Going to 3GSM
I’ll be at 3GSM in Barcelona next week. See you there if you’re going!
Covering Future of Web Apps conf
There’s nothing like being surrounded by 800 Geeks. You start talking in code – Ajax, RSS, tags, XUL.
Open-sourced bar codes for crafts-people?
Here in Helsinki I met up with Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, Researcher, at the University of Helsinki. She has some fascinating ideas about the “Long Tail“. In part because of creating Hobbyprincess.com, which was about how you get girls developing technology and blogging about crafts, she got interested in the idea that the stuff which people make – perhaps a coat or a sculpture – will drop off the ‘long tail’ because
More random findings from Sweden (Scandinavia trip)
One person I spoke here to estimated there are now 5,000 daily Swedish blogs, although it’s in online communities that Swedes have largely collected, somewhat reflecting the left-leaning community spirit of the culture which grew out of its 60s socialist roots. Ericsson is gaining ground on Nokia amongst the Swedes, who often shunned the rather unsexy phones produced by their home-grown firm in favour of Finalnd’s finest. This is in
So to Stockholm… (and Helsinki and Tallinn)
I’m in Stockholm this week (till Friday) researching tech, media and mobile companies here for the The Guardian and New Media Age magazine, among others. Email me if you fall into that category and want to meet up. Likewise if you are in Helsinki – where I’ll be from Friday to Tuesday, or Tallinn (Estonia) on Wednesday… I’ve already had a great meeting tonight with Henrik Torstensson of Torstensson.com.
Web 2.0 means marketing is in trouble
A lot of the discussion about the so-called new wave of “Web 2.0” has centred around technology. But what effect is this new era going to have on marketing? “Web 2.0” as a phrase first appeared in the title of an O’Reilly conference in 2004. It was obviously boosterish, and took advanatge of the new wave of web companies doing strange new things with RSS and the like. Web 2.0
Odeo’s Evan Williams and the Craigslist guys speak in Oxford
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
Steve does it again
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
Mobile craps all over Internet World, but is destined to repeat history
I went to Internet world in Earls Court today. Put it this way. There were lots of servers and lots of vendors of content management software. (Someone should tell them about Open Source and blogging). But the real buzz was around the New Media Marketing Seminar Tent. Everyone seems to have realised they have no idea what to do, now they actually have the servers and the web site and
It’s over
It looks like the landslides are over for Labour. Meantime, The blogs rattled on. The BBC one was pretty thin. The Guardian’s better. My favourites gadgets were on the BBC site, especially the swingometer – aiding ready reckoning on the swing as the numbers came in. Watching TV, The BBC had the better line-up of pundits I think, but Sky’s coverage was graphically intersting, if a bit over the top