European Web 2.0 Blogging Italia

I was visitatore anonimo at bloggers.it, anonymous visitor. Sometimes it hurts to walk through life so anonymously. let me say once again that European blogging sites that run parallel English versions are a great boon to us all, to culture, to friendship between nations….
I mean some of it.
Bloggers.it is actually more of a digg but [...]

On the Music Map with Jamendo

I wonder am I the only person in the English speaking world not to hear of Jamendo?

It’s a Luxembourg-based p2p music site but all its posts are in our language. It’s been going for over a year and there are now nearly 1800 albums on site to share, 42,00 members and around 25,000 album [...]

Google and Video Ads

There are plenty of clever ways to advertise on the web but clever for who? The Idea Dude some time back said that google ads depend in some immeasurable way on creating unsatisfying content on your site. People can’t find what they want so they’re tempted by a text link.
I’m sure it’s not anything like [...]

Google’s Belgian Woes,Microsoft’s Too

Microsoft and Google’s treatment in the Belgian courts is indicative of where EU thinking is going (or where it’s at). Belgium regards itself as the standard bearer for a European interpretation of economic law, just as France once did.
In the 1970s France set up a customs’ post in Poitiers, some miles inland to which Sony [...]

Next Gen Content - Image Metrics

The New York Times’ vidcast this morning reports on Image Metrics’ new image mapping software, a product that facilitates auto-generated animation for the movie industry.
It works like this - Image Metrics’ software allows film-makers to map the deteail of human performance, particularly facial performance and then to produce animation from it. Humans perform, the [...]

Google’s Double Plus Ungood

UPDATE - I posted this yesterday and then came across Damien Mulley’s woes later. It makes a disturbing read. Google removing his post from search returns?
Add to the following small catalogue of problems pointed out this weekend by the New York Times:
Click fraud coming back to haunt search ads according to the Washington Post and [...]

Mobile Movie Making Before Video Calls

It’s a surprise to see analysts focus on the mobile video phone call. The use of the mobile with video other than simply for recording is likely to take off in unexpected ways.
Already mobile video movies are becoming well established. One of many mobile movie festivals has just ended in Paris and there is now [...]

TV, IPTV Roundup

The week was marked by growing interest in how the future of TV will pan out on the web.
There was the realisation by Robert Scoble that vidcasting is less economic than he first thought, covered here, and a rumination by Mark Evans on how the web and TV together engage viewers better.
Mark was also [...]

Educators, Web 2.0 and the Content-Code Divide

News that University of Arizona is building a Web 2.0 course module had me thinking about conversations I’ve had recently about education and the web.
First the news: “With the help of IBM, the University of Arizona will put together a course designed to essentially teach people how to apply Web 2.0 services like BitTorrent, [...]

My Diet Friends

Mydietfriends.com is a site I’ve been working on with my wife Rose. Like many women she’s spent her life worrying about her weight. I don’t think she ever got to the bottom of why but now she has cancer it’s become a more pressing concern for us both.

So we decided to set up mydietfriends. The [...]

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