So I arrived in San Francisco on Saturday only to be met with another heat-wave to replace the one I’d left behind in London. Oh joy. At least my hotel in Palo Alto, off El Camino Real, turned out to have air conditioning that worked! The Sunday morning was cooler when I met tech writer Mark Haas, (pictured) who had been introduced to me by old friend Steve Carlson, whom
So I’m off to San Francisco/Palo Alto to meet some contacts and attend the Always On conference at Stanford this week. After that it’s on to LA to chat to a few ‘digital hollywood’ execs and mobile people…
First published, Future Media, June 2006: Disney launched its first massively multiplayer online role-playing game back in 2003, the success of which has inspired the company to devise similar propositions around Lost and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Just what does the Mouse see in the MMORPG? Mike Butcher reports. You can imagine the scene. Having recorded that must-watch show on the PVR, you are now painstakingly slow-mo-ing
Published in New Media Age 15.06.06: Gustav Söderström is sitting in a hotel bar in Stockholm looking at the profile of a 23-year-old woman. This isn’t some seedy chatroom on his laptop, though. He’s taking part in a social experience entirely on his mobile phone, updating live as he talks and allowing him to instant message his friends and contacts, writes Mike Butcher Söderström is a founder of Kenet Works,
YelloWikis may capitulate to Yell over their recent legal action due to lack of funds to fight a prolonged court battle. In an email interview with tbites, YelloWikis’ Paul Youlten said (words in bold are tbites’ emphasis): “We have to reply to their charges by next Monday and we are planning to deny the charges of “passing off” – though some solicitors seem to think that we will win quite
HitWise has the drop on MySpace today: “Myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users. To put MySpace’s growth in perspective, if we look back to July 2004 myspace.com represented only .1% of all Internet visits. This time last year myspace.com represented 1.9% of all Internet visits. With the week ending July 8, 2006 market share figure of 4.5% of all
Ian Jindal, lately publisher of EUBusiness.com, is now launch Editor at InternetRetailer.info (looks like they couldn't get the dotcom domain. The site is owned by Retail Events who cannily seem to be getting into Blogging as well. The folks over at subscription only web site/mag Retail Week will be pleased… Technorati Tags: Mediabites
The world's biggest yellow pages publisher, Yell, has threatened to shut down Yellowikis, the wiki-based yellow pages directory, accusing it of of "misrepresentation", "passing off" and suggests that using the name Yellowikis could "constitute an 'instrument of fraud'. It's contacted Yellowikis co-founders Paul Youlten and Rosa Blaus (his 15 year-old daughter) demanding they shutter the website, transfer the domain names to Yell and agree to pay damages to Yell for
Who needs courses when you can just read WikiNews. (Damn – and all those early years of slogging it through boring local council meetings, court cases and shitty magazines was for nothing).
This Saturday Christian Aid are asking people to drum for Trade Justice to remind people of the promises made by the G8 last July and to form a petition to the UK government. There will be drumming sessions organised all over the country, drumming at 12 noon. For more information on the whole event look at www.pressureworks.org (one of the Christian Aid websites). Do it – it will be fun