Monthly Archives: July 2006
Steve Wozniak laser-signed my Macbook!
We were interviewing Steve Wozniak (the original co-founder of Apple with Steve Jobs, who actually built the first Apple machines) after his speech at the AlwaysOn conference. Being a Mac fan and user of old I asked him to sign … Continue reading
The young consume content from eachother
Here’s an interesting statistic: “62% of the content that the average 21 year old consumes is produced by someone they know” – Pew Institute. YouTube streams 100 millions video clips a day. Get it yet? Technorati Tags: Mediabites
Are you going to San Francisco?
So I arrived in San Francisco on Saturday only to be met with another heat-wave to replace the one I’d left behind in London. Oh joy. At least my hotel in Palo Alto, off El Camino Real, turned out to … Continue reading
Off to Silicon Valley and LA
So I’m off to San Francisco/Palo Alto to meet some contacts and attend the Always On conference at Stanford this week. After that it’s on to LA to chat to a few ‘digital hollywood’ execs and mobile people…
The Mouse and the MMORPG
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. … Continue reading
Social Call
Published in New Media Age 15.06.06: Gustav Söderström is sitting in a hotel bar in Stockholm looking at the profile of a 23-year-old woman. This isn’t some seedy chatroom on his laptop, though. He’s taking part in a social experience … Continue reading
YelloWiki denies ‘passing off’ as Yell
YelloWikis may capitulate to Yell over their recent legal action due to lack of funds to fight a prolonged court battle. In an email interview with tbites, YelloWikis’ Paul Youlten said (words in bold are tbites’ emphasis): “We have to … Continue reading
MySpace goes into orbit
HitWise has the drop on MySpace today: “Myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users. To put MySpace’s growth in perspective, if we look back to July 2004 myspace.com represented only … Continue reading
New web magazine for online retail boom
Ian Jindal, lately publisher of EUBusiness.com, is now launch Editor at InternetRetailer.info (looks like they couldn't get the dotcom domain. The site is owned by Retail Events who cannily seem to be getting into Blogging as well. The folks over … Continue reading