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
I’d like to take a moment to say something about the slow destruction of closed portals and the future of identity. We’ve come a long way. In the very early days of the Internet media owners felt they had to be a one-stop shop to everything online. Time Inc. was one of those and it launched Pathfinder.com in the mid-90s to do just that. To use the word “portal” feels
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I am building a programme of new podcast shows based around the business of mobile content, online media, digital marketing and digital entertainment. So if you get to London or are based here and would like to come on the mbites Podcast, get in touch.
A personal aside… An old mate of mine has entered a radio show competition to get his song voted top of the World Cup songs. It’s easily the best entry, but to invoke the spirit of collaboration that is emblematic of the Web, I’d like you to go and vote for it! Please go to Talksport.net, scroll down, look on the left for “Koopa (Stand Up 4 England)” and click
As an addendum to the podcast today about corporate blogging, I interviewed Piers Fawkes (pictured) of the New York-based PSFK web sites, which track trends and brands online. Piers mentioned one new success story: hotels who are using blogs as travel guides to New York…
The mbites.com podcast this week looked at the relatively new phenomenon (at least in the UK) of corporate blogging: blogs run by firms and organisations both as a communications exercise and as a kind of customer relationship thing. We also touched on blogging ‘as publishing’. The guests (pictured above) were Tim Houghton, managing director of New Media Intelligence, and Dana Gornitzki, editorial consultant, journalist and contributor to the The Globe
Sometimes I am contacted by people who ask me to link to them and if I get time, and it seems OK, I will. Hence: The new blog from the editor of Brand Republic. Meanwhile, here’s Ajit Jaokar’s and here’s Helen Keegan’s (where a bunch of cool mobile links reside today).
Kenetworks is a fantastic little mobile development agency in Stockholm who excited me about the potential for mobile to drive communities, and therefore communities to drive brands. Meeting Gustav Söderström in the bar of the Lydmar Hotel was great fun and he took me through, step by step, the service they have come up, which currently runs on Playahead, a huge youth community site in Sweden. There is a great
I went to Blogging For business yesterday. The event itself was well programmed, well thought out and cleverly promoted both by blogs and by the stirling efforts of organiser Matt Yeomans and Bernhard Warner (and conference firm Retail Events). If there was any glitch it was often with sections of the audience. Not that they were bad or stupid. More that they seemed to be coming to ‘the conversation’ about