1. Community Engagement will become the Driver of Local Media
2. Mobile + Local advertising = Penny Saver 2.0
3. Mobile + Advertising + Pubsubhubbub = Alert systems
4. Advertising as Content
5. Everybody becomes a marketer, and some will become sales closers
6. Everybody can become a traveling sales person
7. Virtual socializing and Webinar ubiquity
8. The grass roots Web
9. The stream is more important than website
10. Curation is the new syndication
11. A new era of open soc

The City of Stockholm has decided to support and work together with SIME as the event contributes to the positioning of Stockholm towards the international ICT community, and therefore strengthens the city as one of the world’s leading ICT region.“SIME correlates well to our ambition in developing Stockholm’s excellent reputation as a leading knowledge region. SIME is a well established meeting place for entrepreneurs and innovators within new media and an initiative which we will support," said Sten Nordin, Mayor of Stockholm.

Result and four individual Result partners have acquired 100% of the shares in Spray.se (former Lycos), one of Europe´s pioneer brands on the web - with a portal business, a leading site in the fun and flirt segment with 800,000 members and Sweden’s largest independent mail service with close to 400,000 users. The same conglomerate also acquired another of the true Swedish household brands, Passagen.se, the largest blog portal and forum, with 830,000 unique weekly vistors. The sellers were media house Allers and directory guide publisher Eniro. 

The first spring edition of SIME simply had to take place in sunny Barcelona. Some quotes and reviews here, here, and here, and a whole lot of videos from the hosting event, Día del Emprendedor, here.

Our new guy in Turkey, Bülent Boytorun, started his career as a project manager at Show TV. Later he was part of the management team at Star TV and NTV. Bülent was the founder of Zap Medya, now Turkey's biggest digital agency, and of Bezoone, a successful creative agency.
He is still on the board of Zap Medya & Bezoone.

Gawd - do we love international business, social media and visualization tools! Look here for a story on the making of!

Microsoft has been dreaming up the next Big Things in communication, collaboration and production technologies (once again showing that the most revolutionary characteristics of next generation technologies are in dramatically improved interface design).

The full video and, if things went too fast for you, some stills are here.