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Last week, I had the pleasure of being invited out to Finland by Finnfacts on a whirlwind tour of new and established Finnish start ups. I was also delighted to attend the renown Nordic Technology Conference MindTrek, joined by other prominent figures from the international web and technology scene.

Over the next few days I’ll be sharing thoughts and details of some of the companies we visited, these include Floobs, RuntoShop and Muxlim. Though, for the moment, I’d like to share my perspective on the Finnish startup scene and community as a whole.

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2009 October thenextweb blog_article Finland Startup Ecosystem startups business Finnish tech technology start_ups companies new

Online sharing and blogging service Posterous has been getting a lot of attention recently. The development team is adding features regularly and it’s fast becoming the best way to share content with all your different social services while also keeping it all in one place too. The best bit is you can do it all via email.

With so many ways to use Posterous it can be difficult to keep track of them all. Here we’ll take you through everything you need to know about it and suggest a range of ways you can use it to make your online life easier

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2009 August thenextweb blog_article posterous sharing blogging service social networking social_networking media social_media how-to howto info guide popular

Facebook today announces the relaunch of its Publisher tool; the photo, video and status updating field available to you above your news stream and profile pages.

Up until now, you have only been able to share content amongst your Facebook friends. Today, that changes with the release of an option called “who do you want to tell?”

The option makes it possible to share your posts with everyone – not just your friends – but even more interesting however is that you can share items or updates with a specific friend list too.

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2009 June thenextweb blog_artice news facebook new feature share stuff content sharing social media social_media

Facebook have announced via URL http://facebook.com/username that on Saturday 13 June you’ll be able to select a username for your Facebook account.

“Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT (check here for your time) on Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/. You’ll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time.”

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2009 June thenextweb news Facebook Vanity URLs url profile username choose select

Facebook today launched a brand new way of keeping up to date with your friends and fan pages, via SMS. After setting up your SMS settings, you’ll see a “subscribe via SMS” link below the profile pictures on profiles and fan pages. A small but extremely significant addition…Why? Let me explain

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2009 June thenextweb news Facebook new way feature SMS messges message communication twitter subscribe via

Aardvark Media’s Director of Technology, Vidar Hokstad brings to us possibly the first Google Wave Gadget Emulator ever. As Vidar states on his website he added a “tiny little bit of JavaScript to re-implement just barely enough of the gadget API to allow some of the demo gadgets to run side by side in two iFrames”.

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2009 June thenextweb news blog_article Google Wave Google_Wave Gadget Emulator gadgets iFrames iFrame

After admittedly only trying the new Microsoft search engine for 20 minutes, there really is no question in my mind that whilst Bing may have it’s 15 minutes of fame, the majority of users will unquestionably remain with Google - as will I.

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2009 June thenextweb blog_article news Bing search_engine search engine Microsoft