Not so much Leaving Las Vegas but going to Los Angeles. I’m going to be in the City of Angels between 22nd July and 2nd August (roughly). I’d love to hear from (and possibly meet with) any technology firms in the digital media and entertainment world; mobile; TV and anything at all “Web 2.0”. Indeed, anything “2.0” at all, Web or not! (Yes, I know we all sick of the
Well, my three-year-old Apple Powerbook laptop died. I lost a lot of data and I may not get it all back. I should imagine the two nasty drops it took over the last few months had something to do with it. Before you ask, yes, I backed it up. But guess what? Looks like the back-up didn’t work as well as I thought it would. Suffice it to say, don’t
The tbites.com podcast this week features an interview with Richard Anson, CEO of Reevoo.com, a new UK-based start-up. The idea behind Reevoo is that customers can only review products they've actually bought, rather than the millions of half-baked reviews out there on things people have barely looked at. It is also a handy CRM exercise for online retailers. But listen to the podcast to get the full story. News Update:
I’m new to the new music scene of “Emo” (Emotional Punk, apparently), but following a link from a trends site I found Mylocalbands.com. From here you can find the site for Fall Out Boy. Here, fans can post pictures they’ve taken of their fave band and find out where eachother are for meetups etc. This seems to me like a fantastic mashup idea and pretty much confirms my view that
The mbites.com podcast this week features an interview with Richard Anson, CEO of Reevoo.com, a new UK-based start-up. The idea behind Reevoo is that customers can only review products they’ve actually bought, rather than the millions of half-baked reviews out there on things people have barely looked at. It is also a handy CRM exercise for online retailers. But listen to the podcast to get the full story. Download the
An impromptu party organised by Mike Arrington of Techcrunch.com fame attracted upwards of 100 people to a central London bar on Monday night this week. One of the issues on people’s minds was when is the bubble on this latest Internet boom going to burst? Chatting over a beer Arrington said “When the market falls out of US house prices. Then people will start watching what they spend and the
Stumbling through London the other day after a long session at the Powerbook, I realised I just had to turn into a pub for a pint. Put it down to the call of nature. Incredibly, but who should happen by but Peter Nixey of Webkitchen. We got chatting over a jar, as you do, and he mentioned a new Web 2.0 project he was working on. Now, before you scream
Internet Protocol TV is set to be a very interesting new area both for existing broadcasters and new players. Why? Because it potentially lowers the barrier to entry for new players, and they may be from the Internet space, just as much as from the older TV industry. Thus, below are the details for an event I’m organising for NMK.co.uk. I Want My IPTV (NMK) date: 25/05/2006 time: 13:00 –
Richard Dreyfuss, Actor and Activist, spoke on “Media and Civic Discourse” Dreyfus efectively criticised the MSM (mainstream media) for reacting too quickly to events without any thought or substance. “We transmit chapter headings but no chapter. We do not rewards. Broadcast gives only visual no text. There is no details. Our relationship with the Islamic world, our ability to be self righteous are all transmitted by image. We cannot overlook
Mashup 2.0! Get it? Actually this blog post was created live tonight (hence typos etc) at the second London Mashup event which was all about “‘Personal Publishing, beyond blogging”. First speaker As the main organiser Simon Grice gets to talk at the event but also happens to have founded Midentity.com. He talked about “Personal Publishing” ( he used Dick Hardt‘s style of presenting which is basically to flash words and