There are really clever people, stupid people and Steve Rubel, a half person half meerkat. Like all good meerkats Steve’s the best lookout in the savannah (that’s open grassland to all you stupids). You’d be wise to listen to Steve and his barely comprehensible meerkat peeps and squeaks, because he’s spotted a great big bubble of a big cat about to devour, digest and excrete a whole load of start-ups.
‘Nearly every online start-up you can think of is basing their business model on advertising. It’s as if your digital budgets Read the rest of this entry »
8 months ago Cynthia Holmes uploaded a lo-fi video to You Tube. The video featured two otters holding hands (it’s paws I think Cynthia unless Otters have developed opposable thumbs).
In that time it’s racked up a staggering 8.5 million views. It’s 1 minute 40 seconds long and the second most recent comment is ‘just imagine what they do when the kids leave the zoo?’. Wonder at their opposable thumbs one supposes. Read the rest of this entry »
Er yeah it does, some London scientificos working for Canadians say so:
‘The two researchers at the University of London that conducted the study for the Canadian Government estimated that the effect of one additional P2P download per month is actually an increase in music purchasing by 0.44 CDs per year.’ (via Mashable)
0.44 of a CD = Less than half a Radiohead album, all of the Westlife catalogue and a night in a Dublin Hotel, 3 of Girl’s Aloud (any 3) a Hummer limo and a lingerie photo shoot or Lily Allen and a packet of Marlboro Lights.
I recently got talking to one of the founders of a popular music site, who shall remain nameless. They have an all you can eat monthly subscription business model, part of which is a royalty divided amongst the music publishers they have deals with according to the volume of sales. It works, it’s successful and though occasionally unlicensed music will creep into the inventory, Read the rest of this entry »
Last week was all about Google’s Open Social announcement, grouping together MySpace, LinkedIn and other social networking sites to create a common developer environment and put the virtual squeeze on Facesoft to join the party and create a true widegetocracy.
Ah, heaven, develop a killer widget, no need to develop on various disparate platforms, just a one size fits all wrapper enabling people to share the goodness of the widget with everyone, who… well… anyone who is on a social network and with the launch of a silver surfers network by Saga (them of the Club 55-80 holidays) that includes your Bad Uncle Bobby and his new wife Patty with the implants.
Now all we need is some real innovation in the widget sphere, like a widgetzine, filtered content from around the web.
For your Friday reading pleasure, Tamil filtered through the warped minds of data inputers.
More recently the same video has been accredited to Wal-Mart, though the ‘the prices are low and so are our wages’ subtitle is enlightening. The original video was posted on You Tube a year ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Call yourself a ‘Creative Technologist’? WTF! Where are you going with this whole designer toy/Star Wars vinyl mashup thread? Huh? Stop talking to yourself.
Designer toys are often grouped with a love of street art, urban apparel, limited edition trainers and one year, 1984 when I was given my first Han Solo figurine purchased from a toy store in Tossa De Mar.
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There are really clever people, stupid people and Steve Rubel, a half person half meerkat. Like all good meerkats Steve’s the best lookout in the savannah (that’s open grassland to all you stupids). You’d be wise to listen to Steve and his barely comprehensible meerkat peeps and squeaks, because he’s spotted a great big bubble of a big cat about to devour, digest and excrete a whole load of start-ups.
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