Casual Video Tools - the natural partners to Social Media, and the antidote to frustration and irrelevance. Casual video is simple and deep. Casual video is browser based, but not slow to respond. Casual video is fun, but not trite or overly stylised to the point of silliness. Casual video is drag and drop, but it helps educate and illuminate. Casual video empowers self-realisation, and never seeks to "reprogramme the user". Now, having staked a claim on the title of Casual Video Tools (c) me, 2009, I need to go do something else for a while.   more »

Wanted: intros to best exec recruitment people in UK, EU, US, Mid East. Must have techmedia focus, must deal at ...   more »

Digital Britain is a report to the UK Government from a Steering Committee of the usual suspects and television presenters. ...Full of promise, but no means to deliver? No, sadly they get it "wronger" than that, as you will see...Would it not be easier to just do the sums, as TIGA did some years back, and put some cash behind one of our most vibrant and export generative industries, just once? My vote: FAIL.   more »

The coffee at IoD was pretty vile, but the conversations and demos were pretty good, so that kind of reset the karma of the event. (see how reasonable I am being? normally bad coffee turns me into a screaming monster, but the promise of a presentation from Caffe Nero founder in the afternoon helped calm me down.) Quick run down - if you wanted the detail, you would have been there. General mood = optimism for mediatech and for new ventures in general. Specific advice = weatherproof your business and cash is king. In slightly more detail:   more »

I'm not known as a follower of fashion, joiner of clubs, or even someone who knows a good idea when they see it. Not normally. The Entrepreneur Manifesto from the wonderful, effervescent, Julie Meyer at Ariadne Capital is, however, a good idea and I can see it. I've endorsed it, even if previously agreeing with clause 5 has got me into significant disputes with some investors (and even though I agree with clause 5, I have happily taken investment in my current company from NESTA with whom I have no disputes and even find things to agree with :-) ) The only reason I can think of that you would not want to do just that is if you are already based in Silicon Valley (and if you are - please invite me as I love it there) and have access to staggering pools of talent and investment and live in an environment that really understands and respects entrepreneurial zeal. And now, back to a cold, damp, grey day in England...   more »

Today I am mostly in receive mode. Things did change as expected last year. The summary from ETRE, SIME, NMBX and Essential Mediatech remains true and things are playing out as expected through the down turn. Mediatech and entertainment is holding up, tech innovation continues and pretty well all the rest of the world is in melt-down / panic mode (most of which is pure emotion, some of which is long overdue correction, a little bit of which is actually quite serious).   more »

Moviestorm follows on from its trips to San Francisco, Stockholm, London and Atlanta in 2008 with a trip to Texas ...   more »

I've been looking into why I enjoy working with smaller companies more and more recently. It is not that I ...   more »