Locative media first came onto my radar in 2005 when notice of a collective called Proboscis and their Urban Tapestries initiative hit my inbox at NMK.
Confidence across the digital sector plunged in September. Chinwag's Digital Pulse, a monthly confidence index for the digital industry, experienced the biggest single month fall (since its inception) of 7.5%. The Digital Pulse has been falling gradually over the last few months, with a slight uplift during the Summer, but this is the first sign of the chills affecting the wider economy may hit Internet businesses hard.
If the list of companies attending our event tomorrow is anything to go by, the innovations and opportunities around search and location-based services are moving up the agenda.
From telecoms, portals, publishers, application developers and digital marketing agencies, to PR companies, ecommerce outfits, VCs and social networks - it's shaping up to be a classic Chinwag event that brings the different shades of digital together to collectively get to grips with the latest trends.
Widgets are nifty little things aren’t they?
They give you quick access to the web info that’s most important to you. They let you leverage and personalise your content so that you can cut out all that surplus web guff you don’t need.
What's the situation when someone develops a game or product based on third party software (with permission) i.e a "vanilla" product or engine that is made available for that purpose - then someone else comes along and uses it?
In true lawyer style I have to say it depends on what the licence terms of the "vanilla" software are.
Disposable, atomised media is all the rage and I’m as guilty as the next person of wallowing in it.
Web 2.0 and all its trimmings is no exception to this trend, in fact
it glories in all things transient.* But what does it add up to? This
question is an itch worth scratching, so sometimes we revisit
particular events after their initial outing.
Thought that might get your attention.
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