Archive for 'User Generated Content'

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 [...]

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Live Webcasting: The Next User Generated Phenomenon?

This article will appear on the Channel4 Ideasfactory website later on in November.
In the wake of Google’s acquisition of web wunderkind YouTube, everyone’s looking for the next big Internet phenomenon to push things forward again. And once we have the technology to make it available to all, argues Antonio Gould, live webcasting could be [...]

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How to make money when people copy your stuff

99% of everyone I’ve spoken to over the last year still doesn’t believe that anyone’s going to make any money out of peer to peer content sales over the internet. (i.e. I cheaply make some video, music, e-books or anything else and sell a copy to you directly and cheaply over the web without there being a [...]

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Online Communities for Creative People

This article will be published in the forthcoming edition of TEN4 magazine.
One of the Internet’s biggest success stories in recent years has been the rise and rise of online communities – sites that allow anyone, technically able or not, to communicate with each other and publish their own content.
Many of these websites centre on people [...]

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Plyometrics through Paypal

This is the rough draft of an article I’ve written for the next issue of TEN4 magazine. I’d like to know what people think about this subject and of the article. All comments appreciated as usual!
Thanks to Dan O’Connell for the interesting title.

Plyometrics through Paypal
Digitalization has profoundly altered the creative industries.
For the price of an [...]

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IdeasFactory Article: Viral Marketing for Individuals and Small Businesses

This is pretty much my first crack at serious writing. Comments and feedback appreciated as usual.
http://westmidlands.ideasfactory.com/new_media/features/feature55.htm 

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