PLEASE NOTE: Before you read the below post, here is the context: It was written after a very difficult few days following the collapse of the TechCrunch UK franchise in December 2006 due to the falling out of franchisee Sam Sethi, who I was working with, and TechCrunch owner Mike Arrington. It was also a time when my wife was ill in hospital. The wider context is this: I started
I hope to get time (today’s hospital visits allowing) to post more fully about this whole TechCrunch UK & Ireland debacle. However, in the mean time, one thing is clear: I have been locked out of the TechCrunch web site’s backend WordPress system. Update: I hadn’t planned on making this public but I feel I need to explain my slow response to the above issue. My wife was diagnosed with
Those who know me personally will know that today I was out of action accompanying someone from my family to hospital. That meant I wasn’t online most of the day, and the reason I couldn’t attend “Le Web 3” in Paris this week. So it’s come as a surprise, to say the least, to see what has happened with TechCrunch UK & Ireland and my colleague Sam Sethi. Although I
I wish I’d gone on this.
Here are two fascinating posts from VCs: “The fact is that watching video on the Internet is superior in many ways to traditional television, even with a Tivo. You can’t engage with TV delivered via a set top box. How do you email a TV show to a friend with a set top box? How to you comment on it? How do you favorite it? How do you subscribe to
I wrote an article for The New Statesman on the business and economics of the video games industry, and one on Alternate Reality Gaming. It’s in this week’s edition, but there is also a free download PDF of the supplement the articles appeared in here. It was a huge pleasure to be commissioned by former NS Web guru Kathryn Corrick and to appear alongside some other writers whose work I
I have a new gig editing TechCrunch UK. Fairly soon I’ll be outlining what I plan to do with this blog next and some other ideas, assuming it’s of any interest to anyone, which I doubt!
I’m writing an article for a magazine (The New Statesman), provisionally titled “What have videogames ever done for us? A look at the economics of videogames in the UK”. I’m looking at the variety of jobs, how old the industry is here, who’s involved, what research is being done here (both in terms of R&D and possibly academically), investment, numbers of companies, exports, and what they are doing to make
For my money, Gary Hayes offers an excellent explanation and graphic. Key quote: “We are heading towards a rich media personal hub that points to and houses all of our ’shareable’ content. But the current 2D web, mostly linear to linear linking, is about to be enhanced by virtual environments in which we meet as avatars, interact as 3D moving objects that takes sharing, collaboration and communication to the next,
I heartily recommend this Orwellian analysis of what is going on in the world – and where it all started – by the author Martin Amis: “The age of horrorism: On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, one of Britain’s most celebrated and original writers analyses – and abhors – the rise of extreme Islamism. In a penetrating and wide-ranging essay he offers a trenchant critique of the