Notes from lat 90mins Q: interested in the gameworld economics. Games were initially one track, single developers, now we keep expanding, now MMORG, more user generated.  Game developers are stepping back; where do you think the developers will end up? Will users have more control?   How do we move forward with game currency?  People do […]
Futures of Entertainment – User Generated Content
Notes….after first 45mins. User Generated Content Caterina Fake, Ji Lee, Rob Tercek, Kevin Barrett Caterina: we are coming back to a time when the producer and the consumer are one. People make their own content. The big bands are not a natural state of affairs…UGC is a return to this kind of activity. Rob: participatory […]
Futures of Entertainment – Television Futures
This is the first session from the Futures of Entertainment conference taking place at MIT this weekend. THis has been corrected for spelling not for sense. Television Futures Andy Hunter, Mark Warshaw, Josh Bernoff, Betsy Morgan Set the scene: Josh: speaking from a perspective of thinkers..people who have ideas about media. analysed this for 10 […]
IAB – Taking Control of UGC
Bad, bad title. Setting up everyone to believe you can take control of the masses out there. As was acknowledged eventually in the panel conversation, taking control is out of the question but it seems that none of the panel had questioned the title in preparation. Again, this is taken from rapidly scribbled notes. The […]
IAB – Fran Kelly keynote
Frank Kelly is the CEO of Arnold US and has written a book ‘The Breakaway Brand – How Great Brands Stand Out’. However, I found his talk about using interactive to help build brands extremely frustrating, with multiple asides and exclamation marks in my notes as he said something that I disagreed with or just […]
IAB – Total Communications Planning
Today, I spent some time at the IAB ‘Agency Summit’ which looked at interactive advertising. I took notes of a few of the sessions, the first being a look at Total Communications Planning. The panel comprised of: Bob DeSena, Managing Partner – Director of Active Engagement, Mediaedge:cia Louis Jones, EVP, Managing Director, Media Contacts Maria […]
BarcampNYC2
So BarCamp NYC2 has started. Microsoft have opened up their offices for us, the coffee is here, the bagels and muffins are tasty and the first set of sessions have started. Looking at the attendee list, a cool mix of people.
NextFest Visit
Nextfest is on at the moment in New York and I took a few hours out this morning to wander round. Lots of photos to be uploaded and it’s well worth taking at look at Rocketboom which showcases one of my favourites, the pettable seals. C ute, soft, furry, big eyes, pitiful sounds, you just […]
BarCamp and DRM protest
For people in New York and not going to BarCamp, an alternative is a protest against DRM outside the Apple Store organised by the DefectiveByDesign group. Kicking of a week of activities to raise awareness about DRM. FreeCulture. and DefectiveByDesign will be teaming up to help organize this action outside Apple’s flagship store in New […]
Corporate Blogging Conference
On Monday, I presented at my first conference, a Corporate Blogging Conference run by BFI. It was more by default then anything else, as the organisers were contacted me originally to try and get hold of someone from the Guinness team who worked on their blog. In the end I gave a talk about the […]
PhoneCon
Jeneane ran an interesting experiment today…PhoneCon. It was a test of the scaleability of freeconferencecall.com to see if it really did scale up to 96 users for up to 6 hours. I only managed to get into the last 15 mintues but they were fun, with story telling and songs. The system seemed to work […]
Barcamp London
Where has the time gone..it’s been a week since I’ve been on here. No matter..here;s something you need to sign up for quickly – Barcamp London. Taking place in the Yahoo offices during the first weekend in September, there’s a limited number of spaces which are going fast.
HOPE: Literacy and Gutenberg
In one of the talks on Friday, on text to speech software, a series of statistics about the US reading habits were thrown up on the screen. Co-incidently (i think) the same set of stats appeared on on Jeff Jarvis’s blog, sourced from Dan Poynter. One-third of high school graduates never read another book for […]
Hope: Privacy is Dead
I was looking forward to the Privacy is Dead panel at Hope today. Someone had volunteered to be the target and Steve Ramban, from Pallorium Ltd, had spent time gathering all the information he could, producing about a 500 page dossier. Instead, we were told that Steve had been arrested the evening before by FBI […]
HopeNumberSix
I’m spending the next few days at a conference, a rather different type than the one I usually go to. I’m at Hope Number Six, where hope stands for Hackers of Planet Earth. Three days of talks about all manner of subjects with a hacking connection with two main tracks plus a do it yourself […]
Virtual Conferencing – Bloggercon
I’m virtually attending bloggercon today (and a little Supernova). There’s audio stream, IRC and great notes in pretty much real time from Doc Searl. It;s happening tomorrow as well, so well worth a looksee.
WeMedia the conference
I spent some of the morning watching the WeMedia on video stream and via the online chat and IRC, then got to see a couple of sessions at the conference. There is a lot of blogging coverage about the event, some from participants, others from the virtual attendees. The blurb says “The We Media Global […]
Hogmanay Unconference
Ewan is trying to get an unconference up and running over Hogmanay in Edinburgh. Waht could be better – a couple of days learning and sharing and then a night at one of the best New Year Party’s in the world. If you’re interested, leave a comment on his blog.
Mix06: Beyond Banner Advertising
Advertsing 2 post My first panel today was entitled ‘Beyond the Banner: Advertising on the Web and where it is going’. The panel comprised: David Jakubowski – Microsoft (Facilitator) Jason Rapp NYT Ron Belanger – Yahoo Jennifer Slegg – JenStar Jed Nahum – Microsoft Adcentre Jeff Lanctot – Avenue A Bant Breeen Interpublic group The […]
Mix06: day 2
Last night there was a welcome party held in the mightclub at the hotel. There was a gap between the last session and the start of the party – in which time people started making their way to the club…but weren’t let in. Instead, they were directed to form a line. Which then proceeeded to […]