Archive for January, 2008

Politics and satire – to engage a nation

Monday, January 14th, 2008I remember in the 80's a great deal of comedy being created out of political satire, Spitting Image perhaps its finest example. Today - political satire seems to be waning.However, in the US and because of the writers ...

Why Console Games will be bigger than Rock’n'Roll

Sunday, January 13th, 2008Commissioned by Youth Music and written by Andrew Missingham, this report has sought out young people?s views about music-games, and aims to provide an insight into how music-games may develop and how the music sector could make the most of ...

New Kids on the Blog – BBC Radio 4 explores the evolution of media

Sunday, January 13th, 2008http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/4tbwg/Matt Frei looks at how the digital revolution is changing the face of American media.American journalism is changing faster than ever before and the mass audiences of the nightly network news are in decline. With the internet explosion, Americans now ...

A new digital era: predicts Bill Gates

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Funny old world. In CDB we wroteGeneration-C stands for the Community Generation. The defining and distinguishing characteristic for Gen-C is the continuous connection to and responding to digital communities. This is very different from any other communities. ...

ITV shares downgraded

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Lehman brothers has downgraded its stance on ITV, saying traditional media companies are likely to face disruption from coming technology changes.Changing its outlook on the media sector to ?neutral? from ?positive?, Lehman downgraded ITV to ?underweight? from ?equal-weight?.Lehman ...

Kids and the future of media

Monday, January 7th, 2008In his post What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media We get simple but useful insight into children, their media consumption and what they mean for us. OUr VC writesI was reading a ...

Secret Crush or Social Worm?

Monday, January 7th, 2008I have been doing some thinking around engagement on social platforms and how one then monetises that community.Interestingly I heard someone speak recently that outlined the web 2.0 strategy of commercialising social networks.Basically, build your platform let people use it ...

Xtract in Deloitte top 500 and in competition for Finnish technology company of the year

Sunday, January 6th, 20085 years ago I would have never thought that such a company might exist that company is XtractWhat do they do?Xtract is capable of taking large and multiple raw data flows and turn those data flows into unique ...

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