The Web Going Forward. Stop Making Sense
Well stop making a certain kind of sense. Checking through the projects in the European pipeline you have to say it’s a bit like one of those old fashioned oil storage depots - full.
I’ve been involved in a couple of EU workshops to witness the high level of enthusiasm of people who didn’t get burned [...]
American Innovation Leadership Down. The Herring Swims to Europe
For nigh on a decade Red Herring epitomised, reported on and indulged American innovation leadership. So why’s it headed to Europe?
A couple of weeks back over at technologvoices, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a V-P of innovation at IBM raised the issue that America’s lead in innovation is at risk. And the Herring’s journey across the gulf stream [...]
What Do You Want to Watch Today? Text? On TV?
This morning I tried a simple test of my favourite viewing and realised it was text. Have SKY subscription can read words on a screen. Is it the impact of doing so much work on a PC that when I go home one of the first things I want to do is get SKY’s eight [...]
Vodeo’s European Web 2.0 Adventure
Vodeo is a user of the Vpod platform and has some great ideas about where to take video-on-demand.
Vpod, by the way is improving its list of user-sites and looks to be developing a tighter commercial focus - currently they are hiring 25 people.
Vodeo currently has a library of around 1200 films, in French, [...]
E-Buddy European Web 2.0 Mobile
Perhaps it’s the failing eye sight but much as I love my mobile phone, I just can’t see it. The screen that is. So the ever escalating world of mobile services and content passes me by.
The Dutch company e-buddy is a web application that enables you to chat with your MSN, AOL and Yahoo buddies [...]
ESnips. European Web 2.0s That Are Ready For TV
At the back end of last year I did a couple of writing jobs that gave me a peek inside the future world of television.
One was with a software department at a global company that is preparing a slew of buddy-type services for the IPTV world.
I think their vision is about right - the TV [...]
Are New “News” Sites Really Conformity Engines?
When Netscape appeared, or re-appeared, but became an online user-generated news-site, the question blogged interminably at first was: is this just a copy of Digg?
There are many questions left to ask about Netscape’s UCG news-site but any doubt about it being a replica should be now closed off - it ain’t. And the dangers [...]
Open Street Map - The World, Collaborate. Web 2.0 Europe
Open Street Map is a wiki type product that seeks to map the streets of planet earth.
The aims of the service are laudable. Cooperate on producing a map of the whole earth and you get a free map of everywhere.
It’s one of a growing number of open data projects, including upcoming digital libraries from companies [...]
Connotea - Applying Those Social Values to Science. Web 2.0 Europe, European Web 2.0
Nature happens to be one of the most important publishing groups in science but that hasn’t stopped it becoming an innovator and a flag waver for Web 2.0 Europe.
It’s application of social media should finally force us to think beyond link sharing (which is effectively what Digg et all become) to more purposeful [...]
Media Republic and Those Second Life Games - More European Web 2.0
Second Life is, I believe, destined to become a verb and adjective, perhaps even an adverb. Did you Second Life it? You know, it was so much like Second Life-like? Media Republic is trying out some Second Life-like games.
Based in Amsterdam with an eye next on the UK market, Media Republic’s Eccky is [...]