Sebastien de Halleux, Co-Founder, Playfish & VP, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships,EA Interactive. Q&A with Veronica Belmont, Host, Tekzilla WARNING: Liveblogged, some paraphasing, some things probably missed. Video below Photo by Adam Tinworth VB: a lot of games out there are derivitive..how will that change SH: there’s very few of the web people out there […]
LeWeb10 Mike Jones MySpace
Mike Jones, CEO, MySpace Q&A with Robert Scoble, American Blogger, Tech Evangelist & Author WARNING – liveblogged, some paraphrasing, some things may be missing Photo from Adam Tinworth RS: so what is it like trying to save this company? MJ: big changes. Launched new product about 15 days ago… RS: only 1-2% of this audience […]
LeWeb10 Jason Goldman Twitter
Jason Goldman, VP of Product, Twitter Q&A with MG Siegler, Writer, TechCrunch LIVEBLOGGED -some paraphrasing..some bits missed. Video at bottom of post Photo from Adam Tinworth MG: you’ve just launched some new integrations? JG: yes, Instagram, full music, lots of other things MG: do you see the right pane as a new platform for people […]
LeWeb10 Ethan Beard Facebook
Ethan Beard, Director, Facebook Developer Network, Facebook Q&A with Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch LIVEBLOGGED: so some paraphrasing possible. Video at bottom of post Picture from Adam Tinworth. MA: are you continuing to deny the Facebook phone is real? EB: yes. I am ready to deny. The windows phone used Facebook to connect and that’s one […]
LeWeb10 Charlie Kindel Microsoft
Charlie Kindel, GM, WP7 Developer Ecosystem, Microsoft Corporation Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb WARNING – LIVE BLOGGED, so somethings may be missing. Video below I’m trying to blog this, but as an interview it’s a little all over the the place and there’s not a lot of new information – so here’s some […]
LeWeb10 Carlos Ghosn Renault
Carlos Ghosn, Chairman & CEO, Renault S.A. & Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Q&A with Loïc Le Meur WARNING: Liveblogged..some paraphrases, somethings may be missing. Video below The car industry was started by entrepreneurs. There was lots of innovation. Renault, from marketing, knew about brand image and marketing, how car races could drive the brand. opening […]
Impressions from Over the Air
It’s autumn and Over The Air has come around again. A mobile hacking camp with some really decent talks, it’s a regular fixture, a place i come to and listen to stuff I only just about understand whilst pretending to build things. This year, I made it to far more talks than usual, some not […]
F1 FOTA Fan Forum
You may have noticed a stream of blog posts live-blogging the F1 FOTA Fan Forum last Thursday. This was the first event of its kind for the sport, coming out of blog comments on James Allen’s website. It was first come, first served for places and 150 of them were taken up within 24 hours. […]
F1 FOTA Fan Forum – New Teams and Driver Skill
This is live blogged at the Santander F1 FOTA Fan Forum. It will possibly contain errors and missed sentences. For the full story, make sure you catch the videos later. Updated 4/7: added video Luca Coliani Tony Fernandes James Allen Martin Whitmarsh Jock Clear Paul Di Resta ?? How are the new teams? TF: we […]
F1 FOTA Fan Forum – Environment
This is live blogged at the Santander F1 FOTA Fan Forum. It will possibly contain errors and missed sentences. For the full story, make sure you catch the videos later. Updated 3/7 with video Luca Coliani Tony Fernandes James Allen Martin Whitmarsh Jock Clear Paul Di Resta JA: FOTA announced about cut in carbon emissions, […]
F1 FOTA Fan Forum – Cost vs Innovation
This is live blogged at the Santander F1 FOTA Fan Forum. It will possibly contain errors and missed sentences. For the full story, make sure you catch the videos later. Update 2/7: Video added Luca Coliani Tony Fernandes James Allen Martin Whitmarsh Jock Clear Paul Di Resta Joe Cardoza: So McLaren with Fduct, then copied, […]
F1 FOTA Fan Forum – The Overtaking Question
This is live blogged at the Santander F1 FOTA Fan Forum. It will possibly contain errors and missed sentences. For the full story, make sure you catch the videos later. Update 2/7: I’ve added the video Luca Coliani Tony Fernandes James Allen Martin Whitmarsh Jock Clear Paul Di Resta Christopher Nolan: F1 has reached a […]
F1 FOTA Fan Forum – Fan Experience and Show
This is live blogged at the Santander F1 FOTA Fan Forum. It will possibly contain errors and missed sentences. For the full story, make sure you catch the videos later. Update 2/7: I’ve added the video from the event Luca Coliani Tony Fernandes James Allen Martin Whitmarsh Jock Clear Paul Di Resta Q: Daniel Hughes. […]
SXSW: Andrea Phillips ARGS and the hot Brunette
LIVEBLOGGED: taken during talk, so any mistakes are mine. Andrea Phillips ARGS and Women A freelance game designer and writer, involved since they started. Also Chair if IGDA SIG ARG argology.org One of community moderators of Cloudmakers, one of the key moments in ARGS, when we recognised that something had happened. One of the ingredients […]
SXSW: Chris Messina and Actvity Streams
LIVEBLOGGED – so pretty much as said Google Data Liberation – most excited to be part of this team Ingeneral, interested in generative systems and structures, rhizomatic structures, built into the fabric of how they work. Start spill with constructs that grow into the systems. Thats how it all started, hashtags etc. As in The […]
FOE: Free? Contemporary Media Business Models
WARNING: Liveblogged and not checked While the industry discussion has meandered from questions surrounding the validity of the ‘Long Tail’ to a debate about the notion of “free†and the generation of value itself – viable business models have begun to emerge. In these models, fan communities continue to figure prominently, as do monetized value […]
FOE: Unboxing the Medium
WARNING: Liveblogged and not checked What counts as “radio†when it comes via podcast rather than over the air? How do we create “television†as the limitations of spectrum scarcity slip away and content is delivered online? Media is determined by conventions that emerge from both technological constraints and cultural practices – the technologies of […]
FOE: Producing Transmedia Experiences: Participation & Play
WARNING: Liveblogged, not checked. While much of the discussion around transmedia tends to focus on the idea of non-linear storytelling, this panel will explore the idea that transmedia experiences — narrative-driven and otherwise — are also characterized by a high degree of audience participation, decision-making and collaboration. As users engage with transmedia narratives, worlds and […]
FOE: The ROI of ROFL: Why Understanding Popular Culture Should Matter to the C-Suite
WARNING: LIVEBLOGGED so not checked. (Also this was a fairly chaotic panel, so not everything captured) Too many corporations outsource their understanding of culture to trend hunters, cool watchers, marketing experts, consulting firms, and, sometimes, teenage interns. The cost is in the billions, for data and insights that often don’t help companies better understand their […]
FOE: Transmedia for Social Change
WARNING LIVEBLOGGER – not checked. Session 3: Transmedia for Social Change This panel will broaden the discussion of transmedia properties to areas beyond the commercial or promotional. What are the potentials for transmedia to be used to affect social change? What parallels can we draw between the activities fan communities and other sites of collective […]