I’m presenting at the Meeting Professionals International event in London in April: the Europeans Meetings and Events Conference. (Yes, the meta-ness of speaking at a conference about conferences is not lost on me). I was invited to do something on Web 2.0 and ‘where is technology headed’. After some thought, I’ve written up some notes …
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Watchification
I’ve been helping out as the ‘chief engineer’ at Speechification for a while, and I’m now proud to be joining Russell and Steve in making Watchification happen too. The aim of the project is reassuringly simple: in the same way that Speechification curates speech radio from around the world, we want to make it easy …
X is the new Y for 2007
The Boston Globe’s Ideas section today features an updated version of my “X is the new Y” diagram. [Update: it’s actually the front page feature of the Ideas section. Thanks to Kelly for the picture…] Originally inspired by the LeisureArts chart from 2005, I decided to bring the idea up to date in September. Essentially, …
Flickr Stats
Flickr is great, isn’t it? Last week, they introduced in–browser photo editing (via Picnik), and this Thursday they added stats. If you’re a Pro user, go and activate stats for your account. I think you’ll like it. By digging around my stats, I now know that this generated ‘fractal flame’ picture (generated using Apophysis) appears …
I’m not (just) a blogger
I blog, but I tend not to call myself a ‘blogger’ these days. On my twitter profile, and indeed on an early batch my Moo cards, it used to say “Metaverse Evangelist | Blogger | Geek”, but more recently I’ve been dropping the ‘blogger’ bit, since I don’t think it defines me. I mentioned this …
Thoughts on TV Licensing
I recently wrote about the iPlayer, and made a throwaway comment about not having a TV licence, yet enjoying the ability to finally be able to legally watch TV programmes online, on my Mac. It sparked quite a discussion. Nick Reynolds (no relation) of the BBC kindly pointed out the new licence fee page on …
BBC iPlayer gets (a little bit) better
If you really know me, you know two fact about me: I’m quite tall. (at 6′ 4½”) I don’t have a TV license (though I do have a TV, connected to a Wii and a Mac Mini) The first fact means I don’t mind standing near the back of gigs. The second fact means that …
ffffound
ffffound.com (closed beta. Sorry, no invites left) is really very lovely. This: del.icio.us crossed with Clipmarks crossed with Flickr. It’s social bookmarking for images. It’s also a lot simpler than del.icio.us. As nice as that simplicity is, there’s a big part of me that really wants it to support tagging. I’ll try to share inspirational …
Web 3.0?
Richard Wallis of Talis recently asked some questions on his blog. Do you think Web 3.0 will be the label of the next technology wave? Will the next wave be based on Semantic Web technologies? Does it matter what we call it? I have a bit of an affinity with Talis, since they also employ …
Here Comes Another Bubble
Ze Frank recently linked to a wonderful Web 2.0 parody song/video called ‘Here Comes Another Bubble‘ by an a cappella group called The Richter Scales. It’s brilliant. I particularly like this moment from 1:36, with Scoble being used as the backdrop to “blog even if you’re wrong”. Much as I enjoy it, I would make …