From last week’s NTK: And where are they now, the hip young gunslingers of THE INDUSTRY STANDARD EUROPE? Georgia Cameron-Clarke, off in New York somewhere, Mike “Butch” Butcher, “reworking” his mbites newsletter, James Ledbetter writing a tell-all chronicle of where it all went wrong, entitled “Starving To Death On $200 Million A Year”. But the one we’re keeping an eye on is former London Correspondent Polly Sprenger, who’s exchanged “routers”
The seminar looked at companies making content work for them through subscription models. The speakers were Paul Carr, Editor, The Friday Thing; James Boxell, Subscription Editor, FT.com; and Nick Downes, Commercial Director, New Crane Internet, which is doing the DeliaOnline site for Delia Smith. The Friday Thing is a paid-for satirical email newsletter, quite a good one, and one which proves my theory that non-business content needs to be charged
It started aroun 6-ish. ‘Bed’ is quite a funky venue in the trendy Smithfields area. People arrived in dribs and drabs till about 6.30pm when about 30 people arrived in one go and the thing just got better and better. With about 130 people turning up, out of 160 RSVPs, eventually there was actually not a lot of room, but people seemed to take it in good stride and it
Even as the light has long dimmed on the dotcom boom, and the feverish partying is now just a faint hangover, the technology crowd is massing once more. But this time, instead of clamouring at the bar at a packed-out First Tuesday event, Britain’s e-business people are hitting the web sites before hitting the bars. This time it’s not about WANs, Wi-Fi or wireless networking, but real live networking, enhanced
Thankfully I was wrong. It turned out I hadn’t been recognised by my photo in NMA, but the one on Ecademy.com, the networking site which last week announced its intention to reach 10,000 active members by next year. So this is the state of business in the new millennium. Meeting people who we have encountered on Web sites. As bland and somewhat geekish as that sounds, it’s going to become