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March 2009 Blog Posts (71)

Aberdeen's Open Knowledge Network

Last week I spent some time in Aberdeen with Scottish Enterprise's man in the north (or one of them) Steve Harrison, on a 4iP equivalent of speed-dating. I met a plethora of design, technology, learning and innovation companies who will hopefully become the focus of some commissions in the future. Having had a great, if brief time, with some of the folk at Gray's Art School, I picked up on an irregular meetup that seems to offer a first class mix of music, innovation and… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on March 30, 2009 at 7:00 — 1 Comment

Contracts, contracts, contracts... normal service resumed shortly

If you follow the main 4iP blog you'll have seen that the team is entering a few weeks of contracting: just getting a bunch of approved ideas through the final hurdle as quickly as we can.

For the past two months I've been in the frustrating position of meeting literally hundreds of companies and individuals from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Belfast, Newcastle and… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on March 29, 2009 at 18:48 — 6 Comments

Creativity, Media and Journalism

I attended the Awakening Creative Entrepreneurship workshop on Creativity, Media and Journalism in Derry, Northern Ireland today. There was an interesting discussion led by Roy Greenslade, David McKittick and Deric Henderson. It was an open-ended discussion, with some people agreeing with Roy on the imminent death of newspapers and everything going onto the internet in about 10 years time . My contribution amounted to two things: how do you ensure the production of news on the net is… Continue

Added by Una Murphy on March 27, 2009 at 20:29 — 1 Comment

WLTM: Host companies to benefit from research grant in Creative Industries

Are you looking for an inexpensive way to get some critical research for your organisation?

The Institute for Capitalising on Creativity (ICC) at University of St Andrews is looking for host companies or organisations to benefit from its recent award of a £1.5 million grant to conduct research in the Creative Industries in Scotland.

The ICC, a consortium of four Scottish… Continue

Added by Barbara Townley on March 27, 2009 at 16:38 — No Comments

BarCampBelfast - 252 attendees and growing

4iP is always happy to support crowd-sourced, hand-picked, organic and idea-crammed meetings of minds, but BarCampBelfast is already going beyond the call of duty. And it's not even started yet!

BarCamp is now just under a month away, and thanks to the crazy number of people registering and eager to talk, Andy McMillan (Chief Unorganiser of the Unconference) has had… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on March 27, 2009 at 11:30 — 2 Comments

Social Media Television

A recent article from ReadWriteWeb states that over one-fourth of users ages 18-24 are interested in having more social media features integrated into their TV. Mainly in the form of multi-player gaming and chat. Watching TV is not enough and with programs such as iPlayer and 4OD, the… Continue

Added by Darcie Tanner on March 26, 2009 at 17:02 — 1 Comment

Meebo Ads: Innovative or obvious

Some of you might have notices that Meebo has gone from Window's Blue to sleek black in colour (mine hasn't however, so I'm guessing they're rolling it out amongst users like Facebook does when it changes up it's platform).

This step has been taken to allow advertising on the mass of empty space without it being too intrusive on Meebo users. Users who seem to be either fine with it or feel like it was a… Continue

Added by Darcie Tanner on March 26, 2009 at 11:00 — No Comments

Does what you own own you?

Limited Edition Print

Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica, debuted his second feature film, Objectified, last week at the SXSW Film festival.

Objectified is a documentary in interview form with 30+ product designers. Each telling how they came up with their idea and little… Continue

Added by Darcie Tanner on March 25, 2009 at 13:00 — 6 Comments

Measuring the contribution of collaboration technologies

'Count what is countable, measure what is measurable. What is not measurable, make measurable' (attributed to Gallileo)

I've recently been struggling with ways to measure the contribution of social media and other collaboration technologies for existing businesses. With the vast variety of initiatives, technologies and tools, what framework can we use to measure the value of these tools?

As a base - I've taken the… Continue

Added by Ray Macsweeney on March 25, 2009 at 10:46 — 3 Comments

More twitter uses.

I came across this post from a teacher who moved things forward with the Education Minister in England, aided and abetted by the good old Teasmaid:

Added by Michael Coulter on March 24, 2009 at 13:00 — 9 Comments

Call to 'shut down' Street View....

A formal complaint about Google's Street View has been sent to the Information Commissioner (ICO).

Drawn up by privacy campaigners, it cites more than 200 reports from members of the public identifiable via the service.

Privacy International wants the ICO to look again at how Street View works.

"The ICO has repeatedly made clear that it believes that in Street View the necessary safeguards are in place to protect people's privacy," said… Continue

Added by Chris Eva on March 24, 2009 at 12:30 — 10 Comments

Connecting to Scotland

North East based so hanging out on Digital Dockyard http://www.digitaldockyard.com/profile/DavidReid but also accessible via Twitter http://twitter.com/northeastkiwi or you can check out my brief profile on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/dwreid

Added by David Reid on March 24, 2009 at 12:10 — No Comments

FreeAgent Central secures funds for expansion

FreeAgent Central has secured its first round of funding, positioning the company for rapid expansion as it embarks on an aggressive growth strategy.

The independent software company, pioneering online accounting specifically for small businesses and freelancers, has received an undisclosed amount of investment from private and angel investors including serial entrepreneur Christoph Janz, founder of Pageflakes and an early investor in Zendesk, another highly successful SaaS… Continue

Added by ChrisWelton on March 24, 2009 at 11:19 — No Comments

4iP's £100k for iPhone 3.0 apps

We want to see what damage you can do with the added functionality for games on the iPhone 3.0 SDK. Dan's got some more details on the main 4iP blog. You've only got a few weeks to get your ideas in for this. Best of luck!

Added by Ewan McIntosh on March 23, 2009 at 12:44 — 8 Comments

ARGs where it's at.

As it says in this BBC News post:

A small British company has been named Best in Show at the South by Southwest Web Awards, in Austin, Texas.

Six to Start won the top prize for We Tell Stories, an interactive approach to retelling literary classics and redefining modern online story-telling.

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The website held off competition from the likes of Hulu - the popular on-demand online TV site - Flickr and geo-location company BrightKite.

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Founded by Mr Hon and… Continue

Added by Matt Johnston on March 23, 2009 at 8:00 — 1 Comment

ambITion: implementing integrated IT and digital developments

For my blog Arts Funding Detective I want to write about this organisation: AmbITion. It's right up my street and hopefully your street as well, as it's about 'helping organisations achieve their 21st century sustainability ambitions through implementing integrated IT and digital developments'.

Why the need for AmbITion?

Other sectors have recognised and responded to some specific… Continue

Added by Ivan Pope on March 22, 2009 at 23:34 — No Comments

European Newspaper lobby: "Google News are thieves". Jings

Closing speeches are an opportunity to look forward to what we do next, and at the EU Commission's conference on media literacy and copyright I, for one, was relieved that our Chairman and film legend Lord Puttnam reiterated, albeit far more eloquently, what…

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Added by Ewan McIntosh on March 21, 2009 at 10:16 — 3 Comments

Streets of San Francisco

And so Cross Creative's adventures in Silicon Valley draw to a close...

What have we learned?

Immeasurable lessons in digital innovation, positive approach, anything is possible, not to be afraid of failure, we've met some incredible people and for a trip that was learning focused I sensed more than a few connections that will I'm sure become working relationships.

On a personal level I learned not to promise to blog about a trip unless you bring a laptop!… Continue

Added by Carole Dunlop on March 21, 2009 at 0:38 — 1 Comment

Audioboo gets more hooks

Just a quick one to update nobody in particular on the progress we've made on Audioboo since launch last Friday.

* Integration with both Facebook and Twitter so that you can autopost to one or both

* Subscribe to your or a users feed in iTunes

* WordPress plugin to display your latest boos

* Ability to delete, retag or make you boos private

And coming this evening - tag linking, so you can do Twitter style # groupings.

In terms… Continue

Added by Mark Rock on March 20, 2009 at 14:30 — 1 Comment

New music for a new era - mashups and Twitter concerts show organisation: without the organisation!

This is the most amazing mash up: a new piece of music called ThruYou created from existing YouTube videos - amateurs and professionals play together! Arts funders, IP gurus and arts organisations take note - this is what can be organised without the organisation!

Last night my favourite classical musician of the year (spotted at EdTwestival) Peter Gregson of Coffeeloop (an Edinburgh music and technology start-up)… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on March 20, 2009 at 12:30 — 2 Comments

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