Author: Katie
Le Web 3: Philippe Starck is bonkers. And Robert Scoble just asked him what he thinks of the Kindle…
Philippe Starck is currently giving a very funny talk about design and technology. His firm belief is that we are constantly designing new things when the things we are currently using work fine. He is appalled…
The best thing I've heard so far at Le Web 3 – Hans Rosling, founder of Médecins Sans Frontières
“There are hundreds of types of wine, but I only know two types: red and white. I’m not interested in wines. I don’t know wines – but I know more than two hundred types of countries. My neighbour, he knows hundreds of different types of wines, but he only knows two types of countries: western countries and third world countries. There are too many people who know wine and too few people who know countries.”
If there’s one thing you would ask of bloggers, what would you ask?
“Consider how all these blogging communites may enforce the ethnic homogeny of western europe and America. Break that…
Shiny Media goes to Le Web 3! First up, Digg's Kevin Rose and Sarah Lacy from Business Week do some gentle flirting
alt="leweb3-bus.jpg" src="https://www.techdigest.tv/leweb3-bus.jpg" width="200" height="160" /> So here we are, Chris, Ashley and I have taken some time out from the delights of company board meetings and discussions with technical support to head over to gay Paris for Le Web…
Fill out our Xmas survey and win a PSP! (Plus loads of other stuff)
Ho, ho, ho boys and girls. Santa has just rocked up and he has brought with him a very big sack of Boys Stuff and Codemasters goodies. And one of many prizes (we'll give you full details tomorrow) could be…
Media Tech live blog – exec admits Google moved too slowly on YouTube and MySpace
Another top question at the Media Tech summit (background here and here) was ‘which is the best investment you have missed.’ The panellists gave some great answers with Anil from Google essentially acknowledging that the company should have been much…
IBM's SL event: Now taking part in SL
So I've been invited to the IBM island, in the IQ region. We're about to embark on a "quick collaborative building project" which should be interesting since I've never actually done anything like that in SL. In fact, I don't…
IBM's Second Life event: IBM's orientation trail and business applications for SL
After a few IBM staff members were put off SL thanks to too many normal punters approaching them with offers of virtual intimacy, IBM now has its own personal orientation trail away from the prying eyes of the public. Which…
Media Tech Live blog – Is there any other option for start ups than being bought by Google?
The day’s highlight so far was undoubtedly a panel discussion featuring reps from Google (Anil Hansjee, head of European Corporate Development), Yahoo (Jonathan Wolf, Director of Corporate Development) and VCs from Acacia Capital (Ajay Chowdhury) and Index Ventures (Ben Holmes)….
Tech Digest @ Media Tech
I am sitting in the wonderful IMAX in London's Waterloo – the biggest 3D cinema in Europe. There's no lions leaping out of the screen at me today though. Rather the it is the big beasts of the media world…
IBM Second Life Day: Why is SL suddenly so popular?
Just why is SL so popular right now? With around 1.6million users it's not actually all that popular. I suspect a lot of it is down to some very good PR recently that has provided a few easy stories for…
