The believer

HemOnline didn't win the Award for Best e-Commerce Company at the Scandinavian Interactive Media Event (SIME 06) last week. (It went to TailorShirts.)

I didn't have the opportunity to visit the event, but below are some reports from the blogosphere.
   - Photos on flickr or Glife  
   - Lotta about Tariq Krim and Netvibes
   - Martin Varsavsky entry on his speach (founder of the free WiFi network fon)
   - Lummaland (in German)
   - The winners of the SIME Awards

The Swedish residential mortgage lender SBAB (www.sbab.se) launched a residential information service (named "Storstadsguiden") this Friday. It's a free service that shows medium price per square meter for apartments in Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö.

Each town is divided in 15 - 30 sub markets. Each sub markets has a value based on actual transactions provided by Ljungqvist Information, which also runs the comparable sales service Ljungqvist (previously named treF).   

The pressrelease is found here (in Swedish).

The Swedish mobile operator 3 (www.tre.se) becomes one of the first operators world wide to offer commercial Internet connection using High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA).

Starting at 1,2 MBit/s but in January 2007 upgrading to 3,6 Mbit/s.

Easier then ever to "Go Beduin".

The "Going Bedouin" story from Greg Olsen, the CTO of Coghead, has been around for a while but I really found it interesting. Especially since I tried it myself from the Caribbean and many other places.

However, you don't need to go that far away to see the benefits. It amazes me to see that, in year 2006, people still set an auto-message in their Outlook when they are going on business trips!

How much do they miss not having a laptop using connections over 3G or a WiFi network at a hotel or coffee shop?
 (3G runs very well in Sweden providing a mobile 0,4 MB connection, soon 1,5 MB)

Hemnet, the leading residential listing service in Sweden, has upgraded their mapping service.

The new (highly) improved service is provided by Hitta.se, a national "yellow paper" service which has focused highly on the mapping functionality to attract visitors.

The pressrelease is found here (in Swedish).