You’ll have gathered by now that I am a bit of a pedantic old bag but I have nothing against the word ‘digital’ per se. It is a perfectly lovely antonym to ‘analogue’. It is, according to a dictionary , a ‘description of data which is stored or transmitted as a sequence of discrete symbols from a finite...
Spotify’s founder Daniel Ek spoke on Friday (15 May) at the Great Escape festival in Brighton. He told the conference how Spotify had come to be and shared his vision for the future. Spotify is the current star in a succession of well documented and debated on-line music offerings purporting to offer...
Twitter has the badge of distinction of the first mass protest from members at a change it has implemented - thousands of people objecting to a change it has made in replies. At the same time it has been subjected to an amusingly wrathful blog post from rapper Kanye West, who is incensed that the service...
Some interesting innovations going on at Mixx , the social networking/news ranking website that's like Digg , but probably a little better. Mixx is offering advertisers the chance to get direct feedback for their creatives from its heavyweight users with a new service called Mixx Sifter. Advertisers...
‘The Year of Mobile’. Lets have a show of hands to see who has heard this phrase a few times in the past 5 years… …That’s a lot of hands. Why, then I ask, do people such as myself continue to persevere and have faith in the mobile industry? We dedicate hour upon hour reading, researching, writing; yet...
Two days after criticising Facebook users for their pathetic protest attempts , the masses, rather emphatically, proved me wrong, creating a big enough stir to get CEO Mark Zuckerberg to stammer and stumble his way out of another privacy issue. Egg on the face actually tastes pretty good, I should be...
It's difficult to extol the power of protest without saintly praise of the godfather of grumble, Bob Dylan. I remain a big fan of the man, despite his recent, bewildering shills, and the fact that 'Blown' in the Wind' is pretty tepid by today's standards, a song probably somehow more...
Ex-Washington post digital chief, Caroline Little, has been talking in Amsterdam having a stab at answering the question about how newspapers can make money online. It is a tough question with no easy answers, but her advice is quite right when she says the winners are going to be those people trying...
Visa has arrived on Second Life, it's bought an island, but has no ideas. Has the wheel come off the bandwagon? Have you been to Second Life? If not you better hurry, the credit card brand is launching itself into the virtual world following in the footsteps of the likes of Vodafone and Coty. Some...
