För en vecka sedan satt jag, Ted & David en vecka hos våra kompisar på Winston Design och jobbade med Auktionsfynda.se. Sajten har nu varit igång i knapp ett år och rullar på ganska bra, därför tänkte vi att den nu var värd en ansiktslyftning men också lite nya funktioner. Här kommer en liten summering:

En funktion som vi länge funderat över är bevakning av sökord, det är väldigt praktiskt för de ovanliga föremålen som bara dyker upp några gånger per år. Hos oss är det speciellt värdefullt då vi letar igenom ett antal auktionssajter, fyndaren får alltså direkt reda på när något auktioneras ut, oavsett var. Börja bevaka ett sökord genom att skriva i din e-postadress till höger på sökresultatsidan. kl 15:00 varje dag kommer sedan ett sammanställt mail med de sökord som vi hittat auktioner för. Smart va?

Den andra större funktionen är en bättre bildvisare. Bilder är ju så otroligt viktigt när man bedömer om en auktion är värd att buda på. Därför vill vi göra det enklare för användarna att snabbt titta igenom många bilder snabbt och enkelt.

När man klickar på en auktionsbild så visas den nu i större format i en sk. “lightbox”, sen kan man enkelt använda piltangenterna för att snabbt bläddra sig igenom alla bilder för sökresultatet. Och när man hittat det man vill buda på, ja då är det bara att klicka på länken direkt under bilden.

Sist men inte minst så har vi uppdaterat både startsidan och sökresultatsidan genom att göra dem enklare och mer överskådliga. Hoppas ni gillar uppdateringarna och kom mer än gärna med feedback och tankar.

Needless to say, it was awesome!

First me, David & Jorge are going to show off our 24 hour hack Carbon.to at the KTH Innovation Pavilion during Love Stockholm next week. It’s a small carbon converter that we hacked together at EcoMo in London last year. We’re demoing, explaining the concept and telling tourists and other visitors how and why we made it. We will be there Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Swing by!

Two weeks later I’m giving a short talk on Music Hack Day and why I think It tells something about the future of music and the music industry. The talk is during the Trigger Creative Conference which is a music industry gathering that takes place in Borlänge two days before the Peace & Love rock festival. With me I will also bring Patrik Axelsson from BuddyJ and Alexis Fellenius from Holodeck, both of the participated at Music Hack Day Stockholm earlier this year.

I’m looking forward to both events and It’s especially exciting that the music industry is waking up and at least trying to be interested in their own future.

With Health you can collect test results, enter medication details, allergies and give access to all of it to your doctor. For me it just became extremely useful since the release of Bant - A iPhone blood glucose tracker for people with diabetes. I’ve been a diabetic for quite some time and over the years i’ve tried a bunch of different trackers and systems. The most advanced being a special SMS software for a horrible Nokia phone with an even worse UI. But thanks to Bant with it’s sleek UI and amazing integration with Google Health i can now enter my glucose values with ease, have them synchronized to the cloud and instantly published, with a nice graph of course, for my doctor and nurse to monitor.

I must say, this is extremely, extremely useful and cool.

Our goal was to create a hack around newspapers or magazines, but it proved quite hard to figure out something simple enough. So we went for the somewhat classic idea of browsing news with images. We wanted it to look extremely slick and fit perfectly on the iPad so for us this was a pure UI hack.

Pictoriala automatically scrapes images and articles from dn.se, svd.se and guardian.co.uk using their API’s and YQL. It then displays the images in a flexible grid and allows for users to get a big view and the headline of the surrounding article. We think it’s a really cool way of browsing news. It will be released on the web before the end of next month.

The hack was nicely organized and featured some really great people, especially Chris Thorpe from The Guardian and Ulla-Maaria & Ryan from Thinglink. We ended up as finalists in the competition but the prize went to Citypedia, although, some people thought we should have won

All in all, a very good hackday!

Read (and listen to) more about the event here.

• Ny teknik (Swedish)
• Spotify
• RjDj
• SR will air a short interview with me tomorrow, tune in for some first class rambling

Here is a quick preview of the spaces as well, looks quite nice don’t you think!?

1. Swedish Television (SVT) released a mobile version of their awesome on demand service SVT Play. It includes support for all the major platforms such as Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile and is, of course, completely free. A long with the browser version SVT also announced their iPhone app for Play which was built by a team from Doberman that includes yours truly

2. Swedish Radio (SR) released an much anticipated update of their iPhone application. It now features live radio as well as on demand shows from their archives. Their broadcasts are extremely good, free of ads and free to listen to.

3. SR also decided to join the hacker conference Music Hack Day that me and Mattias Arrelid from Spotify are organizing in Stockholm early next year. This is probably the coolest thing of the three. They have decided to not only join but also release a new API before the event. The API includes access to track listings, program listings and more. And as mentioned, they have an extremely valuable archive so hopefully this spawns a range of new and interesting mashups and web services.

Needless to say, Swedish public service organizations are stepping up their game and making our money worth. Kudos!