Enough of second degree live blogging, I’m finally here live at Podcamp Europe 2007 =)

Had a a little trouble finding the venue at first, seeing as the speaker areas were tucked away inside another, larger conference here at the Stockholm Conference Center in Älvsjö.

Managed to catch the end of Sriram’s speech about the blogging culture in Singapore. Okay, not really, but just the Q&A bit. Seemed that the (predominantly Swedish) audience were pretty curious about the blogging culture in Singapore. One point thatI managed to catch was the mention that companies in Singapore didn’t have much of an internet strategy. Sorry Sriram, I have to disagree there.

Quite a number of companies in Singapore actually do have an Internet strategy. They put up websites, they put up web forms, allow users to contact them over email and MSN and Skype.. but then again, a lot of companies (and some government agencies) are still stuck in Web 0.5. Static pages, flashing animated GIF graphics. Urgh.

But more on that later..

Listening now to Daniel Ekstram of ReadSpeaker

Impressive technology by the creators of Festivox, the opensource speech synthesis engine.

Popular webstandard blogs like 465BereaStreet and axbom.se use ReadSpeaker’s technology to covert their blogposts into audio podcasts. Guess audible renditions of blog posts really lend quite a lot to the issue of accessibility. (Speaking of which, Roger Johansson of 465BereaStreet did a very insightful talk at Connection07 in Göteborg earlier this March which discussed web standards and accessibility).

1603:

Now Odd Moe is up talking about how to attract investors to your new media startup.

So what makes a New Media startup?

The team? The business model?

Now he’s asking for business models from the audience members.

Update: Turns out Odd Moe is CEO of Seed Forum, Norway

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