Picmeleo is a new Finnish photo startup that has been developing a photo editing tool.
The tool itself is sort of an external application that companies providing services online can add on top of their own service, instead of having to come up with their own tool.
The team at Picmeleo have made it amazingly simple for publishers to embed the editor into their websites, all you need to do is paste a simple code. However, I dont really see the point of adding this editor to your site. Publishers arent able to make any more revenues from adding the picture editor to their site, it just keeps the user on the site longer.
A while back, the Finnish government announced that it was making high-speed internet access a legal right for all of its citizens. They have a point in making such legislation.
Because the Internet is playing a bigger part in work, education and society everyday it’s essential that everyone has access to it. Now the Swedes are adopting the same approach by promising their citizens 100 MB broadband in just over ten years. Imaging how many movies you could download with that!
In all seriousness though, I think this is great news. When the web grows more complex and starts to broadcast SuperHD videos (due in the next few years) we’ll need a seriously fast connection to keep up. At them moment, the base connection in Sweden is 20kb/s which is extremely slow. You’d have to go back to 1998 to get an internet connection that slow by using dial-up. I don’t even want to imagine loading a web page with that – let alone download a movie.
So come 2010 all the Swedes will be downloading ABBA at lightening speed!
With the emergency of the Pirate Party in Sweden in which won a European Parliamentary place at the last elections, I just wanted to run through what countries currently have a Pirate Party.
The Pirate Party – Sweden
The Pirate Party – Canada
The Pirate Party – UK
The Pirate Party – Germany
The Pirate Party – Finland
Have you ever wanted to know what was happening in the startup world in Scandinavia? Well I thought I would let everyone know about my favourite blog ArcticStartup. ArcticStartup is a technology blog letting everyone know what is happening in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Norway. The blog itself is kept up to date by some of the best technology journalists in Scandinavia and they also have a great Wiki site attached which keeps tracks of all the companies involved.
Im always a very big fan of reading what is happening from technology companies all over the world and not just in the USA!
