French Content

I dropped in on WAT to take a look at what the French aggregator community is up to. WAT - We Are Talented, or We are TV - is a video blogging aggregator aimed at a creative user base.
So far there are over 4000 video blogs there, liberating their creativity. It’s something of a regret […]

More User Content, More Cooperation, Smart Advertising, Even Giving

Here are a few sites that I think point the way forward. That is to a visually rich world where a cooperative enterprise grows out of the web. We saw some of it yesterday in Shopwiki and we know the same spirit exists in TripAdvisor.
There’s also Hotelchatter, Jaunted and more impressively Yellow Arrow.

These are […]

Creation Nets

The early 21st century is breakout time for people who have spent their lives straightjacketed by information technology. Yes, kids use Bebo and MySpace but the rest of us who endured the previous generation of management by IT tools are looking for a bit of biography feel-good too.
The story begins with copier repair man. […]

Ooh TV

OOH TV! Beta ViewChannel

Well, I think it will do a lot more. Ooh has stuff that will appeal to kids who want to watch car-crash TV and indulge in the damage collateral side of life.
On the other hand not many channels are pumping stuff out to kids on art, art movies, museums and exhibits. […]

The philosophy

For the launch of 2006 Broadcast Live, a few words about the impact of IPTV, podcasting and blogs. Read More…

Closing the Gates

Thirty years of defining the nature of information technology, and latterly the future of gaming, and television, is tiring. Yes, I've decided enough is enough. I won't listen to Bill Gates any longer. Read More…

Flock It

I’ve been playing around with the beta of flock, the new browser that integrates with Flickr, delicious and your blog tools, as well as providing new search functions. At first glimpse flock looks like the integration a user like me needs. For example being slow on the uptake Read More…

Wiki’s Progress

Economists now use the Big Mac as a guide to inflation and the� cost of living� across the world, assuming that the price of the Big Mac will always tend towards equilibrium. In the IT business Microsoft might equally be used as a point of comparison for the popularity of community tools. If Microsoft start […]

Podcasting Matures

Just because I’m a low level user of mobile devices doesn’t mean they’re not the dog’s. Anyway Podcasts are the real democratiser and Podshow.com is doing a good job of becoming the meta site. So far I’m confused about what differentiates them from podcastalley and indiepodder. Hope to answer that in the next 24 hours.

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