One thing that struck me while I was in Los Angles last week was that the people I met kept saying the same thing: media, entertainment and technology are converging (yes, THAT word) on Los Angeles. The simple fact that the biggest music and Hollywood players are there, and the act that it is an hour’s plane ride from Silicon Valley, and an hour’s drive from San Diego (where the
AlwaysOn is not your typical conference. During the two and a half days it was on, it ranged from discussions about data to user generated content to venture capital to mobile. Quite a range. This was both a strength and a weakenss, but the audience handled it all with aplomb. Perhaps the hottest topic at the event was social media and in particular the rise of sites like YouTube and
First published, Future Media, June 2006: Disney launched its first massively multiplayer online role-playing game back in 2003, the success of which has inspired the company to devise similar propositions around Lost and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Just what does the Mouse see in the MMORPG? Mike Butcher reports. You can imagine the scene. Having recorded that must-watch show on the PVR, you are now painstakingly slow-mo-ing
I’m new to the new music scene of “Emo” (Emotional Punk, apparently), but following a link from a trends site I found Mylocalbands.com. From here you can find the site for Fall Out Boy. Here, fans can post pictures they’ve taken of their fave band and find out where eachother are for meetups etc. This seems to me like a fantastic mashup idea and pretty much confirms my view that
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
Can we get a Podbop for the Uk please? Anyone out there interested?
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
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
“They stole our revolution. Now We’re stealing it back”. So runs the tagline at the end of the weekly email newsletter for technology geeks, NTK.net. And although the slogan has been running since 1997, in 2006 the slogan has never been more appropriate. Standing outside a cold London town hall, watching hordes of mostly fresh-faced young men (I counted six women among 800) file in to a conference on the