Jon Lund is a contributing analyst and commentator at Danish daily Politiken, is chairman of the board at Danish Online News Association and has held honorary positions as member of the board of IAB Europe, member of the Danish Ministry of Cultures advertising forum, member of the board of directors of the Forum of the Danish Media, member of ICC Denmark’s marketing committee. He holds a masters degree in Political Science from University of Aarhus and has worked with internet since starting his own agency in 1995.
The avisen.dk fairytale keeps evolving these days. Once the digital version of the double-free printed newspaper Nyhedsavisen, avisen.dk was launched with bells and whistles three years ago, promising to change the power-balance between journalists and… Læs mere »Just-relaunched as on-the-job-journalism news-site Avisen.dk has not taken off neither traffic and concept-wise
Read in this issue of Digital News: General news-sites: cracking open variations and drivers of growth in an all-on-average category. + Analysis: Openness key to huge and steady lift in traffic for intellectual niche news-website… Læs mere »General news-sites: cracking open variations and drivers of growth in an all-on-average category. New digital view: Life on the Danish Internet, August 31-September 6, 2009.
After having left the FDIM (IAB Denmark) in order to set up my own consultancy I also left the newmediatrends.fdim.dk-blog. Instead I’ve opened up www.jon-lund.com – and this is where I’m continuing my blogging activities… Læs mere »Now blogging at jon-lund.com (Technorati: it’s zr7fxyepwc)
What’s the secret behind the success of the mp3-format, the unmanned MQ-1Predator military aircraft and the top-selling Flip Ultra camcorder? The answer is: they’re all lousy: The sound of MP3 is flat, the Predator is… Læs mere »When it really plays, flies and kicks ass “good enough” doesn’t do it
Yesterday’s stories of how patients harasses Danish nurses through Facebook, made me think: we need to communicate the tools that allow users to handle their own online security better if we want the networked social… Læs mere »Guide: How to secure your facebook profile (in Danish)
When I looked a the web-stats for last week nothing really jumped to my eyes. But then I took a second look, and suddenly this pattern emerges: among the many very different sites which experience… Læs mere »Uh, crisis… let’s go (secondhand) shopping! Is that how it works?
Read in this issue of Digital view: Jobseeking & secondhand buying and selling grows. + Analysis: Danes: the crisis is here to stay – shop away the cheap way. + Perspective: The internet takes on… Læs mere »Digital view: Life on the Danish Internet, August 24-30, 2009 – recruitment and secondhand shopping
Just published my new “Digital view: Life on the Danish internet august 17-23 2009″, and this is fascinating I think: Half of the Danish population are using Facebook. More specific: 2,47 mio Danes visited facebook… Læs mere »Facebook crosses the generation gap, spreads transparency
Read in this issue of Digital view: Once-giant Danish social networking site Arto.com shrinks drastically – misses chance of back-to-school comeback Perspective: New generation Social networking crosses the generation gap, paving way for development of… Læs mere »Digital view: Life on the Danish Internet, August 17-23 2009 – arto.com vs facebook
Last week (33, 2009) was outstanding for Danish financial sites. The financial sites of Danish printed newspapers Børsen, Berlingske and – particularly – Jyllandsposten experienced a substantial lift in user activity. Users visited the financial… Læs mere »Danes soaked in information