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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 […]
Suveillance Cameras, IRC, Privacy and Data Use
Catching up on Bloglines, I came across this post by Alec Saunders about proposed surveillance cameras in Ottawa. It evoked a strange kind of cultural dissonance: virtually every town in Britain is already a panopticon. And most people don’t think twice about the roving, all seeing eyes (there are two within sight of Calico Jack’s […]
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 […]
Barcamp Leeds 2007
The weekend before last I travelled down from Dundee to Barcamp Leeds 2007 with my colleague Rick Moynihan. From the outset Old Broadcasting House, a tastefully refurbished pristine innovation centre, was humming with a sense of energy and anticipation. It didn’t disappoint - with the exception of those who couldn’t […]
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 […]
3GSM, Customer Value and Business Speak
Apologies to readers for the total absence of postings over the last weeks, but I’ve been busy on some important projects - more on these in subsequent posts. I was at 3GSM in Barcelona last month. I like 3GSM. It’s brash, inspiring, full of interesting people and in Barcelona. Yes, I can recognise the perspective […]
Social networking: not an open and closed case
I was born in Great Yarmouth, a town on the East Coast of Norfolk. The town is essentially built on a long sandbank formed at the confluence or rivers flowing from the Broads. The tidal Breydon Water lies behind the town. Small boats navigate its narrow channels to move between the Broadland Rivers. […]
Customer value, strategy and recent events at Vodafone
Some time back I did a strategy course as part of the Advanced Management Programme at the USGBS. After a few sessions of methodology and attendant whizzy diagrams, George Burt came in one morning and asked how many people had thought about customer value in the shower. Now, I have no intention of sharing my […]