Category: Interviews
Wednesday interview: Bruce Renny of ROK on free mobile TV
I've seen the future, and it's monkeys reading the news. Honest. I saw it on FreeBeTV, a new mobile TV service from ROK which launched last week. Monkey News Network (MNN for short) is one of the five launch…
Monday interview: JumpTap's Eric McCabe on why mobile search is more about music than sex
For many people, mobile search is what they do when they're about to leave the house, and suddenly realise they've left their Nokia down the back of the sofa. Yet in the mobile industry, it means something different. It's…
Wednesday interview: Michael Sikorsky of Cambrian House on the wisdom of crowdsourcing
"Join our happy hivemind," invites the homepage of Cambrian House. "We’re growing a collective to help decide the fate of sticky ideas. Resistance is – oh, you know." This is open-source software, Jim, but not as we know it….
One Minute Interview: Christmas Predictions from BoysStuff.co.uk
We spent the evening with BoysStuff.co.uk, not only speaking to Dr Mark Tilden, but also getting their Christmas predictions for the year ahead. There's also some random footage of the next generation Robosapien shaking this thang….
Friday interview: HP Labs' Huw Robson on how Memory Spots will revolutionise your digital media habits
Tech Digest first wrote about HP’s Memory Spot technology in July, when it was announced. It’s basically a tiny piece of silicon that holds megabytes of data, and can be wirelessly interacted with using a special read-write device. It’s…
One Minute Video Review: Robosapien and beyond
OK, admittedly this one is *slightly* longer than one minute, but it's the amazing Dr Mark Tilden, creator of Robosapien and the like. Catch him explaining the evolution, and discussing missing the toilet bowl when going for a wee….
Monday interview: Amino's Mike Leigh on taking Internet TV back to the living room
In some ways, YouTube is just a big melting pot of stuff you've already seen on normal TV. I spent 20 minutes in tears of laughter at a succession of 'animal falls off furniture' clips last week (yes, I…
Top 10 Tech Digest interviews from August
It's early days for our Tech Digest interviews, but they've already covered a range of subjects, from blogging and smart clothing through to super-fast mobile downloads, motion capture and, er, how Cud fans are getting into social bookmarking. See below…
Wednesday interview: Dave Lu tells all about Fanpop
Heaven knows, the Web is full of marvellous ways to kill an hour or two when you should be working, but Fanpop may be one of the most addictive. It launched in early August, and describes itself as a…
Friday interview: Mena Trott of Six Apart on the new frontiers of blogging
Blogging's taking over the world, right? Read a lot of media coverage, and you might think that every man, woman and stick insect in the Western world has a blog on the go, if not several. But that's not true….
