'BBC' Category
BBC Innovation Labs 2008 - Scotland
I spent last week inhabiting a black hole in the UK mobile networks while attending the BBC Scottish Innovations Lab. The Forrest Hills Hotel would seen an excellent site for a Picocell - although, judging by the performance of the flaky T-Mobile Wifi , there may be a back-haul problem. You can […]
Pubs, BBC Radio 4 iPM and the Future of Facebook
I’ve always thought that social networking sites will turn out to be like pubs: rising in popularity, going out of fashion and then being reinvented. On this basis, planning future development on the basis of Facebook’s inevitable rise does not seem prudent - strategically, this is an important issue - even before the Beacon fiasco […]
Mobile Social Networking at Hillington
The Wireless Innovation Centre at Hillington, a key hub drawing together the disparate wireless scene in Scotland, hosted a mobile social networking event the Friday before last. The centre’s technology manager Alisdair Gunn kicked the day off by installing Andy Campbell (”Chief Networker” and CEO of Specialmove) as compere. Andy, well known in the […]
BBC Inovation Labs Edinburgh Launch - CJ assimilates Dykian vision of creativity
Last Thursday (November 15th) I went along to the BBC Innovation Labs Launch Day in Edinburgh. I was resigned to a day of polite PowerPoint consumption punctuated by tea, coffee, biscuits, lunch and occasional questions. But that’s not what Matthew Cashmore, Ian Forrester and Frank Boyd had in mind. Yes, there was PowePoint, but […]
A Week of Inspiration (that was last week)
To be entirely honest, not being an enthusiastic meeting hound, I often attend events out of duty rather than desire, coming away from events bored and frustrated: stupified rather than inspired. But last week I had the privilege to attend two genuinely inspirational events: the BBC’s Innovation Labs launch day in […]