Opening up The Social Graph

Here’s a little nugget which could turn out to be something big. Google have announced their new Social Graph API.
In layman’s terms the social graph is the representation of me and my contacts, and how we relate to each other (the friends list on Facebook is a good example). Problem is, you build one set [...]

New Work: Impactt Ltd.

Impactt are one of the world’s leading ethical trade consultancies.  They work with many of the world’s leading companies to improve labour standards and have been pushing things forward in this field for ten years. Looking at their client list is like taking a walk down the high street and they’re hugely respected in the [...]

Some rather exciting news…

Since August I’ve been working as part of the New Media team at Maverick TV developing an idea for a major new project for Channel 4 Education. We’ve been looking at how to develop a web-based approach to supporting entrepreneurship amongst 14-19 year olds.
We’ve now been given the go ahead to start work on the [...]

Reality Estate: Singing Birmingham’s Truths on 28th October

Reality Estate is a rather large performance art event happening in Birmingham on October 28th 2007.
From the website:

300 participants
3 venues
3 professional, 3 community and 3 estate-led choirs
An audience of 3,000
1 aim: to sing Birmingham’s truths  
On 28th October 2007, REALITY ESTATE will transform the Five Ways Estate, Shopping Centre and roundabout.  Developed by Friction Arts [...]

Corporate videos and YouTube: A bad combination?

Oh happy day indeed.

Courtesy of Lloyd Davis

BBC Innovation Labs: How the West Midlanders got on

(NB apologies if you saw an earlier, mangled version of this post yesterday – my mistake!)
Last Friday (30th March) I went to the final day of the Southern BBC Innovation Labs on behalf of Digital Central
Here’s a quick run-down of the day, including a few interviews I did with some of those involved.
[12:00pm]
I’ve come down to the Spread [...]

Current TV looking for film and documentary makers

I spent an enjoyable half-hour this afternoon interviewing Emily Renshaw-Smith from Current TV for the next show in the New Media 4Casts series for 4Talent. The show will look at the opportunities opened up by new technology for film and documentary makers. It’s been a really interesting one so far and we should be online [...]

TV Still has its Hands Over its Ears.

Here’s a very good example of how some parts of the TV industry still have their heads buried firmly in the sand when it comes to how online video is going to radically change their business.
“The Long Tail…is not an economic reality and it has almost no relevance to the economics of the television business”. [...]

Brightcove: Set up your own online TV channel

I’ve just been having a play with Brightcove, a system which allows anyone to set up their own online TV channel. It’s quite like YouTube but much more geared to content producers who want to charge for what they want to do and make a business out of it. It has other advantages over [...]

What the Web Was Made For

The World Economic Forum are holding their Annual Meeting in a couple of weeks. The 2007 event is being held in Davos and features a pretty heavyweight of speakers including Mohammed Abbas, Mohammed El Baradei, Paul Wolfowitz and our own beloved PM.
Traditionally a fairly closed event, the WEF have decided to get communicating with the [...]