Day: 30 July 2007

New event: Brunch Bites 1.0

Come for brunch with tbites editor Mike Butcher, this Wednesday in Soho, London… EVENT: Brunch Bites 1.0 (BETA) Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Location: The Breakfast Club, Soho 33 D’Arblay Street London Map Venue: http://www.thebreakfastclubsoho.com/ Email: editor [at] bitesmedia.com Description: Into digital media, marketing, music, mobile and Web 2.0? Got a startup? Come for brunch with blogger and journalist Mike Butcher, mbites.com and Bites Media, and

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Online offers smart media owners potential for growth. Fact.

Head of digital for the Guardian Media Group Simon Waldman hits back with both barrels today at John Duncan and his assertion in a previous issue of Press Gazette that online teams have ‘conned’ unsuspecting newspaper boards into making investments in online publishing. Here are some key quotes from his piece in today’s Press Gazette: “The current forecasts for growth in the UK market indicate that, on average, digital spending

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Match.com launches mobile service

Dating site Match.com is to launch a mobile web and text service for mobile phones in the UK, US and Canada, expanding out to a further nine countries by the end of the year. Subscribers will be able to search Match.com from their mobile’s browsers and receive an SMS text message whenever another user sends them a message. According to research firm M:Metrics 3.6 million US mobile users made use

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New event: Brunch Bites 1.0

Come for brunch with blogger and journalist Mike Butcher, this Wednesday in Soho… EVENT: Brunch Bites 1.0 (BETA) Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Location: The Breakfast Club, Soho 33 D’Arblay Street London Also on Upcoming Map Venue: http://www.thebreakfastclubsoho.com/ Email: editor@bitesmedia.com Description: Into digital media, marketing, music, mobile and Web 2.0? Got a startup? Come for brunch with blogger and journalist Mike Butcher, mbites.com and Bites Media,

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Online offers smart media owners potential for growth. Fact.

Head of digital for the Guardian Media Group Simon Waldman hits back with both barrels today at John Duncan and his assertion in a previous issue of Press Gazette that online teams have ‘conned’ unsuspecting newspaper boards into making investments in online publishing. Here are some key quotes from his piece in today’s Press Gazette: “The current forecasts for growth in the UK market indicate that, on average, digital spending

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Turn Facebook statuses into a twitter feed?

Julian Bond at Voidstar has a great post on routing all your and your friend’s Status updates from Facebook to Twitter using Mario Menti’s excellent TwitterFeed service. Now, here’s my question. Is this not completely insane? Keeping up with Twitter feeds is hard enough. Adding Facebook status updates would hasten my “Twitter Bankruptcy”. At least with Twitter most people tend to keep in the back of their head that at

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German hacker turned away from the US

I have written about security and terrorism before (in The Guardian). One conference I went to a few years ago in Dublin involved sitting around working out how to hack into WiFi. ‘Black Hat’ security is about things like ‘reverse engineering’ software to work out how to break into it. It’s pretty useful both for governments and for companies to work out how secure their systems are. So I’m amazed

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Facebook is not the Holy Grail

Today I’ve been reading Rex Hammock’s Weblog (thanks Voidstar for the link) who writes about how Facebook it’s not really the Holy Grail for either social networking or being the ultimate tool for collaborative working and tracking. He calls it’ “geek play”, and I agree. He says: Facebook is not even close to being what will ultimately be that thing which alters fundamentally the way in which we relate and

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