Nick Halstead, Founder & CTO, DataSift Inc How Social Sharing Built a Billion Dollar Market Nick Halstead has been at the heart of the social sharing economy for five years, creating the world’s first social sharing button and building a business upon the data that it generated. Nick will talk about the evolution of the […]
LeWeb London: Comments on Google Glass
Boys and their Toys – The Google Glass Phenomenon Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author Rackspace Ben Metcalfe, Co-host, LeWeb’13 London Co-Founder, WP Engine Loic will be joined by Robert Scoble and Ben Metcalfe for this sure to be entertaining session.  Hear from these ultra early adopters their […]
LeWeb London: Snapsation
Chris Chabot, Founder & CEO, Snapsation Chris has been a driving force of the social web for as long as it’s been been around. As a lead engineer on OpenSocial, Developer Advocate for Google on open web standards, and a founding member of the Google+ team, he’s always worked on creating new connections between people […]
LeWeb London: Julien Smith and Breather
Julien Smith, CEO, Breather With a dynamic team such as Julien & Alex, their new venture is sure to be disruptive. Julien, a New York Times bestselling author, who’s work focuses on adaptation and change, but not the “think out of the box†clichés that most companies embrace. Instead, his work draws from a deep […]
LeWeb London: Collaborative Economy
Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group The Collaborative Economy: How People, Startups, and Corporations build a new Market Industry Analyst Jeremiah Owyang, will share findings from a recent research on the Sharing Economy. He’ll highlight the trends in the startup space, including verticals served, funding, and forecast what types of startups that will make it –and […]
LeWeb London: Movement of the Sharing Economy
 Douglas Atkin, Head of Community & E-staff Member, Airbnb Photo by: “Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/” Wants to talk about a movement for the sharing economy. To grow the community. Grow the collective power. To stand up against the entrenched interests that stands in their way. Why? There is an opportunity. There is enthusiasm. The players […]
LeWeb London: AirBnB
Joe Gebbia, Co-Founder, Airbnb & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb Photo by: “Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/” Joe talked about how he set up, the idea behind it. It was triggered by a huge conference, filling up the hotels and decided to see if there was a way to connect people to the space in his […]
LeWeb London: Tech City
Joanna Shields, Chief Executive, Tech City Investment Organisation & Matt Cowan, Writer & Broadcaster An interview with Joanna, again all about London and the start up scene – the role of TechCity. (There was little actual information/evidence – just a general talk) Photo by: “Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/” Some points: They have changed the investment […]
LeWeb London: The London Startup scene
Welcome to London! Moderated by Ben Metcalfe, Co-host, LeWeb’13 London Co-Founder, WP Engine Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder, PROfounders Capital, Chairman, made.com & Founder & Chairman, mydeco.com Eric Van der Kleij, Head of Level39 Eze Vidra, Head of Campus, Google ; Photo by “Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/” BM: what changes have been happening in London? BH: there […]
LeWeb London: An Intro
For the next few days, I’m at Le Web London which is all about the sharing economy. There’ll be lots of liveblogging! Loic Le Meur introduced the 2 day programme, welcoming everyone and opening the sessions with his definition of the sharing economy. A quick summary of his Slide Share talk: There is a new […]
OMG..they changed Flickr!
If you want to protest against the Flickr changes, it appears the best way to do so is to KEEP PAYING THE SUBSCRIPTION! Somewhere in Yahoo!, there’s a spreadsheet. On it, there’s a financial model for Flickr. Bought by Yahoo all those years ago, left in a corner with only the occasional bit of love, […]
2013 Week 11
Mar 9th through to Mar 15th Behind, behind, behind. I do so much typing at work I get home and I do nothing but read. Input vs output. What is best. So what was I reading? Reading Social Media Sustainability Index – a look at how big companies are using their social media presence to […]
2013 Week 10
2 Mar to 8th Mar After the quiet of last week, this week was a little more exciting. Reading Reinventing sustainability: Why brand talk about responsibility is cheap. I’m working on some sustainability projects at work and slowly adding to my reading. This reflects research that we have done, in that you need to act […]
2013 Week 9
Sat 23rd Feb – Fri 1 Mar You’d think i could do this, wouldn’t you. One post a week, that’s all I need. But no, I end up doing other things over the weekend and then at work time and the one post gets left behind until major catch up sessions like this one! So […]
Red Dawn Screening
Last week I went to a preview screening for Red Dawn (the 2012 version, not the one that was released in 1984). It was a blogger screening (or at least a blog readers screening) that I had won from Mel at Miss Geeky. I’ve been lucky this year with Mel – I’d previously won a […]
2013 Week 8
A quick follow up to catch up the weeks. Reading Fitbit talks about tracking and privacy. I’m using a Fitbit and I love it. Just wearing it makes me think about being more active, to climb the stairs instead of the escalator. As mentioned in the article, the ecosystem is great and I hope increased […]
2013 Week 7
Nearly the end of Feb and I’ve managed to miss a week. Didn’t last too long then! That’s what going on holiday does, trying to rush to get everything sorted. So let’s catch up forstly with week 7. Reading American Express launch ‘Pay with a tweet hashtag‘. The ability for people who have linked their […]
2013 Week 6
Where’s it going. the diary clicks forward day by day and the year creeps forward. Week 6, that’s over 10% gone already. Reading A Primer on the US TV business. A great rundown on all the different players in the US TV market. Even if you don’t agree, what they are doing impacts the rest […]
2013 Week 5
So that’s one month down, 11 to go. January, the month of resolutions and changes; a month of waiting for payday as Christmas and a usual early December payday take their toll. How was it for you? Reading Article from the New York times on quiet coaches. Totally agree with this, that it is a […]
2013 Week 4
Reading A list of the 33 most creative women in advertising. (Why 33, no idea!). I’ve worked with one (Colleen DeCourcy) and have loved the work of the others. Women make up only 3% of creative directors in this male-dominated industry, but there are slow moves to change this The US PGA enforcing bans on […]