In a move to remain relevant as communications move online more and more, Denmark’s post office has introduced a digital postage stamp system,Springwise reports. The new system has the sender scrawling a series of characters onto the envelope before sending the letter off. Customers purchase their post stamp code via text message, and the post office scans the code on the envelope as it processes mail. So really, everything about the new system is digital, except for the stamps....

Denmark isincreasingly becomingone of Europe’s major startup hubs, specifically Copenhagen where some of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley have grown from. Yammer competitorPodiois making waves in the Valley andZendeskjust moved into brand new offices on Market and 4th street. I’ve been covering the work of The Danish Innovation Center for a few months now and alsoSCALEit-a program set up bySøren Rønne Therkelsenbringing Danish startups over for a 3-month incubation period to gain insights into Silicon Valley culture....

Next week twenty Danish technology startups will travel to Silicon Valley on a new initiative set up byThe Innovation Center DenmarkcalledSCALEit. The startups will be exposed to the valley’s unique ecosystem for a week in the hope they will take the skills and information they learn back to Denmark where they will grow their startups and contribute to the Danish economy through revenue and job creation. Just like many other governments in the world, Denmark too has Silicon Valley Fever, realizing that creating a fertile breading ground for startups is paramount to their position on the world stage as the we move towards a knowledge-based economy where if scaled right, a startup can be a dominant global company in a relatively small amount of time....

After a year of non stop hype stoked by events like the recent50 billion valuationafter a 500 million dollar investment fromGoldman Sachs, there will be very few people on the planet who have not heard aboutFacebook. Then there’sZynga, the company that creates social games built on top of the Facebook platform, which has comparatively been flying under the radar apart from in tech circles. Even though Zynga produces popular games likeFarmville, Cityville andMafia Wars,the parent company Zyngahas been more focused on generating huge amounts of revenue rather than generating the sort of mainstream press Facebook have been getting....

Deprioritization is the real key to productivity Making one thing a priority means putting something else off — and that’s ok A weekly list of deprioritized projects We’ve been thinking a lot about priorities at Zapier this year. Everyone herewrites a weekly Friday update, which until recently was more-or-less a weekly list of completed tasks. However, that approach lacked focus, so we changed things up: now everyone outlines what their top priority was in the past week and what their top priority will be in the week to come....