Internet World Wednesday Day 2 Recap
My first Internet industry conference expo thingy was very interesting to say the least. In a previous life I attended Informex USA and Chemspec Europe as a glorified salesman carting my laptop around the exhibition halls demonstrating and selling AgriBase.
This time all I am armed with is a pen and paper (mainly because there […]
We Tell Stories: Penguin’s Digital Innovation Goes From Strength To Strength
Penguin’s gone digital and innovative again. We Tell Stories is a Google Maps mash-up that integrates locations with a story specially written for the project. Oh and a bit of Alternative Reality Gaming. The first story is ‘The 21 Steps’ by Charles Cumming. The first installment of We Tell Stories starts in King’s Cross.
The Press […]
Brylcreem’s MySpace Campaign Wins Creative Circle
We’re always really happy when anything we’ve been involved in wins recognition and so we were delighted that the Brylcreem Effortless campaign, for which we managed the online activity, won a Creative Circle for Best Multimedia Campaign last night.
The whole campaign was based on a great idea from the guys at WCRS, to find the […]
New BBC Homepage? It’s Rather Excite(ing)
This week saw the launch of the new BBC homepage which has, unsurprisingly, generated a large amount of comment, including this interesting post by Tom about whether this means that BBC.co.uk will end up being a competitor to Google.
Whilst the comments on the new design have been mixed one thing that strikes me is […]
Earth Touch: It’s Like Attenborough 2.0
A message on Facebook this morning from an old school friend prompted me to have another look at the site he has set-up in his new home of South Africa. I say that so that there are no doubts about the fact that I know the guys running it; that being said, I wouldn’t write […]
Joost May Have Gone Into Public Beta But It Still Takes Them 77 Days To Reply To An Email
So after what is potentially the largest private beta ever with over 1m subscribers, Joost has finally opened its doors to everyone else and gone into Public beta mode.
As I am now a full time linux user I can’t run the application but by all accounts from using it in previous version it seems […]
Secret Skype Conversation Leaked…
The Guardian has published “an amazing Skype Instant Messenger transcript” which seems to detail a conversation between Meg Whitman, eBay CEO, and Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom. It makes for fascinating reading.
@megwhitman: um, need to say something. You remember we paid $1.6bn for Skype and promised you up to $1.7bn in earnouts and other things for […]
London’s Wi-Fi Mile
Anybody who’s spent an afternoon walking around Upper Street, iBook in hand, trying to log on to Islington council’s “Technology Mile” service may smirk, but a new report says Londoners are the most wifi-happy people on the planet.
According to the Wi-Fi Hotspot Index, networks set up by the likes of BT and The Cloud in […]
Microsoft To Take Stake In Facebook: Is It To Keep Google At Bay?
There are reports this morning that Microsoft is planning to take a 5% stake in Facebook which would value the social networking site at $10 billion. This is quite an increase on the $7 billion that was mentioned in the last round of rumours surrounding Facebook, and makes the $1 billion that Yahoo! apparently offered […]
Let The Web Get You Home
I’m about to take my cold and try to get home through Tube-free London. The lovely folks over at the Media Guardian blog have put together a list of some of the more interesting sites relating to travel, particularly in London. For the majority of the country not stuck in London, I apologise - although […]
