May 2012
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Get Your Buzz Out Loud!
Search any given branded hashtag on Twitter from your favorite shoe brand, music band to your soccer team, and you will see people talking about it. Try to Google the tag or brand, and you will see videos, pictures from various social networks, posted by users, consumers and fans all over the world. Having conversations around your brand is what any company dreams of, but yet only few uses it...
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To share or not to share?
Fans love to engage with their favorite players, and some sport clubs like the Giants encourage their players to do so through Twitter. The benefit is that fans feel more related and more updated, which makes them able to tell a story to friends and other fans - making the game viral.
Sadly some sport organizations are going against the opportunity of user engagement, and instead trying to...
March 2012
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7 Steps To Amplify Your Social Media Buzz
So you acknowledged that people around the world are constantly talking about your brand, your product, your event or your line of business. All this data gets lost if we don’t save it, and as a brand you want to claim your buzz. So if anyone wants to see what people around the world are writing about your brand and the pictures taken, not only on one social network, but across the most...
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Cinco posibilidades para amplificar eventos...
La industria deportiva aun se encuentra renuente para utilizar los medios de comunicación sociales, con el propósito de amplificar eventos y para compartir la experiencia social en estadios y con el resto del mundo. La potencial es notable y alienado en la entraña del deporte, lo cual es, captar la pasión en las comunidades que participan en los eventos deportivos.
Imagina estar en el estadio,...
January 2012
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Five Ways To Amplify Sport Events
The sport industry is still reluctant to utilize social media to amplify their events and to share the social experience at stadiums with the rest of the world. The potential is notable, and aligned to the core purpose of sport - engaging communities of passion.
Imagine sitting at a stadium experiencing the atmosphere that has drawn people to arenas since the time of the gladiators. What we...
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Make it or brake in on YouTube!
YouTube has increasingly become the preferred media channel for upcoming stars, waiting to be discovered. Established artists have reached out to their community of fans, by feeding them on YouTube. Lady Gaga’s producer revealed that their strategy is to produce videos on YouTube to sell concert tickets. Our Founder and CEO, Natasha was interviewed by the national Danish television...
November 2011
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Gignal at Startup Weekend Copenhagen 2011.
The Dream Team.
Friday the 18th. November 2011 our team joined Startup Weekend Copenhagen. We wanted to participate to meet and work with new talents, build a new frontend for our stream and get business strategy feedback. Friday evening after our pitch 8 people were gathered ready to execute. After midnight the weekend was planned and smaller teams organized based on peoples skills.
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October 2011
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There Is No Past & Future - There Is Just A Stream
So said Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick from Wired in June 2011, and we certainly agree! But what is it about the stream, why do we follow it daily on our devices and where will it take us in the future?
We are constantly exposed to tremendous amounts of data across our social networks, when friends and followers distribute pictures, videos, links and messages. The only way we can qualify the...
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Thanks for the testimonial - Startup Week 2011
Gignal was presenting Startup Week 2011 in Vienna last week. On physical screens, on the Startup Week 2011 website and of course on Gignal. Here is their testimonial we received yesterday - thanks guys it was a great event and we were proud to participate and present all your buzz on Gignal!
Gignal + Startup Week was a perfect fit. Tons of pictures were uploaded during these 5 days, the...
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Gignal Powering Startup Week 2011
This week the European startup scene will be taking on Vienna. From several locations the program is stuffed with startup fueled activities, from speaks, startup challenges, pitches and panel discussions. Lots of entrepreneurial mind juice and motivation will be produced in this cultural epicenter - but this week the orchestra will be playing the tunes of building businesses in the world of web.
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June 2011
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Gignal Presenting The U21 European Championship
From June 11-25 2011 Gignal will present the social media buzz created by the audience in- and outside the U21 tournament venues.
The games are played at different locations in Denmark, and the matches will be watched not only at stadiums but also in city squares and other outdoor meetup points.
Gignal will capture the atmosphere and emotions when the audience posts updates on...
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Facebook reaching 700 m. users. Should we be...
Facebook experiences a loss of users in primarily the US, Canada and Russia, this news has hit the headlines of international media including the Danish.
Tuesday our CEO, Natasha Friis Saxberg gave her take to DR News - the Danish television station, on why Facebook experiences a decrease of users in specific countries. The pattern shows that once they reach half the population, their market...
May 2011
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Gignal Presented World Cup 2010 At Ofelia Beach.
We presented the World Cup 2010 Gignal from the Copenhagen soccer festival at Ofelia Beach to more than +165.000 visitors. Gignal was presented in the breaks entertaining the captive audience with the social media buzz from in- and outside the event. The aim was also to attract more participant by spreading the good vibes from the venue.
We presented tweets, photos, video, check-ins and SMS....
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Gignal at Zulu Sommerbio +120.000 audiences.
Every year the Danish event “TV2 Zulu Summer Bio” is touring Denmark presenting outdoor movies from various locations. We presented tweets, check-ins, photos and SMS messages.
We presented the Gignal on the center screen at Zulu Summer Bio, spreading the social media buzz from more than +120.000 audiences.
photo: TV2 Zulu sommerbio
April 2011
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Wanted! Game Changing Test Customers.
One thing we learned throughout the years building startups, is that the best product is build by iterations in close collaboration with real customers and real needs. We have now reached a point with Gignal where we deliver a social media billboard presenting tweets, check-ins, photos and video - from venues and events.
Next step is to add more value to venues, events and through that the...
March 2011
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Twestival statistics for Copenhagen versus Aalborg
Here’s our statistics for Copenhagen Twestival 2011 and Aalborg Twestival 2011. It’s no wonder that Cph has better stats due to the amount of tweeps there.
I did my part in getting more checkins in Aalborg as I six days ago did a short presentation about LBS at University College Nordjylland.
Copenhagen had 100 checkins and 618 tweets where Aalborg had 7 checkins and 286 tweets.
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Let your location do the talking!
Checking in from your location has become far more known after Facebook Places has been launched. There are a broad variety of LBS (Location Based Services) providing information based on your current location. Some finds it brilliant, now information can be filtered based on my location - neat! Others find it creepy - does that mean that “friends” like my employer, wife and other...
February 2011
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Gignal Journal #5
All though we are still surrounded by snow, little bees have had a busy week at Gignal HQ.
We have build new and optimized features including:
- Now we offer pretty links.
- You can add video from Bambuser.
- You can add embedded code to any embeddable service.
- The template design has been improved.
- Choose how many rows of pictures to show in the stream.
- We have exchanged the...
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Gignal Journal #4
All we know is that we know nothing - a startup condition!
To make a long story very short. A brilliant mind and wonderful character gave us new perspective and exactly the criticism you would want - savvy reasoning and ideas to move forward.
So we are back at the drawing board taking a new and more ambitious turn. And how do we know it is the right decision? We don’t! But it feels...
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Gignal Journal #3
Today we have the privilege of presenting the Gignal from TechPitch4.5 at TechHub in London.
TechPitch4.5 is organized by 2Pears, i.e. the two awesome event organizers Petra Johansson and Rassami Hokljungberg, who used to run the TechCrunch Europe Events.
Follow the Gignal from this great event, moderated by Mike Butcher (TechCrunch Europe), and spiced up with great speakers as, Wendy Tan...
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Gignal Journal #2
We had set up an #egypt stream, aggregating tweets and photos. We deliberately excluded check-ins, so we wouldn’t expose anyone at the scene. It went very well for a day, but then the database crashed - we fixed it- and then it crashed again.
So to look at the bright side, It turned out to be a good test case, due to the large amounts of data. We already planned to implement MongoDB,...
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Gignal Journal #1
We have decided to take our own medicine and share what it’s like to build a startup – complete with all the thrills, pain and concept chaos that rule at Gignal.
Since this is our first journal entry, allow me to introduce my life and business partner - Jacob. Gignal is Jacob’s brainchild and he is also the lead developer.
Yours truly, Natasha, takes care of most of the front end...
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Day Of Departure - Live from Egypt
We have made a page presenting all live tweets and picture from Egypts - Day Of Departure.
This is the Twitter and photo Analytics from Egypt within a 14 hour range, showing that there is an average of 108 tweets per hour since 11 PM last night.
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Gignal Presenting LIFT11 Live From Geneva
Follow LIFT11 on Gignal - http://bit.ly/LIFT11 Presenting tweets, photos and check-ins. #LIFT11
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Present & Spread Conference Buzz.
Geo-location has undoubtedly been the tech darling of 2010, and we have probably only seen the beginning, many more “must have” geo-location services will rise in the years to come. And we intend to provide one of them - with Gignal.
We basically aggregate data from a specific location or tag - to show what people are talking about at events. There is no difference from creating an...
January 2011
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New Media Days launch
We launched Gignal in closed Beta at New Media Days on November 9-10, 2010. 800 participants, 2 days, 3 locations - all around and about New Media.
This was an excellent case to launch since we had the opportunity to present and aggregate from more locations, all the social services that we support, on physical screens at the event, on Gignal’s site and through our widget on New Media...
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7 must-have geo apps
1. Foursquare - Checkin at a location and share it with your friends, including tips, special offers and photos.
2. Layar - Augmented reality browser/platform. Hold your phone in front of you and see where the nearest tweet is posted, where to buy Pizza - or what your search might be.
3. Lonely Planet iPhone City guides as we know them.
4. Google Maps - An oldie but certainly a goody.
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TEDxCopenhagen on Gignal
Gignal powered TEDxCopenhagen on November 30, 2010. Presenting social media buzz from Foursquare, Gowalla, Flickr, Twitpic, Yfrog and Twitter, from in and outside the conference.
TEDxCopenhagen testimonial. “With Gignal you create a meta universe around your event and make it possible for people online to take part in the event through pictures, tweets and check-ins. This makes sense for...
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year wishes to everyone that supported us in 2010! Our first customers trusting our product. Savvy people sharing their thoughts and feedback to our vision. Event end users for expressing the value they experienced. All together motivating, challenging and driving us to where we are today.
We have come far in 2010, from an idea in January 2010 to our launch today, but we are still...
December 2010
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Gignal - from startup limbo to company launch.
We are about to kiss 2010 goodbye, which is always a bit sad since time flies to rapidly, but it is also exciting to see what the new year will bring. For us 2010 has been a journey with detours, ups and downs, frustrations and thrills - a typical startup experience.
In January 2010 we made the first version of Gignal, because we needed it at NordicMeetup, which we co-organize. It actually...
November 2010
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Danish Media Conference on Gignal
Danish Media Conference 2010 powered by Gignal - gathering 900 journalists and media professionals.
Gignal presented the social media buzz from the conference, with geo- and hashtags from Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitpic, Yfrog, Flickr and Twitter. The content was presented on screens at the venue and on Gignal’s site.
Testimonial by - Troels Johannesen, advisor of communication.
”At...
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New Media Days Launch
We have the great privilege of presenting New Media Days on November 9 2010. This means intensive work, lots of coffee and excitement to launch our next version. Any ideas and input are most appreciated.
See you at New Media Days - offline and online!
October 2010
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Focus groups
Last week we held two focus-groups to examine and understand the reality of our target group. But first we had to define which target group to choose. Therefore we invited representatives from Music Events and Conferences. We learned a lot from both groups, and our primary choice turned out to be conferences. The decision is based on the fact that conferences are network and content driven...
September 2010
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We got a logo
And the winner of our logo competition is….. matacurut:
Thanks to everyone who participated at crowdSPRING.
July 2010
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