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Posted by David Tebbutt on 16th June 2008.
Last week’s Web 2.0 Strategies conference in London brought together people who were anxious to find out whether and how to implement ‘Web 2.0′ in their organisations. They came with a generally favourable disposition towards the subject but most of those I spoke to were finding it difficult to engender enthusiasm among their senior management. [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 9th September 2007.
Last week saw the second Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. One of the panellists, Toby Moores, is a visiting professor at the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort university in Leicester. He runs a company called Sleepy Dog which is (currently) best known for creating Sony’s Buzz quiz games. He describes his company [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 8th June 2007.
There’s never been a better time to be a startup or small business owner looking for advice. There’s a glorious web of potential business mentors out there on the internet, offering help, insight and encouragement.
What’s important is that many of these people are real entrepreneurs, or real VCs, or real lawyers, or real web [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 29th April 2007.
Last week, I spoke at a conference on the subject of ‘new technologies’. Not that I agreed with the title, mind you. It rather depends how one interprets ‘technologies’. To me, information, communication, culture and services are the important things. The technologies which support them are essential (broadband and computers) but not inherently interesting. The [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 15th December 2006.
Over at OpenBusiness, Charlie Leadbetter asks whether social media will be a victim of its own success.
His short hypothesis is that many view social media as being stuck between a rock and a hard place. It’s either on the verge of a bursting bubble, or it’s about to be ruined by the root of [...]
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