Category: Web 2.0 (News)

Nokia’s Chinese Whispers

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Ewan Spence

Look past the Chinese language if you have to, but this interview with Stephen Elop on Sina.com.cn has a nice bundle of bullet points, including: Nokia are bringing expertise in navigation, mapping and entertainment to Windows Phone. They will be “doing things” to help Symbian users move to Windows Phone. Meego is going to be a key element to the Chinese strategy. …and it’s hard for Elop to understand why Google created uncertainty in the Android ecosystem (which Nokia could have joined). Grab a coffee and watch the full video on Sina.

Mashing up Monopoly and Foursquare

Posted on September 6, 2011September 6, 2011 by Ewan Spence

Use the Foursquare API and accounts to run an ARG version of Monopoloy in real time. Want!

Goodnight Burbank makes another leap from podcast to broadcast

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Ewan Spence

Go Hayden! The first ever half-hour comedy made for the web just became the first ever half-hour comedy made for the web picked up by TV,” Black said. “The blurring of new and traditional media just got a whole lot blurrier. And I remember when Goodnight Burbank lifted the theme music from a certain BBC Current Affairs program…

Where’s the outpouring of tech memories for Cmdr Taco’s resignation?

Posted on August 25, 2011August 25, 2011 by Ewan Spence

Rob Malda: After 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted, it’s finally time for me to say goodbye to Slashdot. I created this place with my best friends in a run down house while still in college. Since then it has grown to be read by more than a million people, and has served billions and billions of pages. During my tenure I have done my best to keep Slashdot firmly grounded in its origins, but now it’s time for someone else to come aboard and find the future…

Is there enough goodwill in the world to keep coffee karma in credit?

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Ewan Spence

I’m loving Jonathan Stark’s idea of putting a digital copy of a Starbucks card online, so anyone can use it to buy a coffee in the coffee chain, and anyone can top it up for others to use. And it has an API.

Rolling.fm puts the “two of every idea” into “web two point oh.”

Posted on August 4, 2011August 4, 2011 by Ewan Spence

You know you’ve got something when the clones start appearing: All of this [on rolling.fm] is precisely identical to Turntable.fm, except the avatars, rooms and people look a little different. Oh, and when you like a song, it’s “hot” instead of “awesome” — dislike it, and it’s “weak” instead of “lame.” Plus, there’s a cat sitting on the speakers and the DJs rotate through to the same laptop instead of using their own.