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Mbites Podcast: Moblogging and Podcasting – media from the masses?

March 16, 2006
Mike Butcher
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This week Mbites.com hosted its latest “Bitecast”, featuring two guests: Alfie Dennen (left), co-founder of Moblog UK and Chris Skinner (right), co-founder of Podcast User Magazine. Download the MP3 file here (approx 19MB, 20 minutes long) or subscribe to the podcast feed and download it automatically into your favourite podcasting software and/or mobile media player device. The second in our regular series of podcasts (chaired by journalist Mike Butcher) looked

The IPTV portals – a road to nowhere

Watching coverage of the recent IPTV Forum in London, I was struck by the extent to which the telecoms industry is poised to make the same mistakes it made during the Internet boom, this time in the realm of TV. To explain. Major telcos like BT, France Telecom and others have a slight problem. Local loop unbundling has brought a number of new players into competition. Revenues from voice calls

New mbites project

mbites has a new project. My wife had a baby boy on Friday March 3rd (yay!), so our ‘new project’ will be taking up a little time this week. Expect only light posting on this blog this week… Update: A photo from my cameraphone (a Treo 650).

Microsoft’s Origami – a paper tiger

Microsoft’s Origami is a joke. Does Gates really think we are going to walk around with this VAST device, as if it were a mobile? Check out the advert. Check out the guy gaming on the device on a tube station. How long would it take him to get mugged? I’d say about 10 mins in some stations in London. It’s bad enough with mobiles. As the BIMA event (note:

Which one has the blog?

I find it interesting that a site started by a 16 year old student to lobby in favour of science and animal testing is unavailable today. But the 16 year old’s original blog is still up, where you can comment and contribute to the debate. Meanwhile the anti-vivisectionist site for Speak doesn’t allow people to comment on their news stories. So which side is more open to debate do you

UK indie music mashup

Can we get a Podbop for the Uk please? Anyone out there interested?

A map that charts Web 2.0 projects?

How about this? A Web 2.0 Innovation map: “The Web 2.0 Innovation Map grew out of an interest in how Web 2.0 development is distributed geographically. Using the lists of Web 2.0 applications from various sources (see listings) and a bit of elbow grease to locate addresses, the Innovation Map was born. The locations listed here have come either from a WHOIS lookup or the contact information from the web

Mooky – a magazine for your iPod

Mooky is a not quicktime downloadable magazine which you can subscribe to on iTunes. It’s made-for-the-iPod video content which, I think, has a lot of potential. Professionally done, it and probably most appeals to a youthful, iPod owning audience – although I think the idea would work for others markets as well. Why not get a video podcast from CNBC, for instance? (They do audio ones right now). This is

YouTube: not a real business

Jason Calacanis nails the reason why YouTube is not a real business. Why? Because it’s making a lot of traffic out of pirated material. Bully for them, but a real business this does not make. Still, YouTube’s service is useful for the rest of us in the mean time, whether they get bought or not.

Mbites Podcast: Is video the New New Thing?

February 23, 2006
Mike Butcher
mbites, mbites podcasts, Media, Mobile, Tech
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Cary Marsh, Mydeo.com Paul Munford, Monty’s Mobile Gaming Outlook This week Mbites.com brought together Cary Marsh, co-founder of consumer streaming video start-up Mydeo.com and Paul Munford, editor of must-read weekly mobile industry newsletter Monty’s Mobile Gaming Outlook, for the first in a weekly series of podcasts. Hosted at the cool London private members club, Adam Street, the podcast covered recent events at 3GSM, the global mobile conference and whether we

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