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 [...]
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 [...]
European Web 2.0 - Fon
FON is the largest WiFi community in the world, open to anyone who wishes to unite and connect to the Internet for free from any corner of the world without cables. It all started as a simple idea: enjoy WiFi technology everywhere across a WiFi infrastructure built by same members of the FON Community.
FON
And I’m [...]
European Web 2.0 - Pageflakes
Pageflakes, a service that allows you to customise your start page, is a German company founded by five guys with a track record in web entrepreneurship - seems to be a sign of the times in Web 2.0.
What I like about pageflakes - and judging by the number of comments on the company’s blog [...]
More European Web 2.0 - Gootza
Gootza is a French application that makes perfect sense. It digs into the detail of every day things to provide a recommendation service for just about anything people want.
It is both local and national. And it uses tags for a very sensible purpose.
Tags become directional - want to know where to get a fast [...]
Viacom and Adobe Ramp up Flash
Last week’s announcement that Viacom and Adobe are teaming up to develop new media applications, and have agreed to drive Viacom content through the Flash platform…. you know it’s going to make waves but does it make sense?
“This partnership with Adobe is an important step towards ensuring that our company has the most robust and [...]
European Web 2.0 - GDB TV And Mobile
GDB Television is a UK based provider of technologies that allow users to set up TV channels easily and cheaply.
Like vpod (see last post), the channels can deliver to PSP, Windows enabled mobile devices and of course the Internet and television sets.
Two is not a crowd but is this becoming a crowded market, [...]
European Web 2.0 Soonr
There’s a real logic to what soonr are doing. Europe has led the United States in mobile phone uptake and applications development so it should have a natural advantage in mobile phone applications. Soonr is proof of the pudding.
European Web 2.0 Revisited
Vpod.tv is French company with an crossplatform TV technology: “vpod.tv (Video Publishing On Demand) enables any consumer and corporation to easily create their own personal webTV and mobile TV.”
The examples given on the site are: an architect using the service to show clients work in progress on buildings, kids running their own entertainment channels [...]
User-Generated or Peer Production, The Power is Still In Distribution
Some of the decisions that old media companies make can be astonishing for their pack of purchase on the future. I’m thinking of the Irish Times buying an online property site owned by estate agents.
Frequently though I find myself slipping back into an old media frame of mind. I recently wrote about Daniel Myrick, co-director [...]