Scientific publishing can take a very long time. This week, Juho Hamari and I submitted an article on gamification to a scientific journal. We’ve gone through four review rounds since March 2013 and we hope that this fifth submission will finally be accepted. In our article, we anchor gamification in the service marketing literature. We … More What is gamification?
Last week, I met with Quuppa (http://quuppa.com/), a Finnish startup based in Espoo. Quuppa is a Nokia spin-off doing high-accuracy indoor positioning. It was one of the first startups we hosted at EIT Digital’s office at Open Innovation House (You can read more about our Startup Residency Program here). Quuppa’s technology is based on … More Introducing Quuppa
One of my responsibilities at EIT Digital Helsinki is our Co-location Centre (CLC) at Open Innovation House on the Aalto University Campus in Otaniemi. EIT Digital has CLCs in nine different countries across Europe (Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, UK, Spain, and Sweden) and their mission is to foster open innovation by … More EIT Digital Helsinki’s Startup Residency Program
This is an obituary of Peter von Bagh that I wrote on behalf of DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival on September 27th, 2014 Monday brought us sad news: Peter von Bagh, Petteri as we knew him, had passed away on Wednesday September 17th 2014. A great, perhaps the greatest film lover was gone. Petteri’s passing has touched … More Remembering Petteri, the filmmaker
This is a blog post that was published on October 9th, 2007 as a part of “InHIIT” , the blog of researchers working at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT (http://inhiit.blogspot.fi/2007/10/mobile-wom-manifesto.html). If you receive a message on your mobile phone from a good friend of yours, would you open it? Surely. If the message … More Mobile WOM Manifesto
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