Author: Katie
We're joining in the Vodafone Live Guy treasure hunt!
Remember The Interceptor? Treasure Hunt? Challenge Anneka?* Well, next week we'll be joining in with a live Treasure Hunt that's going to be more thrilling than all three combined. (Who even knew that was possible, right? I know.) Hunt organiser,…
Tech Digest needs a new editor! It could be you!!!!!!!!!
Yes, it's true! Tech Digest is recruiting a new editor (steel yourselves, people, your beloved editor, Kat, is moving on to pastures new). We're looking for a tech-loving web-head who knows and loves Tech Digest, who understands all kinds of…
Le Web 3 2007. Television Reborn
According to the programme, the panel members are as follows: Benjamin Bejbaum, Daily Motion, Nir Ofir, BlogTV Robert Scoble – PodTech, Conrad Riggs – Mark Burnett Productions (LongelyGirl15), Jeff Pulver – Pulver Media. But thanks to this new fangled trend…
Le Web 3 Live. The funniest thing I've heard at Le Web 3 so far…
Pigeons are faster than ADSL. And so are snails.
Yes, it’s true, Yossi Vardi, easily the funniest and most engaging speaker of the conference “did a test” and compared the transfer speeds of carrier pigeons carrying a memory card from one town in Israel to another (aka Wi-Fly) and a standard ADSL connection transferring the data from computer to computer, and the Pigeon travelled the distance faster. At least, that’s what he said and I believe everything he says.
Le Web 3 Live. Jason Calacanis: Seth Goldin, Dave Sifry, Ev Williams – they're all to blame for spam on the web
Question: if you create an open system that allows people to upload whatever they want, how do you stop those systems from just becoming huge spam fests that ruin search results? Obviously Jason Calacanis is going to tell you that the answer is Maholo, his new people powered search engine.
Le Web 3 2007, Day Two. GooJet wins startup competition
So, after that long preamble from the judging panel, the winners were announced at lightning speed, leaving us desperately scrabbling around trying to work out how to spell half of the winners. So, without any more preamble from me, here are the winners:
Le Web 3 2007, Day Two. Start-up comp – what are the web companies of tomorrow?
So here we are, Day Two of Le Web 3, 2007. While I spent the day sat in the main conference hall listening to the speakers, my fellow Shiny, Ashley Norris, has been over in the Start-up Dock listening to new businesses pitch their ideas to a panel of judges.
Le Web 3: Andrew Keen and Emily Bell ask if social media is killing our society?
I’m currently privy to a very interesting and tightly argued discussion about whether the web is killing our society. It seems that Emily Bell (of The Guardian Unlimited) and controversial author Andrew Keen (most famous for ‘Cult of the Amateur’) have argued this many many times before and seem to have a very easy relationship where they feel comfortable insulting each other like some sort of bickering elderly couple.
I’ve put in some of their key points below, but for a short precis of how the argument went: Andrew makes a point about how the internet is rubbish (in one way or another), Emily calmly points out why he is wrong…
Le Web 3: According to June Cohen of TED Media, user-generated content is not new: it’s old media that’s the upstart
June Cohen, the CEO of TED Media talks about the way that our media is changing – and that it’s not necessarily a bad thing. I’ve done my best to capture what she said in her own words.
There are 110 million blogs online. Lots of us say things like that, but rarely stop to think just how incredible that number is. It’s seen as something that is beginning to dilute and replace old media. But Old Media is actually astonishingly new. If you took the extent of human history and condensed it into a single day, all of the media we use (books, tv, newspapers) would have been invented in the last 2 seconds before midnight.
Communities, however, have always existed…
Le Web 3: Possibly the most tense panel discussion I've ever witnessed!
What happens when you get Mattias Leufkens, moderator of the World Economic Forum, Rafi Haladjian of Nabaztag, Iris Ben David, of Style Shake (a site that allows you to create your own clothes using an interactive design service online), and Brent Hoberman from Last Minute and mydeco sitting on a sofa together?
A vague sense of unease, that’s what. They’ve just spent the past 30 minutes talking about the impact of design on the web, and thanks…
