YMOGEN

This is from Ymogen, a UK mobile web community builder. I find it fascinating:

As part of the mobile and web community CMS development, an exploratory research project is being conducted with BBC Innovation Labs and Nokia, using location-based story-telling and its implications for citizen journalism.
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Mobile Social Networks with That UGC Factor Built In

The developers at game array are hoping to take user generated content into the mobile games arena, along with a little social networking. Games are an area I’m concious of neglecting. I’m not a gamer, though all my children are and I have a feeling that in the fan and game culture is a little […]

The Billions $ User Generated Content

Plenty of enterpreneurs have been complaining about the lack of adventure from VCs in supporting content related businesses so Post Le Web 3 I took a look around European web 2.0 commentary sites to see if there was a sensible point to make. One stop off was Coffee Shops of Mayfair, Paul Fishers VC blog.
What […]

Cap Digital - A Little More of that European Web 2.0

Cap Digital is an initiative for knowledge based and content companies in the Ile de France and it has some good ideas. It “articulates a new industrial vision for the Greater Paris Region, popularly and locally known as Ile-de-France or IDF which ranks as one of Europe’s top two business metropolitan hubs.”
The cap Digital […]

Future of the Internet

The EU is hosting a day’s mini-conference on the future of the Internet on December 15th.
Any longer term EU watchers will recognise a few of the names there as well as a really backward piece of EU planning. In fact the EU is currently getting things so wrong it’s a wonder there isn’t some […]

European Horizons in Paris

Platform European Grid is a Euro conference on GRID applications and it’s supposed to be looking at real life problems currently being resolved by GRIDs.
For the uninitiated a GRID is a piece of distributed computing power. It’s like sharing out idle processing and running it across hugely complex tasks. I was the rapporteur on […]

Start Pages and Groups Fitting Meet

An interesting conversation began yesterday over on Franck Poission’s site. It hasn’t gone far yet but here’s the principle behind it.
Startpages are a natural way for people to surf the web but also for content hodlers to serve an audience. So ESPN’s move into start pages is good.

Along comes entrepreneur Emre Sokullu, who is building […]

High Definition is Not an Innovation Too Far

In fact European cable companies and film makers are relying on it - they believe it will create a new market in home cinema that will suit the inherently long tail character of European movies (for which read small audiences).
From advanced TV:
Rainbow HD Holdings is launching a new global channel, VOOM HD, which will be […]

If 90% of Your Customers Are Offline….Lessons from db twang.

Google and Yellow Pages had a little head to head recently , in front of an audience of a thousand people. What they had to say to each other was fascinating.
Aren’t you guys competitors, the discussion moderator asked? After all you’re both chasing the local search market.
Not at all said the guy from Yell - […]

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PICNIC ‘06 :: Cross Media Week :: Thursday, September 28th

John De Mol is not a name those outside the TV business associate with revolutionary change. In fact let’s be honest, if you’re not Dutch or in the TV business you may never have heard of him. But De Mol has already changed your […]

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