Authors

Tommi

Basics:

Tommi Pelkonen works as a strategist specialising in mobile telecommunications, digital marketing communications and business strategy formulation at Satama Amsterdam. He has worked on multiple mobility-related business projects. Prior to Satama, Tommi Pelkonen worked as project manager and senior researcher in LTT-Research Ltd analysing the developments in the Finnish interactive service provision markets. M.Sc. (Econ.) Pelkonen has authored several publications of the North European digital media landscape. His latest report (2006) was about the last ten years in the Finnish digital media. In addition, Mr. Pelkonen has worked as IT-project supervisor and lecturer in the Information Technology Program (ITP) at the Helsinki School of Economics. Tommi publishes also his own personal blog in Finnish.

My status for web 2.0:

I feel like I do know all the basic concepts, have even tried them. But still I do not feel that I really can master it. Really few of my peers or colleagues belong to this lifestyle. Thus, I want to learn more and try what it is to be all the time connected, all the time authoring and all the time sharing things about my life and experiences. Let’s see what will be the impact of this trial to my internet usage patterns. Looking curiosly towards the next few months.

Martijn

Basics:

Martijn van Welie works in the Satama as a Senior Interaction Designer and Manager User Experience. He received a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for his work on Task-based User Interface Design. At Satama he has worked for clients such as Vodafone, KPN, Nokia, Elsevier, Audi, and Skoda. Martijn specializes in telecom and actively follows the latest developments in the industry. In his spare time he maintains the collection of Interaction Design Patterns on his personal site www.welie.com

My status for web 2.0:

I am not new to the “web 2.0″ hype. Any development on the web intriges me. However, I have not changed my lifestyle to it yet. My gutfeeling still tells me that a lot it possible and technically interesting. But which services really interest ME???? Yes I have a Gmail and Flickr account and I have used Google Earth before. So is that it? Probably not. So in this experiment I intend to find out more…I let you know about it!