December 2010
25 posts
This Year of Refinements
In the first year of The Refinement Club, 2010, we have posted 56 posts. Most of the posts are ideas and concepts, about 50. We think it’s swell! There are tons of great ideas to dig into and refine even further. If you got some spare time the rest of the holidays, here are some of our favorite ideas and concepts.
The Ultimate Workflow System was our second concept at The Refinement Club....
Dec 24th: Managing your web apps
Today it’s Christmas eve, and this is the end of our Advent Calendar. For this idea we were joined by Daniel Engebretsen who presented a problem and an idea.
Problem:
There are so many cool and useful web services out there, but it’s easy to forget that you have them.
Solution:
Some sort of dashboard widget for your computer, a toolbox, where you can collect these services. By...
Dec 23rd: Giving away the feature Facbook forgot
On the twenty third day of The Refinement Clubs Advent Calendar features Are Sundnes and Hyperinteraktiv and their really useful service Hyper Alerts. Go check it out!
Working in interactive marketing, it’s only natural that a lot of our work these days is somehow related to Facebook. Most our friends and clients administer a Facebook page, and a few of them have asked us whether there is some...
Dec 22nd: Wikipedia your friends
On the 22nd day of our Advent Calendar, Johannes presents an idea that opens up a whole new level of online humor. Enjoy!
In the old days when some one said or did something particularly humours, dumb, heroic or smart we sometimes replayed them with a phrase like this: “When you look up stupid in the encyclopedia there’s a picture of you.” Now encyclopedia is of course Wikipedia...
Dec 21st: Kontribit: Sharing reinvented
The 21st day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Mats André Kristiansen, Andreas Skaranger and Funkbit AS. with their cool concept about social curation. We have been alpha testing their site a little bit and are starting to dig their service. Make sure to opt in for a beta tester spot.
We’ve been thinking about something.
Social networks connect us in fascinating new ways. We all...
Dec 20th: To the point
The twentieth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Theo Blackburn, Jonas Laberg, Ine Marie Vassøy and their genius idea about efficiency in everyday life.
We are truly blessed, for these days it’s not particularly hard to think of examples of stressful situations and time-gobbling, irritation-generating friction as we move around the city trying to get the Christmas...
Dec 19th: The friendly wargame
The nineteenth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features an idea by Jonatan Filip and Christel Marie Blunck about a new kind of wargame.
There is a lot of violence in the world. Even though we know this is horrible, we tend to chill out in the sofa getting our mind off stress while playing videogames simulating wars with life realistic graphics. It you ask me, the only thing missing...
Dec 18th: Digital Receipts
The eighteenth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features an idea from The Refinement Club about digital receipts.
This week Ingrid Lea, Torny Hesle and Thale Høy-Petersen presented their idea for a budget-app. Something that would make all budget apps noticeably better is access to more information. The fact that what we buy is registered, but we only get access to where and how much...
Dec 17th: i.favorized.it
The seventeenth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Cas Lemmens’s Idea about collecting all your favorized links on one site. Great idea!
i.favorized.it When you forgot to mark where you marked it.
We bookmark links on Delicious, and share them on Twitter. We also digg them, and sometimes stumble upon them. We love videos on Vimeo, and add them to our favorites on...
Dec. 16th: Budget App
The sixteenth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Ingrid Lea, Torny Hesle and Thale Høy-Petersen’s idea about budgeting and money spending. Enjoy!
Problem The replacement of debit cards instead of cash as the most common payment form has made it harder for users to control their own consumption. Unlike before, when you could clearily see your wallet shrink after...
Dec. 15th: Bathe for Water
It’s the fifteenth day of our Advent Calendar, and a Wednesday, so today we present The Refinement Club’s very own Gro Larsson’s idea about how to raise funds with your water consumption.
Bathtubs are pretty damn awesome, and on cold days I especially wish I had one. But I can’t help think of how much water you end up using if you have a bathtub. In Norway we have plenty of water, but...
Dec 14th: Power to the Consumer!
The fourteenth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Doffen Trellevik’s idea on how to make the consumers even more powerful. Enjoy!
Problem: In 2010 it should be obvious that the consumer perception should be in the core of every consumer-driven company. But still consumers constantly experience bad service and unacceptable behavior from companies that fail to deliver what...
Dec 13th: www.diglitt.no
The thirteenth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Hans Gerhard Meier’s bold idea on how to kickstart ebooks in norway. The idea is great and we couldn’t agree more in this matter. Check out his website, www.diglitt.no and become a fan on Facebook. But first read and enjoy Hans Gerhard’s idea:
Problem Tablets and e-readers have been around for a year or two,...
Dec 12th: Translating value on the go!
The twelfth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Åsmund Gravem’s genius browser plugin idea. Enjoy!
My name is Åsmund Gravem and I am an Art Director from Westredals. I love technology, cool ideas and learning new stuff that i hope to use to save the world, so every day I browse articles on the web, and most of the time when i read articles containing currency, length...
Dec 11th: Time to give tv a break
The eleventh day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Rannveig Revhaug’s idea on how to personalize the ad break on TV.
TV is so 15yrs ago, I know. But still, it’s there, and it’s partly annoying. The main reason it bugs us is the massive bundle of stupid, untimely and useless ads in the middle of your favorite tv show - a great reason to download or watch series...
Dec. 10th: The (real) Fashion Forecast
On the tenth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent Calendar, we present the idea of our recurring guest Maja Folgerø and her team partner Felipe Montt. Their idea has great potential when it comes to making a lot of people’s mornings a lot easier. We like!
Problem: Hi Refinement Club, we are Felipe and Maja, and we’re not what you’d call “morning persons”. As we’re constantly looking...
Dec 9th: Complaining sucks!
The ninth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Tim Oudenstad’s idea on how to appreciate living in Norway and realize how privileged we are.
I’m really sick of Norwegians complaining about… Well, almost everything. Also, I’m tired of the negative attitude many people have towards giving money to charity.
Idea: I’d like people to realize how privileged we are to be born in...
Dec 8th: Loot Deck - Making chores fun
It’s the eight day of our Advent Calendar, and a Wednesday, so here’s an idea from The Refinement Club’s very own Johannes Rummelhoff about making chores more rewarding to do.
Problem: I procrastinate. Fold clothes? It just got damn boring. Do the dishes? Come on! I’m doing it after I read this chapter. I promise. Wash the house? Really, I did it three weeks ago!...
Dec 7th: Bike away cars and pollution
The seventh day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Helge Svendsen’s idea on how to encourage people to use the bike even more.
Problem: It’s no secret that many cities has too many cars. Cars contribute to increased pollution and bad health (because of the lack of psychical movement due to excessive use of cars). The world’s governments have tried to decrease the...
Dec 6th: Curiosity - It’s a virtue!
The sixth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar (Sorry about the delay, but yesterday Tumblr was down and we wasn’t able to post anything.) features Paul van Brunschot’s idea about curiosity.
The problem: Schools educate our children to be incurious. Children are supposed to memorize ”correct” answers and are not supposed to question them. Children are brought up to believe...
Dec 5th: Augmented decoration
The fifth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Håkon Krogenæs. Enjoy his cool idea about augmented decoration.
My name is Håkon Krogenæs, and I’m in the process of buying my first apartment. Due to my financial situation it is going to be a small one. With almost minuscule flats it is essential to make the absolute most of every square centimeter, and when you are looking...
Dec 4th: Content - Creating and consuming
The fourth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Didrik Sten. Check out his thoughts on paying for and consuming content in a digital world.
My idea, solves the problem of piracy. It also simplifies publishing content - and getting paid for it!
Imagine having a simple social network where everyone can post content of any sort (videos, games, blog posts, articles, etc.), and...
Dec 3rd: The Icebreaker Application
The third day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Martin Ødegaarden Henriksen aka Den Glade Pendler. Enjoy his funny and smart idea.
X-mas is a jolly good time. At least for people with jolly good lives. Sure, some think that their mother-in-law is a PITA (Pain in The Ass), but that`s forgotten when da freakin Christmas dinner is on da table and the helium-voiced boy choir sings...
Dec 2nd: Gifts from yesteryear at...
The second day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Anette K Hansen & Deidre Ritsche with their idea about upcycling. We love that they are actually doing this, so if you’re in Berlin on December 4th make sure to check out their Show & Sell event! If you’d like to support their concept, you can do so at the funding site Inkubato.
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Dec. 1st: Secret Crush
We proudly present the very first day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar. We got a bunch of great ideas contributed by lots of smart people. Every day until Christmas Eve we will post one new idea. 24 creative, interesting, cool and innovative concepts. The first one out is Casper Cornelius Roalsvig Vasbotten with his simple yet amazing idea. Enjoy!
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