Category: media
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Buzzfeed and the Full Stack Startup
In the latest a16z podcast Chris Dixon (who now sits on the board of BuzzFeed following Andreessen Horowitz’s recent $50m investment) interviews Buzzfeed's founder, Jonah Peretti. One of the things that interests me most about Buzzfeed is that (in common with a new breed of media upstarts including Quartz, Circa, Medium, Vice) they are building a media…
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Post of the Month – August 2014 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Balance is a Dynamic Activity by Antony Mayfield People and Space/The Culture Matrix from John Willshire Designing Flow Engines from John Willshire How To be Polite by Paul Ford Is BuzzFeed a Tech Company? from Ben Thompson And you can vote below:
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links, curated by Fraggl: I used to love Viz. This was a good piece on it's unlikely rise, fall, and rise again, from British institution to near bankrupty to resurrection online Estimote, who introduced beacons in 2013, have now launched sticker-sized 'nearable' beacon hardware. Could be a game changer Nice story - how the internet saved handmade goods Some interesting points here from Huge Inc on…
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Performance Firestarters 6: The Profit-Driven Marketer
For the sixth in our series of Google Firestarters events focusing specifically on issues around performance marketing we've picked a theme that must be close to the heart of just about any marketer – how to align marketing activity more directly with the bottom line. Taking marketing as a profit (rather than a cost) centre…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this past week, curated by Fraggl: 6 takeouts from the latest Ofcom's latest communications market report. The graph tracking the 'most-missed' media activity (above) is particularly stark A lengthy but insightful post from analyst Ben Evans on mobile app unbundling, and the future of service discovery, delivery and aggregation Well shared but really worth the…
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Google Firestarters 12 – Designing for the Future – The Event
Wednesday night saw the great and the good of UK planning come together for our twelfth (twelfth!) Google Firestarters event, themed around ‘Designing for the Future’, and we had three amazing speakers who gave three excellent provocations. Anab Jain, TED fellow, founder of Superflux, lecturer at the Royal College of Art (and whose work has…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: A fascinating look inside the creative process (above) of screenwriter Dustin Lance Black ("Milk" and "J. Edgar") Some good data here illustrating 5 key things about how younger generations consume media I like the idea behind this book - three business school professors travel the back roads of America in search of innovation The peculiar physics…
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Post Of The Month – June 2014 – The Winner
Happy to announce that the winner of this month's vote is James Caig with his post on The Lives of Others. Something of a split vote this month so a close run thing but well done James – you join the hall of fame. Thanks everyone for taking part and don't forget to bookmark nominations…
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Post Of The Month – June 2014 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: The Lives of Others by James Caig Interesting versus Right – Revisited by Richard Huntingdon Client Feedback on the Creation of the Earth by Mike Lacher People, Not Data from Tim Solomon A Return to Form in Media by John Batelle And you can vote below:
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Post Of The Month – June 2014 – Nominations
Time to open up nominations for great posts that you have read, and that were posted in June, in our vote for Post Of the Month. I have a short starting list below as usual, but please do add to these by nominating direct or in the comments below. So my starting list is: The…