I love it when I find these kind of nisch photo- or videoblogs. My Parents Were Awesom is a tumblr blog that shows photographs of parents when they were young, what they did and how they looked. It’s like looking back into the past. This should be something for all you fashion bloggers out there to check out for inspiration! 
Do you want to give your parents some “awesome-cred”? Just send an email to myparentswereawesome@gmail.com with your name and the name of those pictured.
Today we at Urban Lifestyle launched a new site in Swedish called Svisp – Svenskar i Spanien. It’s about Swedes living in Spain. Since we ourselves are a lot in Spain at the moment due to a few upcoming projects we realized that it would be interesting to write and do videos about other Swedes in Spain.
Välkomstvideo för Svisp.se from Urban Lifestyle on Vimeo.
Besides the blog one of the most important parts of Svisp is Svisp TV, a Internet show about … yes you guessed it, Swedish people living in Spain. I will mostly do video interviews with other fellow Swedes to ask them why they moved here, what they do here and if there are any spots or places one shouldn’t miss if you would come and visit their new hometown. We’ll see what more Svisp TV will contain. Head over to the Facebook page to come up with suggestions and make your voice heard. You’ll find all our videos on Svisp’s Vimeo channel.
We also want to gather other type of information that Swedish people living in Spain (or about to) could be interested in. Like for instance which other Swedish bloggers that live in Spain and blog about their life here, Swedish companies and organisations active in Spain. We will also arrange small informal events, at the beginning only in Barcelona but hopefully we’ll be able to have meetups in other parts of Spain too. Too make sure you don’t miss an upcoming event, join us on our Facebook page.
We have a few “features” and parts of Svisp that isn’t launched yet. Are you in any way interested in what we do and want to reach this particular target group, send me an email at svispmail@gmail.com and we’ll talk!
You can besides joining us on Facebook and watching the Svisp TV episodes on Vimeo, also follow Svisp on Twitter and take a closer look at our Svisp pictures at Flickr.
For all of you Swedes out there that live in Spain or thinking about moving there I hope you’ll enjoy the site and contact me!
I’v signed the climate petition and I’m therefor a citizen of Hopenhagen. Hopenhagen is a world online were there’s still hope for a better world, by signing you tell the world what gives you hope. These “voices” from people all around the world will be a part of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 07 to 18.
Follow Hopenhagen on Twitter (and use the hashtag #hopenhagen if you tweet about it) and Facebook. And also if you write a blog check out my post about Blog Action Day on October 15.
I found out about this new video site recently (via the Swedish blog Beta Alfa) called Videofy.me
It’s basically a service that let’s you record and upload videos and then attaches an ad to it all. They then share all ad revenue 50/50 with the content creators. This very much reminds me of Revver, another video site that also try to let you earn money on your videos. I’m not sure but I don’t think the service is a huge success, I haven’t heard anything about it for a few years now. This doesn’t of course mean that Videofy.me can’t make a better more attractive service.
It seems like Videofy.me is aiming towards mobile video content and videos that don’t need any editing (well…). I must say I do have a little hard time to understand how people want to watch mobile video content that for the most of the time isn’t that great. If you take a look at both 12seconds.tv and Robo.to (4 seconds…and for me no sound…) and other mobile video streaming services like Bambuser and Qik it’s hard to find really good and interesting content. At least that’s my opinion. Most people aren’t that good at making unedited mobile video interesting for anyone else but their friends to watch.
I like the user interface of Videofy.me very much though and I absolutely think video will be the next big thing to be embraced by people as long as it’s not too complicated. Wish I guess is exactly what the people behind Videofy.me are trying to do.
So far the service is only available in Sweden and you need to apply for an account. The fact that they use a .me domain is something I love, maybe because we at Urban Lifestyle also have a .me video project going on…. Stay tuned and I’ll tell you more.
