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Nordic Media Festival Recommendations

Fri, 07 May 2010 10:11:00 +0200

Thursday

09:15 - Fanthomas! Oh my God (DG)
10:15 - Mobilartisten [E] (KK)
11:15 - Innovate! [E] (KK)
13:15 - Fra Haugesund til Hollywood (DG)
14:30 - Solheims siste spådommer (KK)
15:30 - Slik overlever mediene web 2.0 [E] (PG)
16:30 - Grafikk i verdensklasse [E] (KK)

Friday

09:15 - Fotballkampen (PG)
10:15 - Er jeg meg på nett? (DG)
11:15 - Share the moment - ESC (PG)
13:15 - PR i praksis (PG)
14:30 - Fakta og fantasi i sosiale medier [E] (KK)
15:30 - Apps: redning eller hodepine (DG)
16:30 - Radioresepsjonen ruler (PG)

Location: DG: Dovregubbens hall. KK: Klokkeklang. PG: Peer Gynt

Make your own list by having a look at the official program plan on their web site or the mobile web-app. Netthoder.no has also published a great list of recommendations.

iPhone and First Tueday

Thu, 06 May 2010 14:26:00 +0200

Kamikaze Media, represented by Kjetil Horneland, held a talk at First Tuesday in Bergen on the 4th of May. We talked about the possibilities regarding iPhone applications. All companies have different content, distribution needs or business models. When going mobile there are several approaches available on many platforms. We talked about the advantages and disadvantages by going native or making mobile web-apps.

(PS: Presentation is in norwegian only)

First Tuesday Mai 2010 - Kamikaze Media AS om web-apps

View more presentations from Kamikaze Media AS.

The future of publishing

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:07:00 +0200

I was lucky to attend this event last week. Several interesting subjects were up for debate, but I'd like to summarize two of these; Formats and Content, and Business and Politics.

Formats and Content

The publishing industry is currently looking at the music industry and how their content has been distributed from the early digital days to the current always-available content online. Before the internet, both publishers and musicians created added value to their distributed materials, for instance Enhanced CDs or Personal CD-ROMs were highly popular. When the internet became mainstream, these products died overnight because the buyers weren't really interested in the limited and after a while outdated added value on for instance a CD-ROM. What's evident in later years is that the music buyers just want easily accessible music.

How do we get our content out to our readers? The market for online publishing is still very young, and publishers don't know which platforms or devices to turn to or which qualities on each product that will fit their needs. Being unable to target all of them, many publishers sit on the fence while waiting for a suitable all-round electronic marketplace to emerge. They agreed that an open platform allowing them to create content using a tool that caters their existing skill-sets is desperately required.

What will such an online publishing format require? Several publishers at I:P suggested a modified version of the EPUB format, using HTML5. One could keep creating bundled content files, and HTML5 is a highly development friendly environment. Having a single standard format, the publishers can easily be allowed to deliver content to multiple platforms. Chances are that readers will consume content on a mobile device such as HTC Desire, iPhone, iPads. We're at the start of a new reality where telecommunications and media will merge into a heavily content consuming market; the mobile internet.

Business and Politics

For this to work, we need to create a sustainable business model. Where does the money come from? By creating content with interactive experiences to be distributed online, will the costs be a part of marketing, or a part of the creative process of making a product? Who will cut their losses - the publishers or the writers?

Today, many publishers are sharing their content for free, online, to boost their paperback sales. This may have worked previously when there weren't any real possibility of making money by selling large quantities of ebooks. Publishers will soon realize that the freemium model won't work on publishers either. As any other freemium web service, they end up devaluating their own product online. Why would customers pay for something later on, when they get it for free right now?

It's a learning process to figure out what will work and what won't. Looking at digital distributing, the trend points to simple transactions and simple content. Spotify is an example that changed user behavior overnight, leaving the user to crave the instant consuming of the musical content itself, not the extra features surrounding it.

Godt nytt år fra alle oss i Kamikaze Media

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:28:00 +0100

2009 har vært et år med økonomiske utfordringer i bransjen, og vi kan med glede meddele at vi ved utgangen av året har fortsatt stigende vekst.

For vår del er 2010 den mest spennende tiden i Kamikaze Medias historie. Vi begynner året med å signere en treårig samarbeidsavtale med Norwegian Hull Club, noe som bekrefter vår sterke faglige posisjon i webmarkedet. Samtidig som avtalen er strategisk viktig for oss i Kamikaze Media, er det svært gledelig å bli valgt for å gjennomføre forretningskritiske løsninger.

Kamikaze Media og Gosu Design fortsetter å signere viktige avtaler som styrker vår samlede ledende posisjon i skjermbasert interaksjonsdesign- og implementering. Vi har noen spennende nyheter som vi ser fram til å dele.

Vi har allerede tatt fatt på arbeidsoppgavene.

Mir website

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:59:00 +0100

Mir is a specialized design agency creating images of unbuilt architectual designs, specs and concepts through images and animation. Mir is located in Bergen, but work with clients all over the world.

Mir came to Kamikaze Media with some raw sketches and wireframes. Through workshops and brainstorms, we created and implemented the portfolio site with a high visual focus.

Check it out here

Mentions:

Congratulations to the newlyweds

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:29:00 +0200

The wedding was a blast, and was filled with family and friends. Kjetil and Kristin are now enjoying their well-deserved honeymoon. We congratulate the Horneland couple and wish them a relaxing vacation.

Gosu Design

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:46:00 +0200

Gosu Design delivers strategic design competence and consultancy to TV stations, production houses, IPTV vendors and other business in the digital industry.

Gosu wanted something stunning that would work well on a 16:9 screen when designing their new web presence. Having done many brilliant projects over the years, it was vital to be able to stream high quality video and view case studies easily. The site itself was done in Flash and combined with a Silverstripe CMS backend.

Kamikaze Media expands

Mon, 04 May 2009 08:34:00 +0200

The boy weighs 4,2kg and is 52cm tall. Mother and son are doing great and Asle is proud and happy.

- "He is the perfect future addition to the Kamikaze team" says chairman of the board, Carl Mathisen. Everyone in Kamikaze Media congratulates mother and father. We are all looking forward to meeting the little guy.

New website

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:29:00 +0200

For a while now we've been discussing our services and how we describe them on the web. With our relaunch, we have grouped them in new understandable categories. Hopefully, this redesign help our readers to easily understand who we are and what we do.

Services

In the main menu above, you will find all our services available from any page. We will give you a short introduction here as well.

Web Development

We specialize in delivering high-end web products. Our web technology is powered by an efficient and scalable infrastructure, built by our team with years of experience in web standards and system development. Read more about our web development service.

Design

Our design team is specialized in delivering high-end screen based design. They work closely with our developers and understand how to combine the technical aspects of corporate identity and branding, with creativity and usability. Read more about what our designers can do for you.

Social Media

Over the last 4 years we've developed a social media platform, Pangea. Pangea is a module-based social CMS, which includes all the features necessary to create a lively social Internet site. Read more about what our product can do for your organization.

IPTV

Few other agencies have any real track record in such a new an relatively uncharted area as IPTV design and implementation. Over the last two years, Gosu Design and Kamikaze Media have been working with norwegian and international clients providing interface design and implementation with great success. Read more about our IPTV and broadcast interface services.

New clients and projects

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:13:00 +0100

Communities

Kamikaze Media has started the year with community enabled web sites for interest organizations such as Brak and Proscen. With these releases, Pangea now sports three new modules for your organizational needs.

Market: The market module allows you to specify ad category hierarchies, as well as the ability to design ads; set up your own ad type for real estate or jobs.

Project: The project module lets our users upload portfolio projects directly to their profiles, or the organizations they have connections with. To illustrate, here is our Brak project at Design Region Bergen.

Report: The need for a more advanced reporting system has emerged as our communities grow in size and activity. The new system enables a member to report another user entirely, or to report any entry submission on the web site.

Web Applications and Music Video

In other news, we are working with web applications for McDonald's, Noroff and Narvesen. Our design team is hard at work on the new profile and music video for The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band.