For the last 3 remaining people in the universe who have not yet received a Joost invite: I have now got one. Nah-nah-na-na-nah.
Joost uses peer-to-peer technology, similarly to BitTorrent, to distribute copy-protected broadcast TV between users. It’s very simple to set up and you don’t need to tweak any settings to make it work perfectly. There are about 12 channels …read the rest of this article

The Victoria Line is not only the noisiest and grubbiest London Underground line; it is also my latest Twitter friend. In what may be the first known example of someone making Twitter, the ‘Seinfeld of the Internet’, do something useful, philosophy student and all-round clever chap Tom Morris has created travel update channels for each of the Underground lines feeding …read the rest of this article

FOWA day two, then. Lots of learning for me, as many of the presentations had more of a developer angle. It’s stuff I’m interested in, but tend not to understand a lot of the time thanks to an arty-farty background. In general terms, I do not know my API from my elbow. I met and heard from a lot of …read the rest of this article

I was lucky enough to be at FOWA today and to hear Kevin Rose speak about the future of digg.
I was unlucky enough for my Tablet PC to crash and lose my notes from the session [my own fault]. What follows is from memory. Forgive the consequent ‘notey-ness’.
Digg will support OpenID. The emergent portable, open ID system recently given support …read the rest of this article

Cross-posted from www.vecosys.com with a little fiddling to make it come from my mouth, not Mike’s.
My employer, New Media Knowledge (NMK) is taking applications from people who would like to speak or appear on a panel at its annual new media conference in June this year. The conference programme is being organised by the sage and experienced hands of Mike …read the rest of this article

Now that this Web 2.0 malarkey has become a full-time job, I’m getting out and about a bit more than was my wont. The next couple of weeks seems set to fry my brains completely. Do feel free to come and distract me with offers of beer if you’re coming along to any of these.
This week – The Future of …read the rest of this article

A mostly frustrating day for me struggling with CSS and PHP for the site for our summer conference day at work (to be revealed). I guess I learned a lot about both of those things in the struggle, though, so it will undoubtedly pay off eventually.
In the meantime, I want to sing the praises of Upcoming. It’s been around for …read the rest of this article

… are not normally to be mixed, of course.
But a night out with my friend Dave Cruickshank has proven too strong a lure. Having set much of the Web 2.0 world to rights, the theme of ‘crossing the chasm‘ versus ‘the tipping point‘ became the main topic.
For the uninitiated, these two books, both published in 2002, have a bearing on …read the rest of this article