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Bonnier Hack Day Ends With A Bang

By Bert Menninga on 2010-03-12
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Eleven promising business ideas emerge from Bonnier Hack Day, with one clear winner.

After 24 hours of solid creativity, Bonnier Hack Day ended with a round of three-minute pitches from the 11 teams that made it through the night, still fired up despite the long hours of work.

A team from Sydsvenskan won the day, with their "Citypedia" concept, which combined data on any city from gowalla/4sq, Twitter and Google along with users' own ratings to create a city wiki with an app for iPhone and advertising. Team members included Per-Olof Bondesson, Johannes Fosseus and Sara Johannesson.

Bonnier Hack Day, Part One

By Bert Menninga on 2010-03-11
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Bonnier Hack Day started at noon, and by 4:30 p.m. with some 21 hours to go, the hacker teams are hard at work.

Some 15 teams kicked off Bonnier Hacker Day with a sandwich, a cola and a bit of networking before sitting down to a two-hour open-mic session with a range of developers. Each team will be developing a business concept or technical solution over a 24-hour period, starting at 2 p.m. "The goal of Hack Day is not just to inspire those taking part, but to provide a chance for people to network within Bonnier in a unique way and come up with new ideas," says Paulina Modlitba Söderlund of Bonnier R&D, organizer of the event.

Hack Day Begins

By Bert Menninga on 2010-03-11
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At 12 noon CET an open mic session kicks off Bonnier Hack Day, with among others Chris Thorpe of the Guardian, Per Åström of TV4 and Ted Valentin of 24 Hour Business Camp.

Bonnier Hack Day is here at last. The day starts with an open mic session – speakers include Chris Thorpe (the Guardian), Per Åström (TV4),  Jyri and Ulla-Maaria Engeström (Thinglink), Saplo, Jayway and Ted Valentin. At 2 p.m., the competition begins in earnest.

Bonnier R&D Organizes Hack Day

By Bert Menninga on 2010-02-18
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Bonnier R&D's upcoming Hack Day is not your usual conference.

Hack Day speaker Ted Valentin

Call it an unconference. That's how Paulina Modlitba Söderlund of Bonnier R&D describes the upcoming March 11-12 Hack Day, an event that aims to develop new business ideas. "Instead of the usual set of speeches and presentations, the Hack Day is more about getting interesting people together and inspiring them to create something new and make the event exciting and worthwhile," she says. In this case, the Hack Day will be for 30-40 participants working in 10-15 teams.