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Combining, iClone, Moviestorm and other tools seamlessly and editing it together wonderfully while keeping the lighting, style, colour and theme all coherent, Phil "overman" Rice has produced something that, in my view, is at least as good as many things my children can watch on television.   more »

I'm a major fan of radical transparency and all businesses fail to meet their customers' expectations once or twice. I'm ...   more »

Yes, my very first experience with the Google G1 Android phone. if I was a highly skilled hardware reviewer, I would no doubt write a really good review   more »

When you have a room full of some of the most influential VCs in the world on then it would be almost foolish not to ask them what it was that they wanted to invest in him in the coming years. Given the state of the world’s financial markets immediately post-credit crunch, and given the recent doom and gloom scenario spread by Sequoia capital, and there was a real feeling of anticipation before the session: everybody genuinely wanted to know where money would flow over the next year or two.   more »

The one burning urge of creatives – above and beyond the urge for remuneration – is self determination. The other huge driver is quality. Creatives have no tolerance for poor quality, and musicians are doubly less tolerant of bad quality audio. So, those two creative drivers are colliding with the world of venture capital, copyright law and major distributors. And the resulting sparks, fire, friction and general mayhem is creating some genuinely exciting new music and some genuinely exciting new business models that are beginning to ensure that the artist does not starve to death before recording that vital third album.   more »

The robots are coming, and they are going to be smarter, better, stronger, faster and harder than we are. Not only that, the network is going to know them, and they are going to partly or completely live in the network. The march of innovation is barely going to miss a step because of the Credit Crunch. I’m going to make sure I spread the word on the web that I love the idea of robots and distributed computing sentience. Because real soon now, it is going to want to know who its friends are. You might want stop and think about that. In a world where we have ubiquitous airborne broadband, high powered chips, massive data access, rapid advances in robotics, fantastic advances in embedded OS (Zebor), and new sensors and displays (see Penny AB) then we are on the very near edge of a massive, world changing revolution. It is inevitable, it does not have a keyboard and is not flat.   more »

Photos of Red Herring ETRE 2008 can be found here on Flickr - so please feel free to tag them ...   more »

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Friends have been telling me for years that I need to hear J-P speak, so I was keen to get to this segment. What I was surprised by is that he is such a simple operational salesman. Straight forward box and licence shifting is a major part of his life. Probably the right way to get to the top in his job. His view is that impact on software is patchy and not predictable at the customer company level, and that the impact is being felt worldwide at about the same level across territories. With IT investment being 50% of most CEO’s decisions, this is a tough time, so the winner – if it is be Microsoft – will emerge from winning market share in a down cycle. CIOs are being told to cut budgets by 30%.   more »

Alex Vieux, Marcus Wallenberg, Giles McNamee and Norio Wada, among others, talk about the state of the world today. Alex used the Darwinian evolution statement. Has he been reading this blog, I wonder? This Credit Crunch is a global financial event and is still echoing around the global community. The idea of globalisation, so new at ETRE 1, is now the keys both to understanding the scale and consequences, and to taking advantage of the changes. Long timescales give long perspectives. With a quick canter around the BRIC countries, it was straight into the first major segment.   more »

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Dinner. The Vasa Warship. Events like ETRE serve a vital a purpose in joining together all of the elements of the business community and engendering trust. At a time like this, when the markets based on trust have collapsed all around the world, it is only face-to-face communication and meeting people which is going to restore that vital element upon which all businesses based: trust.   more »

Some small companies got toasted. I came away from the innovation session having realised that there were some amazingly clever venture capital companies with serious long-term investment profiles who were not only ready, but willing, fully capitalised, and in many ways determined, to buck the negative trend that seems to be emanating from places like Sequoia capital, and their ilk.   more »

Globalisation. Well, it seems like an old theme, but the events in the financial sector this week have made us all much more aware that we are in a small interconnected world. Given that, it seems amazingly appropriate that ETRE should have started talking about globalization 18 meetings ago. Here at the 19th ETRE, the conversations are all about how we - the entrepreneurs - deliver balance in that world. That balance is all about the cost of globalisation for citizens, for governments and for investors. Tim Draper, Rob Glaser, Travis Katz and others put some points to us and sometimes sang, and sometimes made us laugh.   more »

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As we have said all models are wrong, but some are useful. By using the biological models above we can rapidly prioritise features and functions of your product and the associated websites and services so that we can maximise the initial rate of uptake and adoption of your product amongst target users whilst also maximising the long-term rate of increase of your products use.   more »

I was interviewed by Megawhat TV recently at the Cambridge Innovation event. See it here, or on YouTube   more »

I'm a nice, tolerant guy. Most of the time. But today, for the 3rd time this year, Tucows and NetIdentity have let me down...   more »

If you have ever felt like that, then this is a book for you. Singing along to Nickelback's "If Everyone Cared" is just not enough for you. Really, you need to get a few thousand people to change the world with you. And Tom's book can help you. CauseWired - using the internet for massive social change   more »

This is a small video made in Moviestorm by one of our fans. It reminds me why I got into ...   more »

Part 5 - Your users can get immune to your product: they can be bored of it, fail to find challenge, or not receive direct personal benefit. Whatever the cause, they will, eventually, stop using the product unless you know they are changing and then do something. Problem is: which things do we need to to do?   more »

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