You’re a young fledgling company, you’re just starting to get your head above water and keep afloat in the ever so fickle world of digital start-ups. The last thing you need is to fall foul of the law and have legal wranglings eating away at company time and profit.
Before that long flight to New York we thought it would be a great idea to get all the companies coming along on the
Digital Mission together in one place so that we could break
Over the next few weeks Chinwag will be getting to grips with search in
all its forms; from mobile and geo-location to SEO and paid search
marketing. We gathered for the first in the series, Search vs Recommendation,
on Tuesday 2nd September in Soho to discuss
the relative plus points of blanket search systems, recommendation and
review sites.
The rise of web 2.0 and the sheer volume of user generated content and outlets [Facebook, Youtube etc.] has been leapt upon by 'savvy' marketers looking to surf the wave of interest and opportunity. For many this has been successful, but, like surfing, it has meant skimming the surface of content missing out on the actual context or meaning of the content.
Right now, you can still book a ticket for Chinwag Live: Search vs Recommendation tomorrow night, Tuesday 2nd September, but we're closing bookings tomorrow morning.
Location and geolocation technologies might sound boring to the novice, but they're fuelling a raft of bold new web and mobile services with a social and locative flavour that are setting media and technology trendwatchers alight with excitement.
The preparations for Digital Mission to New York continue apace. There'll be lots of handy information when the Digital Mission companies get to New York, but to help with planning, the lovely Aoife has been working her magic with Google Maps. The map below shows the main venues (so far).
Since I wrote about my sweary run-in with Captchas - those squiggly things at the bottom of forms that can only easily be read after too much coffee/beer - a week or so ago, I've been paying more attention to this technology.
