Category Archives: events
Interesting08: “To Thine Own Self Be True”
Last Saturday in London saw lots of people (including me) head down to Interesting 2008, a truly unique conference (I think just in its second year) ran by Russell Davies.
People like Ged, Roo and Annie Mole have already done some good write-up of the event so as something slightly different, I’ve given each (well nearly, [...]
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Thinking Micro
I went to the Chinwag Micro Media Maze event last night to talk about micro media and web stuff. The panel was really good and included Umair Haque (Director, Havas Media Lab / Bubblegeneration), Gerd Leonhard (Media Futurist, Author, Entrepreneur), Mitch McAlister (Product Director (Europe), MySpace), Miles Lewis (SVP, European Advertising Sales, Last FM) and [...]
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Google UK, now in black (today only)
Google in the UK has “turned its lights out” today in support of Earth hour. Nice. But the best thing, Blackle is most definitely put in its place for once and all.
As to why we don’t do this permanently – it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of [...]
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Live hugging and other green things
Been meaning to write about Do The Green Thing for ages and now the guys over there have given me a really good reason to.
Right now, there’s some Do The Green Thing people cooped up in a cold room waiting for people like you and me to go there and give them ‘hugs’. Using [...]
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Notes from IAB Engage 2007: better late than never
So, IAB Engage 2007 was on Wednesday last week. I was there with Bite client Facebook and got to sit on some of the morning presentations. I hashed out some notes on my phone and have just got round to beaming them, doing a bit of formatting and adding in the links. Some really useful [...]
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Webby award winners announced
So, the “Oscars of the Internet” are announced and I’m incredibly pleased that Bite client Zopa won. Well done everyone involved, obviously including the nice people at Poke.
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Notes from PR Unspun
Last night I went to the PR Unspun event laid on by Chinwag. Some great speakers (including Neville Hobson who had some great things to say), held together rather nicely by Mike Butcher and some really good little nuggets in there. But, on the whole felt all a bit “Yeah, Yeah”. All the questions were [...]
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2gether08: Live video stream