Tokyo, Japan, Day 3. Today was a day built on changes. The original plan was to visit a bunch of museums, all around Ueno Park. The problem was that neither of us had properly read the guidebooks and failed to realise that they all close on a Monday! We first of all wondered through the […]
Japan Day 2: Tokyo continues
An early awakening, 6am, but nothing earlier than usual. So jetlag appears to not be hitting too hard today. First up, the hotel breakfast. Rice and meatballs and miso soup. Plus coffee and chocolate bread. Today was going to be a fairly light day. We caught the tube over to Shibuya to take a look […]
Tokyo Day 1
After landing in Tokyo this morning, I can say that the extra money spent on flying Premium Economy was well worth it. I got some sleep (thanks to super-duper earplugs that managed to block out most of the crying and screaming baby) plus enough room to get comfortable. It was an easy trip into town […]
The London Marathon
You know, some things seem like a good idea at the time. Way back in April, before I’d ever run my first race, the ballot for the 2014 London Marathon opened and the proceeded to close pretty quickly. 125,000 people signed up for the possibility of 25,000 places in the London Marathon. I was one […]
SMW13: Social, Sport and ROI
Hosted by:Richard Ayres, CEO Seven League @7League @richardayers Panel: Xavier Bidault, NBA @NBAUK; Abigail Sawyer, The Jockey Club @TheJockeyCLub @ajesawyer ; Richard Clarke Arsenal @Arsenal @MrRichardClarke The premise of the panel Is the ability to influence your sporting community and the wider media landscape through social media is a blessing or a curse? Is there […]
Meeting the challenge
Way back in January, I took at look at my ambitions for 2013. One f them, in typical New Year fashion, as a physical change. I’d tried before, and failed, but hoped that by adding another dimension to my tracking would make a difference. And it absolutely did. Using the Fitbit, Myfitnesspal and a long […]
LeWeb London: Peer to Peer lending
Sharing Economy Money Panel Moderated by: Nina Dos Santos, News Anchor & Correspondent, CNN World Business Today Samir Desai, Co-Founder & CEO, Funding Circle Raffael Johnen, Co-Founder & CEO, Auxmoney.com Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club For established industries, the sharing marketplace — with rapidly shifting social, cultural, and technological disruptions — is forcing them to […]
LeWeb London: Chris Guillebeau
Chris Guillebeau, Writer, Entrepreneur and Traveler I was thinking about what can I share, what can I contribute to this conversation. I wanted to talk about adventure and travel. But adventure is almot an opposing value to optimisation, efficiency etc. I recently finished an adventure to visit every country in the world, over 11 years. […]
LeWeb London: John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow, Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation Photo by:Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/ I’ve been a hippie since sometime in 1965,when I quit being a beatnik. I’m fine with it, as part of what it’s meant, is that I know which side I am on in the struggle between certical and horizontal, religion and net and […]
LeWeb London: Nick Halstead and Data
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, […]