I finally attended my first ever Gamecity in 2010, the festival’s fifth year. So it took four years to get there, but it was everything I expected it to be. However, it seems that it wasn’t everything the organisers expected it to be. In the closing speech which is traditionally an industry keynote, the festival [...]
Twitseek.com has been blessed with a glut of traffic in the last few months. After being up for over a year, something has kicked in to drive traffic to the site. Increased Page Views A combination of Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and Google Adsense stats have been used to try to understand the recent [...]
A great video of John Nese, the “Willy Wonka of carbonation”, from Galcos Soda Pop Stop by chow.com. John Nese is talking about the massive variety of sodas they have for sale. His passion for the product is fantastic and a comparison to Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibraryTV is not wrong. SodaLibraryTV anyone? This great video [...]
Kiva is an amazing organisation which allows me to loan money to entrepreneurs on the other side of the world. And I love it. And I want to tell people about it. Using services like Foursquare and Gowalla I cannot do anything without my social network hearing about it through updates to Facebook, Twitter and [...]
Spotify has really come into its own recently and that’s because of its accessibility from elsewhere. iPhone The ability to run Spotify as a background task on the iPhone has finally made it usable on the device. Until then, it restricted doing any other task until music had finished playing. Now with background operation and [...]
At Mediacamp Nottingham 2, Glenn Le Santo was discussing the last ten and next ten years of media. Part of that discussion was inevitably about monetisation and how its difficult to do. When it is attempted there is a backlash and criticism as the Times has recently experienced with its paywall debate. But without monetisation [...]
