I find it interesting that a site started by a 16 year old student to lobby in favour of science and animal testing is unavailable today. But the 16 year old’s original blog is still up, where you can comment and contribute to the debate. Meanwhile the anti-vivisectionist site for Speak doesn’t allow people to comment on their news stories. So which side is more open to debate do you
The Guardian has had some foresight in putting the Changing Media event together. Let's hope it lives up to its ambitions…
Can we get a Podbop for the Uk please? Anyone out there interested?
How about this? A Web 2.0 Innovation map: “The Web 2.0 Innovation Map grew out of an interest in how Web 2.0 development is distributed geographically. Using the lists of Web 2.0 applications from various sources (see listings) and a bit of elbow grease to locate addresses, the Innovation Map was born. The locations listed here have come either from a WHOIS lookup or the contact information from the web
Mooky is a not quicktime downloadable magazine which you can subscribe to on iTunes. It’s made-for-the-iPod video content which, I think, has a lot of potential. Professionally done, it and probably most appeals to a youthful, iPod owning audience – although I think the idea would work for others markets as well. Why not get a video podcast from CNBC, for instance? (They do audio ones right now). This is
Jason Calacanis nails the reason why YouTube is not a real business. Why? Because it’s making a lot of traffic out of pirated material. Bully for them, but a real business this does not make. Still, YouTube’s service is useful for the rest of us in the mean time, whether they get bought or not.
Cary Marsh, Mydeo.com Paul Munford, Monty’s Mobile Gaming Outlook This week Mbites.com brought together Cary Marsh, co-founder of consumer streaming video start-up Mydeo.com and Paul Munford, editor of must-read weekly mobile industry newsletter Monty’s Mobile Gaming Outlook, for the first in a weekly series of podcasts. Hosted at the cool London private members club, Adam Street, the podcast covered recent events at 3GSM, the global mobile conference and whether we
“They stole our revolution. Now We’re stealing it back”. So runs the tagline at the end of the weekly email newsletter for technology geeks, NTK.net. And although the slogan has been running since 1997, in 2006 the slogan has never been more appropriate. Standing outside a cold London town hall, watching hordes of mostly fresh-faced young men (I counted six women among 800) file in to a conference on the
Returning from the 3GSM Congress in Barcelona, I couldn’t help wondering if all the hype was really missing something important – why we love SMS. So let’s review that hype. Basically the “Mobile World” thinks it’s going to move towards a totally Internet-based future, where every phone is IP-enabled and we all roam around, using voice and data on the move. A vast new world of video and music downloads
Check out MocoNews for my blog coverage of 3GSM.