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
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
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…