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*.