Broadband Claims, A Little Dubious
Charles Leadbeater writing in the Observer Sunday believes broadband access is our most potent way to promote democracy. The article was also a page long ad promoting Charle’s book, We Think. We Think is an extended essay on content co-creation and Charles consults on these issues.
“In time even top-down public services will feel the power […]
Great Content is not Necessarily Professional Content
Cross Media week touched on this issue in a session led by Gabe McIntrye of xolo.tv. Xolo is suddenly a multifaceted business so cutting to the quality content chase takes a detour.
Gabe makes vlogs for clients. That’s one line of business. See here at vlogbymini.de, a multilingual site all about the mini and mini […]
XOLO.tv - On the Road to Content 2.0
Having blogged earlier about video aggregators (see below) I came across XOLO.tv,a Dutch aggregator of video bloggers. XOLO are yet to launch but I’m in Amsterdam at the end of the week and hope to meet the guys there and will report back.
Book Reviews as Web Content
Book Revyoo | Review Books | Read, Rate Reviews
It’s a great idea and one that should feed off all the book exchange going on out in the physical world. My first impression though is that bookrevyoo is stuck in the technology area and stuck in what will come to be seen as the web 2.0 […]
Dealing With All That Information
Blogbridge is a way of organising feeds coupled to a system of subjects expert who are…. organising feeds. It’s an open source package. And it lets you synch between your different computers (a facility I din’t try). It proposes feeds to you as well as letting you build up a visual bank of feeds you […]
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 […]
Another Wrestling Match With New Content
I’ve been corresponding with Ted Shelton CEO of personalbee, a place where my blog appears.
Ted’s philosophy for personalbee is is to bring some coherence to the media world and how we get to know things. It goes like this.
There’s something in the language people use to discuss issues that a computer can extract […]
What’s Happening to News?
I got talking with Laurence Timms this morning, author of blog aggregator Chuquet, a UK product that nonetheless finds itself focusing on American high tech debates. Chuquet works by aggregating blogs based on their common links.
The subject of our discussion: What is happening with news information? Is aggregation providing a better or more satisfying […]
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, […]
The Fusion of Virtual And UGC
Kaneva, or in Latin blank canvas, is another company trying to work out how to take the MySpace/Youtube consumer mentality and raise the cultural bar.
In doing so it skirts around some of the key issues in contemporary media, so let’s take a look.
Founded by Christopher C Klaus it is still in Beta. At first glance […]