Year: 2006

  • These men could make it all better for the music business

    At yesterday’s Beyond The Soundbytes music biz conference I ran into Paul Sanders, a major blast from the past (like it says on his web site: “since 1994”) and the…

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  • A small masterpiece from La La Land

    My favourite comment for ages. Not spam, just completely mad…

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  • From acceptance to accommodation

    So I went down to Carlton House Terrace for a MusicTank conference called Beyond the Soundbytes. Fascinating. There’s a sort of melancholy thrill to be had from watching an industry…

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  • More information about that eBay widget

    Like I said the other day we’re looking for someone to develop a clean, usable web widget for eBay. We’ve had a number of promising responses to our request but…

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  • Reaching for my gun

    I’m writing some think pieces for a new web site from the DCMS’s Culture Online. I started with one about the future of radio and the second one is about…

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  • The evolution of the API

    I don’t pretend to understand how it works but I do like the look of Mashery. If APIs are going to transform business, if they’re going to become a feature…

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  • Comedy characters

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  • Wow

    Supernaturally vivid photo-real illustrations from Japan. Link courtesy Things (I think).

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  • Widgets are hot

    Ivan’s in California engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the competition at Widgets Live. Here in London Jay’s been judging the BBC Backstage widget competition. Entries had to make use of…

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  • Lots of good politics this week

    Climate change – some kind of watershed. Iraq – another watershed?. Immigration – the numbers confirm Britain is a net consumer of migrants and has become a kind of ‘interchange’…

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