http://ceoblog.calicojack.co.uk Calico Jack CEO Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:54:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://ceoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2008/03/18/bbc-innovation-labs-2008-scotland/ 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 ... http://ceoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/12/12/suveillance-cameras-irc-privacy-and-data-use/ 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 - ... http://ceoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/12/11/pubs-bbc-radio-4-ipm-and-the-future-of-facebook/ 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. ... http://ceoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/12/05/mobile-social-networking-at-hillington/ 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 ... http://ceoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/11/27/barcamp-leeds-2007/ 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. ... http://ceoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/11/20/bbc-inovation-labs-edinburgh-launch-cj-assimilates-dykian-vision-of-creativity/ 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 ... http://ceoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/11/20/a-week-of-inspiration-that-was-last-week/ It's been interesting to watch the reaction to Tomi Ahonen's Mobile the 7th Mass Media post. You either like Tomi's brash style and bold claims or you don't. I do. Even if he goes too far, the blog and the book are powerful antidotes to a pervading cloud of ... http://ceoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/03/09/the-7th-mass-media-sims-and-individuality/ 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, ... http://ceoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/03/05/3gsm-customer-value-and-business-speak/ As a rule I shun surveys whether by phone, web or snail mail. Frankly, most are just too boring to contemplate without the incentive of a large carrot - deadpan deliveries of irrelevant questions, crappy ASP programs that crash before the end and letters from researchers who think people have ... http://ceoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2006/12/07/telco-20-survey-strategy-and-von-clausewitz-book/