CEO in contest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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)