Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Tweetstats is a nice service, just punch in your Twitter username and you get back a mess of stats on what you’ve been up to. I’m sure that we’ll get people pouring over high profile people and extract some Columbo-esque detective work. So let’s start with my monthlies. Can you tell when I travel to the US and hang out in the Web 2.0 crowd?
Memories of the crazy Facebook ‘valuation’ spring to mind on reading Silicon Alley Insider’s breakdown on how much they think Craigslist could be worth (answer, anywhere between $750 million and $5 billion). Do we here a ‘ding!’ Nope. Because while evaluation is all well and good, you;re only worth what someone will pay for you. The negotiating table is a cruel mistress, and just because you’ve got some number from a shareholding many months or years ago. Maybe we should stop calling them ‘valuations’ and use ‘aspirations’ instead?
Last night, as I was settling down to bed, news that the dates for the next Arrington/Calacanis Conference, TechCrunch{foo} (where {foo} is a variable number determined by the requirements of PR, it’s currently 50) came down the tubes. September 8-10. Oh that’s handy, I thought, because the Autumn CTIA is September 10-12, and BlogWorldExpo is September 19-21. Lots of little things are lining up for a trip. Dates placed in Filofax, didn’t think any more of it. Oh yes, those are the same dates as the Fall Demo conference. That’s a mighty big coincidence. But you would be a fool
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Mix08 this year. Having attended Mix in 2006, I had a rough idea – Microsoft showing the world what they thought of ‘stuff,’ and the signals before hand pointed out to the updates of Internet Explorer 8, and so I expected several updates to other internet products as well. What I wasn’t expecting was to catch Microsoft in the middle of a metaphorical handbrake turn to change direction. With a company the size of Microsoft, the momentum required to do this must have been huge. Given that CTO Ray Ozzie only took over
You know, it’s for charity! Dean Whitbread is running ‘Rise and Shine,’ a daily morning show with live streaming video, audio and podcast ‘listen again.’ In Dean’s words: This is a pilot for a new kind of radio programme. Rise and Shine is a live experimental breakfast show, in which songwriters face the daily challenge of writing a song based on news and current events. The pilot lasts one month, starting February 26th, 2008. The sponsorship for the pilot, running a month, is being auctioned for charity on Ebay – do stop by if you can.
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