I would have blogged “live” from “Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford 2005” at the Said Business School in Oxfrod, but, incredibly enough for a school jam packed full of eager young MBA students who want to be the next Google/Flickr/etc, there is NO Wi-Fi. You have to jack in via Ethernet. Apparently they don’t want their students to be building the next Napster during lectures. I did manage to take
Here’s something interesting. DigitalSpy is now bigger in traffic than ITV.com. That’s without any DS URLs appearing at the bottom of crap soap operas of an evening. Amazing. The switch happened half way through the year and never went back. ITV.com’s traffic is now on the decline, while DS’s had flattened but not weakened.
Tapeitofftheinternet.com – Oh. My. God. A while back (2 years ago?) I wrote a column about what would happen when BitTorrent was married with RSS. It happened. I’ve also written about how social software will eventually have a real application when married with a real interest, like music or films. It looks like Tapeitofftheinternet.com is about to bring all of these elements together. Look out broadcast TV. Here we come.
The guys over at Custom Communication are organising an event called Blogging for Business: How Blogs Can Help and Hurt Your Business in February next year. Out of a lot of events about blogs (and believe me, I’ve been to a few) I’d say this is going to be one of the most properly focused yet. It’s often hard to pin down what, exactly, blogs are capable of in a
Check out the event I’m organising for 01Zero-One. It’s titled “Ambient Media: The poster that talked back”. There is more info here, see below for the gist: Outdoor or “ambient” advertising has always, by its very nature, been static. But now brands are going mobile via the poster… Mobile owners are being invited to enter competitions or download content and offers. The possibilities, as Bluetooth becomes more widespread, could be
If you’ve arrived here wondering where the coverage of Tuesday’s Musically event is, it’s over at MusicBites.com. Enjoy.
I’m currently covering MIPCOM for PaidContent and MocoNews. See here for most of the coverage. (Hence all the photos and video on this page).
So, to wrap up. New iMac G5, with nice DVD controls etc. iTunes with music videos (2000) to buy and the ability to susbcribe to video podcasts – plus user recommendations and collaborative filtering (Long Tail etc). New iPod plays video. A deal with Disney to time-shift 6 leading US TV shows (not a big deal, but its monetising time shifting, so significant). Ok, questions: Where is the camera on
I’m going to the Apple event tonight. Think Secret has changed its mind about it just being upgrades to the Powerbooks and now admits it may actually be the video iPod. I think the telling sentence is this: “Rumors have swirled for months concerning Apple’s sale of music videos at the iTunes Music Store, and those plus video podcasts and television broadcasting appear better positioned at this point for a
Taken from the worlds first ever web page by Tim Berners Lee: “As I write Jean-Francois is presenting it live…”. Blimey… that’s kind’ve spooky… But then he did originally envision the Web to be a “read AND write” medium.