Digital Cinema
On September 14th China Blue opens in European digital cinemas. The film is in fact American in origin and it tells “a nuanced, tender and ultimately moving portrait of the daily lives of the young workers who make our clothes.”
Its subject matter is important but so to is the fact that the Internet now […]
What Will Happen to Mobile Content?
Ajit Jaokar is CEO of futuretext, a London based publisher that is documenting the future of mobile so a good person to talk to about where mobile content is headed.
I came to this conversation by way of Steve McCormack who runs Wildwave, a Dublin provider of mobile content to operators worldwide. Steve was pointing […]
That Old Pipeline Again - Eprécis
The people behind eprécis are clearly having fun.
The application summarises any text document (I know Word has that functionality too) but eprécis applies it to search returns.
In fact they have many applications areas but I trialed only the search returns element.
Enter your search term and eprécis will give you back your regular search return […]
In the Pipeline - European Web 2.0
European companies have been hoping for, and being funded for, a form of automated content brokerage for about 15 years now. Why it should obsess the European mind is a mystery but Telefonica researchers are at it now in conjunction with teams from Holland, France, Germany and the UK. Motorola is a partner.
The relevance of […]
European Web 2.0 mobile - Nimbuzz
Of course it’s in beta but with the problems of high charging on European mobile phones, particularly when users roam across national boundaries, Nimbuzz promises a noisy revolution.
I made note a couple of days back of a company that offers some of the Nimbuzz functionality eBuddy . But Nimbuzz goes much further. And the company […]
Collanos - European Web 2.0
Collanos is not in a direct line with our main concern which is the changing world of media and content and their impact but Collanos is interesting because of the company’s strategy.
HQ Zurich, office in San Francisco, coders in Bulgaria. The global start-up. But the company also has a strategy and isn’t just building software. […]
Personal TV and Performance TV Get Closer, European Web 2.0. Raw FLow, Self-Cast
It tends to happen under the radar of Web 2.0 commentary but the TV is where Web 2.0 will happen and some giant steps are being made in that direction.
London-based Rawflow, a start-up with a Danish background, is one of the pioneers. Already serving medium sized broadcasters, Rawflow is getting ready to launch personal TV […]
In the European Web 2.0 Pipeline
Citizen media to the average net-adept person means Joe Average going out and making movies to upload in the hope of being spotted as a future film maker or it means mobile phone movies that might get picked up on the nightly news, or it’s something that’s going on in the Bay area. But it […]
European Web 2.0 All Peers
AllPeers is a browser extension which combines “the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse.” I wonder if that was written before or after Flock launched.
AllPeers sell is that it uses an inteerface with no sign up or upload to allow you to share […]
Web 2.0 European Feeds 2.0
Feeds 2.0 is under development by GTP solutions of in Athens Greece. As yet it is in private Beta but this is whatw GTP say about it. And if it delivers I’d be a user.
Feeds 2.0 ranks posts according to the topics a particular user likes, and brings interesting articles first, based on what […]