Qualcomm’s MediaFlo says it will beat DVB-H installations by year end. MediaFlo expects to overtake its TV-to-mobile rivals by the end of the year, helped by distribution and take-up on two main US wireless networks (Verizon and AT&T), a surge in Italy and its Korean DMB system. Speaking at BroadcastAsia, Omar Javaid, VP/business development for MediaFlo said MediaFlo also has a commitment from Japan’s KDDI to start transmissions, while Nokia’s
How not to approach a blogger (this was sent to me on email). I have not disclosed the names involved so that – maybe – this person doesn’t lose their job, as my guess is that this is just naivety on their part: Hi Mike, My name is XXXXXXX and I work for XXXXXXX XXXXXXX – an agency that specialises in digital communication. I’ve been looking at your blog and
You’re a PR or marketing company worried about social media and blogs? Hey, why not start posing as if you are a customer, extolling the benefits of your clients product! Better still, set up a fake blog and do it there! Wrong! Trevor Jeffords, Associate of law firm Eversheds, writes in their latest e80 newsletter: “Under new laws in the UK, businesses will soon be prevented from “falsely representing oneself
This is thin stuff. “There is increasing buzz around buzz.” Oh, come on. You guys need to realise that online identity in the form of a MySpace or Facebook profile is as much content as anything someone might ‘upload’. Furthermore, microblogging a la Twitter is the tip of the ice-burg. When ‘uploaders’ include those who are happy to blog in just 140 characters (many more than the blessed 8% I
Click To Play I interviewed Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo.com while he was in London for the NMK Forum this week. Broadly speaking, he covered what Mahalo will set out to achieve and how. Mahalo is to be a human powered search engine, creating better results and easier to use information than the brute force of a cold algorithm. As Calacanis said to me after the interview, “Google plus human
BREAKING NEWS: The Internet is getting polluted, said Jason Calacanis today in his keynote speech today at NMK Forum 07. He calls it an 'environmental crisis' of bad blogging, gaming the system, SEO gone mad and "pay per post". "The polluting SEO slime balls have destroyed our Internet and it's time to take it back" he said. He introduced Mahalo.com to the UK internet industry, which is a new human
(First published: New Media Age, 17.05.07) I got three points on my driving license because of Twitter. What can I say? I was driving. There was a speed camera. My phone started buzzing with the latest frenzied Twitters from the launch of the Apple iPhone. What could be my defence? “My Twitter feed made me speed, M’Lud” Blogging never landed me in trouble with the law. So why has this
This is the text of a speech I gave at the PSFK London conference on Friday, June 1, 2007. It’s about how media owners now face some very harsh realities against both technology companies that put the power to publish in the hands of the ‘audience’ and smaller, cheaper to run media startups. There’s a little story about the first stirring of how a new kind of cheap to produce,
UPDATE: Word on the street is that the Big Chill, the tres cool festival, will be running the club room at the event. That means some very heavyweight clubbing… UK new media community Chinwag has announced it’s free summer party, planning to entertain more than 2,000 Web 2.0-era Internet people. It’s also signed some big name sponsors including Adobe and Channel 4, along with recruitment firm Purple, all keen no
Click To Play An interview with, first, upcoming band SecondPerson, the only UK band to win a deal via Sellaband, and then Pim Betist, Creative director, Sellaband at the first UK showcase of bands on the site. Sellaband offers a model of free legal distribution of new music by enabling a direct relationship between developing artists and their fans. The site enables fans (�believers�) to buy $10 shares in unsigned