It is also nice to see local newspapers working more and more with social media. We’ve been working with a lot of local newspapers in the South of Sweden for a long time now (Sydsvenskan, HD, Ystads Allehanda etc) but not in the North, so we’re very happy to welcome Västerbottens-Kuriren to our list of partners.

Happy blogging, Västerbotten!

By helping more than 100 customers with their relation to social media, Twingly has become one of the greatest players in offering real time information in Europe. This is once again proven through the co-operation with BBC and Shownar.

Shownar monitors activity around BBC programmes on the web, and works out which are gaining the most attention. It highlights those gems in the schedules that others have not only watched, but are talking about, and then points you in the direction of those discussions on the web. Twingly provides data from Twitter-like services to help monitor these discussions. You can read more about Shownar at the BBC Internet blog.

With BBC being such a progressive force online, it is great for Twingly to be a part of the frontline for their new services. We are excited to see if Shownar can lead the way in taking the pulse on realtime discussions about TV-programmes.

Notice how happy people get just by jumping! And you get happy just by watching people being happy. Share forward with tag #reboot11.

Music is “Once You Used To” by Gentle Touch, big thanks to Martin Thörnqvist at Songs I wish I had written for allowing us to use it. Check out http://www.songsiwish.com for lots of cool music and vids!

“Whatever you want, just make it happen” was the spirit of Reboot 11 that got me to shoot the video. Go to http://reboot.dk for more info on the conference.

See you at Reboot12!

Cheers,
Martin Källström
CEO Twingly

The Realtime Web has claimed the throne as successor of Web 2.0 and the world is blogging and Tweeting and Facebooking to their hearts’ content. Interesting content deserving your attention might be only seconds or minutes old, and yesterday’s news is since long gone.

In social media, newly published content travels to you propelled by it’s own interestingness and quality. People around you find different ways to say “this is interesting!” and the choice of people you listen to decides what news will reach you and when. Often, you ignore what is coming through. But whenever you spend a few minutes on a new piece of information, you have made a decision based on which people you know already have spent time on it and their subsequent reactions. In the realtime web, this process is ever faster, increasing the freshness and quality of news ending up before your eyes.

On October 1st, 2009, Twingly will join the ranks of web services working together to improve your experience of social and traditional media. With Project Shinobi, we are aiming to provide a more social, more relevant and more realtime experience, integrating with the services you already use. Not only for people that are early adopters of social media, but accessible and immediately valuable for anyone. 

Project Shinobi is underway. Stay tuned.

Anyone interested can apply for a 15-day-trial on their website and test it to the heart’s content. A nice new and useful toy not only for analysts, marketeers or PR-bureaus it seems.

This is what the result page for “Show me all blogs that wrote in English about Bing today/yesterday” on our test account looks like:

They are the second biggest trade union confederation in Sweden with 1.2 million employees in their affiliated trade unions. With Twingly they pioneer as a trade union in becoming transparent in their online communication.

Click here to find a sample of how it looks like at TCO-tidningen (under the article).

FOCUS got launched first on the 18th of January 1993 as a challenger to SPIEGEL and despite all odds - succeeded! Many tried before to get into that position and failed, however Focus’ concept proved to be successful and continued to do so over the last sixteen years. Despite ups and downs in economy and world politics it stands strong and keeps on tickling Germany’s media landscape with its innovative concepts - the latest of which probably being one of the first German media sites online that give it a try with integrating feedback from external bloggers with their content.

We are very confident that it proves to be a viable concept to them, too, and really look forward to supporting them in their further steps to come.

Anyway, always remember to - FOCUS. Not only when blogging ;).

And the response so far has been very positive.

“As the loyal local newspaper reader I am, todays news about GP finally signed a deal with Twingly, was very exciting.” / “Som den trogna lokala tidningsläsare jag är, var dagens nyhet om att GP äntligen har fixat ett avtal med Twingly, oerhört glädjande.” - I huvudet på Pär Gustafsson

“GP have started to Twingle up themselves… and it’s sooo good. Not a day too late!” / “GP börjar twingla upp sig… och detta är såå bra. Inte en dag försent.” - Nemo

Others writing about the news: Signerat Kjellberg, Svensson, Claes Krantz and Göteborgs-Posten themselves.

So Norwegian bloggers, take the opportunity to look outside the national newspapers and check out the blogable content of f-b.no!

Dagen have been very successful in connecting blog links to their site so we believe Vårt Land could do the same!