Word leaks out
Looks like a few people have noticed what we are doing. I’m happy to oblige with a few quotes.
Another awards do, another hangover
I went to the IMMA awards on Wednesday. How many interactive advertising and marketing awards can the UK/London take? Three apparently, all from the same publishing company (New Media Age, Marketing Week).
Independent redesigns it’s site
The Independent newspaper has redesigned it’s web site. In a “statement”:http://news.independent.co.uk/media/story.jsp?story=575993 on the site today, the newspaper explained that out of all the media, it is even more important for web sites to “evolve to match changing news flows and expectations.” It’s an interesting redesign, very “clean” and slightly reminds me of the International Herald Tribune. As the Guardian is rumoured to be in the early stages of planning a
Lunch with Vin Crosbie
I had lunch with Vin Crosbie, digital media luminary from the US. We chatted about the state of the digital media industries here and in the US. I took a photo. More later.
Amazon allows picture reviews – beat that, Which
Amazon.com is allowing consumers to share their photos alongside product descriptions. In their guidelines they say you can post images that highlight a feature of the product (“here’s what the controls on this music player looks like”); images that show the product in use, etc etc. It’s the new new thing in consumer reviews. Beat that Which.
Social network with your paper, Sir?
So you thought online social networking didn’t have a business model outside of the sheer genius of ‘pay another 10 bucks to network with people who’s email adresses you already have’? Oh, yee of little faith. It turns out online networking isn’t about Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, or other such esoteric party games. It’s about classified advertising. Still not convinced? Imagine the Guardian buying Friendster.com. Well, that at least
War and conflict add new dimension to online video
The man shuffled in past reception, ushered through the gleaming glass corridors of the internet start-up, his unkempt brown suit and mis-matched tie attracting a few glances from the chino-clad bright young things playing at the table football as he passed into the chief executive’s office. “Have a seat,” said the chief executive, head of one of London’s hippest “internet incubators”, where the new paradigms of e-business were being forged
Hail to the blog: a new movement in journalism
At the recent Emerging Technologies 2002 conference in Santa Clara, California, some of the chatter in the halls among the delegates included the biological frameworks for computation (using ants’ brains), hackers beating entrepreneurs, and the future of ideas. The kinds of discussions that emerge from a gathering of intelligent and technologically savvy people who like thinking about the future. But I’m afraid, dear reader, that I’m about to disabuse you