Crazy But Big, Visual Identity
Content became a ubiquitous word about two years ago, the kind of appendage that first everything written, drawn, photographed, filmed, imagined, coded…. that’s one of the developments that makes understanding change difficult. In the amorphous new world of content weemee deserves a little praise.
London-based Weemee provides you with a visual identity for your online [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
European Web 2.0
Because I was traveling in France I started casting my eye around for European new media plays. The easiest way into it is to look at European Web 2.0.
Web 2.0 companies tend to congregate whereas media companies see the world in a more competitive light.
Jobneter is a UK site that aggregates job ads from [...]
Search Answerbus
I came across Answerbus when I began getting visitors directed from this natural language search engine. Like the name suggests Answerbus works on a Q&A basis which puts it in the Ask Jeeves category of search engine though its users think it is much better.
“AnswerBus is a new search engine that makes all the others [...]
Abazab and Myrick Showcase New Web/Rich Media Uses
News from Yahoo about a new Gearhead Productios initiative should see Abazab use creeping up and takes us another step along the road to a live performance web, and a deep layer of interaction as part of the creative process, something that creatives have started using to interact with audiences and refine cultural products.
This [...]
Dabble and Video Search, Media Organising and More
Dabble is about people describing, discovering and organizing video, wherever it’s found or hosted.
About Dabble | Dabble
That’s a short and sweet introduction to Dabble which has some powerful minds making video on the web searchable, organiseable and shareable.
Dabble CEO and founder is Mary Hodder, ex-Berkeley and an expert and advocate in social and aggregation software [...]