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Silver Lion Award for fb.se

2009-06-25T09:43:00.003+02:00

Happy news arrived this morning!
The site for Forsman & Bodenfors (www.fb.se) was awarded a Silver Lion in the Cannes Lions Festival.
Congratulations to all winners!
http://work.canneslions.com/cyber/

Cannes Lions

2009-06-23T21:11:00.002+02:00

Our production for Forsman & Bodenfors (www.fb.se) made it to the Cyber Shortlist in Cannes Lions this week. Now we are crossing our fingers for it to make it one step further.

Check it out: http://www.fb.se
Cannes Lions Cyber Shortlist: http://work.canneslions.com/cyber/

Fifth & Seventh place in this months Resume

2009-06-11T15:09:00.004+02:00

This months Resume contest for web gave us a 5th place for Grin Widget "Skynet Take Over" Widget and a 7th place for Ving "Mallorca" website.
We are of course very happy about that =)

The Grin widget was made together with Åkestam Holst
See it here.

Ving Mallorca website was made together with F&B
See the website here.

Bronze awarded in One Show

2009-05-11T16:58:00.004+02:00

Last weekend the One Show Interactive awards ceremony took place. Forsman & Bodenfors website was awarded a bronze pen. We are very happy to see our work being recognized and we also want to congratulate F&B that took three more bronze awards for AMF "MMS", Wasabröd "Sandwich" and IKEA "Come into the closet. Let's dance".

Check out the F&B website here »

Nominated...

2009-04-17T09:29:00.003+02:00

This year we have two nominations in One Show.
One is for the F&B website(www.fb.se) and the other one is a small app we made for Euro 2008 fotball championship. The application showed results and videos in realtime.
If you ran it at work and someone was coming you had a shortcut to transform the application to an excel spreadsheet so no one would know you were doing non work related activities =)

Golden egg awards is over for this year

2009-04-03T10:09:00.002+02:00

I bet there are lots of people in the media business in sweden that have headaches this morning. The party last night was going on until early this morning =)

We got a diploma for our nominated production "Sveriges skönaste dialekt" and partly also a silver egg. The campaign "Born to be cheap" for Tele2 got a silver and we helped out creating all online campaign banners... approx. one thousand of those were made.

Congratulations to all winners, it was really fun to watch on livestream (bambuser)

Nominated in Guldägget

2009-03-18T20:44:00.003+01:00

Today we found out that one of our website productions is nominated in the swedish commercial contest Guldägget (Golden Egg). The production was made last year for Swedish Radio called "Sveriges skönaste dialekt". You can read more about Guldägget here and read some more about the website here.

New site for Forsman & Bodenfors!

2009-02-09T13:56:00.007+01:00

Forsman & Bodenfors new website is released.
The site is built with the intention to give the visitors quick and easy access to the whole F&B portfolio. To get easy access, the whole site is built around a visual search engine that gives instant feedback (autocomplete with images) when searching. Enjoy watching F&B's work in the gallery with easy navigation with arrow keys or navigate traditionally with your mouse. There is also lots of amusing facts and statistics about the site, most frequent searched words, who is the most contacted person etc.

Visit the site here: www.fb.se

Some releases

2009-02-04T09:45:00.009+01:00

Wrapping up the last quarter of 2008, we really worked our butts of on a vast variety of web sites, design concepts and a truckload of banners. The bulk of the projects where in cooperation with a few of our business partners, but we also had a couple of outsiders and even a request from the local municipal office.

For starters, we produced the official site for renowned Swedish actor Stefan Sauk. The site is a presentation of the actor and his work and contains movie clips, a picture gallery, biography, interviews and more.
Visit the site here: www.sauk.se.

Lundin Fastighetsbyrå is a real estate agency based in Gothenburg. They wanted to renew their old site and we where happy to oblige.
The result can be viewed here: www.lundin.se.

Libero is one of the leading Swedish producers of diapers and other baby products such as baby oil, wet wipes etc. Along with one of our business partners, we produced a micro-site in flash for their latest product campaign.
View it here: www.libero.se.

One of our business partners (our next door neighbour actually) came to us with a request to produce web sites for a few of their customers (all local companies). They provided the design and we nailed down the construction and back end programming.
Check them out here: www.valutec.se, www.volantic.se, www.simmine.com, www.optronic.se.

Skellefteå Kommun (the local municipal office) web where in desperate need for a overhaulin', and we provided them with the design and layout for the new and improved site. Here you can check out some of the sketches:

Part of our daily routines consists of banner productions for one of our business partners. In November 2008 we set what propably is a world record for banners when the swedish tele-communication company Tele2 launched a massive campaign spanning all medias. Around 750 banners where produced during a 10 day span and the hosting bureau had never seen anything like it.

Oh, by the way ... we produced yet another banner campaign with additional landing sites for IKEA just in time for the christmas break.

All in all we just had a great 2008 and are already way deep in new exciting projects that will launch shortly.

CEO in contest

2008-12-16T17:08:00.002+01:00

Our CEO Stefan is participating in Nokias 48h mission. We all want you to vote for him and his friend beginning tomorrow and ending sunday 21st at midnight. Check out his blog if you read swedish. Check out www.nokia.se/48h and cast your vote for Stefan & Eric!
(Voting activates sometime during wednesday 17th)

BRIO campaignsite released

2008-10-07T12:44:00.004+02:00

Last week the brand new stroller "Brio GO" was released. It is an easy to carry stroller that folds together especially designed for parents "on the go".

Check it out: www.brio.se

FF3 + Firebug Bug

2008-09-16T09:12:00.002+02:00

Seems Firefox 3 in combination with addon FireBug does not play well together when loading and using xml. It is not possible to get into any element in the xml. The only option possible was to disable FireBug completely to get the script working. FireBug is one of the bets addons to FireFox and almost everyone at work has that one installed. What a bummer we cant use it on the web application we are developing.

"EM-Bevakaren" took a 6th place

2008-09-16T09:04:00.002+02:00

In Resume's monthly web awards our production "EM-bevakaren" got some recognition. 6th place is really good considering the competition. "EM-Bevakaren" is a pretty simpla application specially designed for the european fotball championship. The application showed live odds, results, video clips and standings in the championship so people could follow everything at work. With a click på the space bar the application masked itself as a quarterly financial report so no one coming close could find out you were more interested in football than your work ;)

Summer release

2008-09-12T11:29:00.002+02:00

One of the largest record stores in sweden is Bengans. The store is located in gothenburg but recently expanded to open a new store in stockholm. Bengans has been online since the late 90's and has always maintained a low profile on the web but with great support, ordering and knowledge behind the scenes. Since june they have been running a new website/shop. Visitors seem to find music quitker and with better accuracy so sales has been going up...

Check it out at: www.bengans.se
(Swedish & english version)

IQ in new clothes

2008-09-12T11:27:00.003+02:00

For some time we have been rebuilding and redesigning www.iq.se to fit their profile even better than before. A couple of days ago we launched their new interface silently. Looks better, feels better, acts better!

Related link: www.iq.se

Pop community released

2008-09-12T11:20:00.003+02:00

After a well deserved summer vacation we are all back in our office now. During the vacation some of us took on a community website together with Forsman & Bodenfors. The young girls that each year goes to a Music camp in sweden can now stay in touch with each other after tha camp is over. There is still lots of stuff to add to the community but on its release today it seems that the kids enjoy it enough for now at least.

Read about the Music camp "Popkollo" at www.popkollo.se
Check out the community at www.popkollo.com
Read some articles from GP, Barometern & Musikwebben
(articles and website in swedish only)

Cyber Silver Lion in Cannes

2008-06-23T13:23:00.002+02:00

We were among the winners last week in Cannes getting a Silver Cyber Lion in Cannes.

Check it out at canneslions.com »
Visit the site »

Summer issue 2008

2008-06-05T15:55:00.003+02:00

The new summer issue tee's just arrived at the office. A new design by our graphic guru Thomas and they look really great. If you happen to stop by and visit our neighbourhood you just might end up owning one ;)

My personal favourite color are the European Football Championship inspired yellow one with blue and brown print on it. You can see me wearing one below...

many colors to choose from...

but i fell for this one...

Everybody needs a Smile(y)

2008-05-23T14:56:00.004+02:00

It has been up and running for a couple of weeks now - the Smiley Factory at Windows Live that is. The website is a small generator that creates smileys to be used in Windows Live Messenger. Its a pretty cool idea and we are happy to see it being used.

There was some trouble reported with the installer on some machines running Vista so if you try it and experiences something unusual just take a screen shot, write down some words on your configuration(s) you think might help and we'll try to duplicate it and fix it. Email thoughts and bugs to support [at] thomson.nu

Design/Advertising agency: Joy
Techniques: Flash AS3, C#, C++ and lots of image mathematics ;)

Check it out: www.windowslive.se/smileyfabriken/ (swedish only)

Flash 9 dirty dirty smuts and some good stuff coming too...

2008-05-09T14:15:00.004+02:00

Flash 9 / AS3 has some issues regarding unloading content that one of our developers pointed out this week. GSkinner writes about it and explains more on the issue.
The impact for us is crucial since almost everything we produce uses loaded content with contained functionality.

Check out GSkinners post "Failure to Unload" here

Next generation flash... Diesel
There are som really interesting news with rendering in 3D , kinematics and other advanced features but what hits us most is the new format for the source - XFL. The flash format specification has never been public but with this new xml formatted source the future opens up. This means that anyone could create a flash authoring tool in javascript or any other language for that matter. Adobe Air anyone? Flash As A Service? Possibilities are endless if only a XFL compiler is available *crossing my fingers and hoping for this to happen*.

New header image

2008-04-16T23:34:00.002+02:00

Just noticed that Andreas wired TIM logotype is on top of our blog. He made it in 3D a while ago between some project and we are thinking about making a real version eventually, would be a nice project for the friday evening beers =)

Firefox & wmode=transparent bug

2008-04-16T15:18:00.002+02:00

I think it was around 2005 we saw this the first time but it seems this odd behaviour is still out there. If you're running Firefox on Windows with a flash embedded with wmode="transparent" any input text fields may not work as expected with all keyboard layouts. Eg. if we want to write "@" with our swedish keyboard we only get a "2". Lots of other characters also seems to not be working correctly. Really weird but lots of people have been blogging about it so it looks like it's a well known bug.

Komatsu Forest web site released

2008-04-16T09:29:00.007+02:00

The brand new web site for Komatsu Forest is launched. The site contains lots of new features and is totally redesigned. The production was a successful collaboration between a good mix of companys where everyone brought in their knowledge to create the best result.
Post-launch there are some more implementations to be done and launches of the site in different languages are also in the pipeline.

Screenshot of old site:

Screenshot after redesign:

Advertising agency: T/R
Creative/Flash: Thomson Interactive Media
Html/CSS/Javascript: Artopod
Implementation in Content Studio CMS: Sogeti (Umea)

Check out the site here: www.komatsuforest.com

New site released

2008-04-04T13:39:00.002+02:00

Just found out that we released the new Västerbottens Ost website. Its a site dedicated to a special cheese from our region. The cheese itself is surrounded with lots of myths about what really makes it taste the way it does. Nobody knows why, not even the producers but it tastes delicious ;)

Check it out at: http://www.vasterbottensost.com/ (Swedish site with english summary)

Diplomas in the Golden Egg

2008-04-04T10:11:00.003+02:00

Yesterday the annual Golden Egg was held in Stockholm. We hade a couple of nominations and we got diplomas for both of them. Great as always to see we have some stuff to add to our awards and this year it was really good quality in all of the nominations so we are very happy about this.

One more award...

2008-03-10T20:27:00.002+01:00

I've just come back from a three week trip in asia to discover some good news. Our production "Sveriges skönaste dialekt" snuck in on an honorable 2nd place at Resumés monthly webbawards. I'm happy that a short campaign like this got noticed...

Check it out here »

SOTD

2008-02-14T14:39:00.002+01:00

Today we got "Site Of The Day" Award for "IKEA - You need a quiet space."

Check it out on thewfwa.com

"Sveriges skönaste dialekt!" released...

2008-01-14T10:44:00.001+01:00

Together with F&B we hace released the competition where everyone can join in and make sure the coolest dialect in sweden. Our country is very long and the dialect differs a lot between the south, middle and north areas... not to mention the obscure dialects of some parts up in the mountains =)

The site - a screenshot

Recording interface - a flash media server is used for the recording.

Check it out at: http://sr.se/p4morgon (swedish only)

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

2007-12-23T00:11:00.001+01:00

We whish you all the best during christmas and new years eve. We have been very busy this autumn and have done lots of work that we never seem to get around publishing here or on our corporate website. Time just is'nt on our side when it comes to maintain our own sites =)

Lately we have been up to...
A campaign site for Systembolaget (Swedish Alcohol Retail Monopoly)
An intro & banner campaing for Sunwing (Ving Travel)
A campaign site for AMF (Pension funding company, to be released early jan. 08)
Some more cool stuff for Swedish Radio (to be published mid jan. 08)

There has been a couple of other projects going on also but most of them are not to be launched until late january so we cannot go into details on them.

We also recruited two more talented programmers. We welcome Nicklas and Mathias who will be working on some application development in C# and PHP. These guys are amazing!

The crew here at TiM are all looking forward to a great 2008 and whish you all the very best!

Award!

2007-11-01T20:59:00.000+01:00

Again we are proud to see another production awarded. Last month we took first place in resume "Web of the month" with "Ving Travel Alert" and this time...

First place for "IKEA Calm bedrooms"!

Hey, we did not think we could do it two months running but we are glad to see our hard work made it happen.

Check out the article on Resume here.
Check out the site here

Ving Travel Widget Awarded 1:st place

2007-09-27T10:24:00.000+02:00

We are very happy to see "Ving Travel Widget" getting the monthly web award from Resume (Swedish Branch Magazine).
Thank you judges!
A bonus for us is that we climbed the "toplist" of swedish bureaus to 6th place.

Get your own Travel Widget (Swedish only)
Resume article (Swedish only)

The Beauty and the Beard

2007-09-20T10:01:00.000+02:00

Found this one, really nice idea and concept.
Enjoy!
http://www.ffk-wilkinson.com/

IKEA "Lugna sovrum" swedish release

2007-09-10T08:05:00.001+02:00

We are happy to se the IKEA "Lugna sovrum" online this morning.
TiM have been working with the site for a while now and it turned out to be just what we expected it to be.
The site contains filmed material where a bedroom is presented in slowmotion from different angles.

A shot from one of the bedrooms.

On this one we worked with Forsman & Bodenfors.
Kokokaka Entertainment also provided some content for the site.
Go check it out: ikea.se/lugnasovrum

STHLM HIO

2007-08-22T14:46:00.000+02:00

All members of the TiM crew was spending some time in Stockholm last weekend. We set our goals high to have a bit of fun and some work as well. We payed a visit to our friends at F&B and we had a great evening =)
We also made a decision to get find more talented people who wants to work with us so if you are great at what you do and want to create something with us, don't hesitate to contact us. (info at thomson dot nu)

Also - congrats to Eric who made his eight hole in one (discgolf) on Järva despite windy conditions!!

Some things we appreciated on our trip...
Ljunggrens - great food and a sweet music trip (Götgatan 38, Söder, Stockholm)
F&B - great people!
Järva - a good discgolf park
Clarion Hotel - Very nice and pretty cheap too

Also thanx to the local law enforcement (polisen) for not having any speed traps during our highway "Smokey & the Bandit" trip.

Tim goes Wakeboarding

2007-08-14T22:06:00.000+02:00

A few of us got together and packed our wakeboards and went out for a couple of hours enjoying ourselves with fun in the water. Kim, Helena and Stefan are beginners and David is quite the semi-pro (if you ask one of the beginners anyways =)
Have a few shots from the evening below, enjoy...

Jumping the wave...

David airborn...

Stefan riding in the sunset.

MySql Stored Procedures Execute Privileges

2007-08-10T11:32:00.000+02:00

Just as a reminder to myself and the Tim Crew into databases I'm posting this.
When using SPs on MySql you need to grant execute privileges to the procedure to actually be able to use it. (IMHO if you can create it you should think one could use it but maybe thats just me.)
GRANT EXECUTE ON PROCEDURE db_name.sp_name TO 'some_user'@'some_host';

You can use wildcards if you like...
GRANT EXECUTE ON PROCEDURE *.* TO 'some_user'@'some_host';

Our new office

2007-08-02T15:02:00.001+02:00

Just thought we would share some pictures from our office as it is almost finished now. We are still missing some frames and canvases on the walls but otherwise we are very happy with the way it turned out. Also we have not got any furniture to our two meeting rooms but we make do a couple of weeks more without them.

Our Ceo's office

Kim at work

A view of the largest room.

Ving Travel Widget released

2007-08-01T11:30:00.001+02:00

A great collaboration between Forsman & Bodenfors, Ving IT and Tim resulted in a small widget that was released in june. The widget shows all last-minute travel destinations and displays them depending on users choice. A quick registration of a user with an email address is required and you are able to create one or more subscriptions with optional filter of destination, departure etc. Widget released in swedish only for now but are planned to be released over all Scandinavia during autumn.

After downloading the widget you just enter your email address.

Here the widget is displaying my choices, I want to go to "anywhere" from Stockholm Arlanda.

Technology used:
Flash 8
.Net Web Services
mProjector

Work group:
Stefan Thomson, Erica Berghagen, David Sandström, Johan Hägglund, lars jansson, Sophia Lindholm, Camilla Miranda, Lotta Isaksson, Peter Skoglund, Greger Andersson, Martin Cedergren, Mattias Sjölinder, John Magnusson.

How about that sunset...

2007-06-20T12:12:00.000+02:00

Sharing a view from "Burehällorna" taken last weekend.
Beautiful enough?

TiM Round the Bay Race

2007-06-15T06:50:00.000+02:00

Taste the wind, the water and the spirit of our crew on an evening sailing in two smaller ships. Having only mild and gusty wind it was a nice evening inspite the low temperature. The crew was divided into two teams. One that was against all odds (not on the CEO team that is) in a red boat and the other team in a green one.

It all started out well with the green boat towing the other since they had no motor on that one.

Well outside the port we set sail and after some tutorials on how to handle the sails we did some manouvering and then we had a few races between two fishnet flags and a portside mark which we rounded. One team wanted to say they won, and well, lets face it... With a dragging propeller on the aft the green boat did not stand a chance in the light winds.

Some pictures are attached and we hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed this wonderful evening in the northern archipelagos of Skellefteå.

Stefan acting as captain... Avast Ye! All hands hoay!

Side by side running the last leg

How come the "winning team" always is 2nd on all photos? Just a thought...

Shiver me timbers! Captain Davy!!

All hope abandon, ye who meets this lad on sea!

Change of environment

2007-05-24T14:19:00.000+02:00

We are about to change our office space during the summer. At the moment they are working on our walls, floors etc and we attached photos on a part of the office. Hopefully they'll be ready for us moving in 1st of july but it looks like it's like any deadline... Chaos until ready ;)

Mammon crushed

2007-04-05T19:41:00.000+02:00

Mammon challenged us at bowling.
None of us have been practicing that for quite a while but why not try it we thought.
You should also need to know that Mammon has their office very close to the bowling center and they practically live there on their spare time.

Who won? We did ofcourse =)

Mammon: Chris, Lars, Mike & Olov

TiM: David, Eric, Kim & Stefan