Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
No. But the starting gun has been fired by the Fringe Society with today’s press launch. As usual, there’s a big press release, highlighting a handful of the 2871 shows that will perform in Edinburgh during August, and almost every name in the press release is ‘big’ enough to interest the mainstream media. Still, that leaves 2821 other shows to investigate!
Their New York event was going to be the big announcement, the moment that Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop could say not just that Nokia was back, but that Nokia was back with the best smartphone in the business. Unfortunately they had to demonstrate their new cutting edge smartphones with one hand deliberately tied behind their back by Microsoft. By me, over on Forbes.
Finally. Now, let’s see who’s smart enough to use it and make a big PR splash or their pet projects.
Spotify hits the US. Over in Europe their route was "free" then "premium" which really meant pay for the version on your mobile. Over in the US it’s going to be different. $5 /month to get going or $10/month for the premium model (which has the smartphone capability) – plus some free accounts in the lucky dip of Web 2.0 services like Klout – mimicking the rush for invites and promoting Spotify online as people beg for invites. And of course Spotify has some entrenched opposition and the music labels in the US aren’t as friendly as they were in
[Cross posted from The Edinburgh Fringe Show site] Welcome to the official start of the 2011 season of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: The Festival Fringe Society is thrilled to announce the 2011 Fringe programme, crammed full of the stories, reflections and experiences of artists, producers and companies from all over the world. True to form this year’s Festival Fringe is bigger than ever before with the programme featuring 2,542 events. That’s how the Edfringe press release put it (along with picking out some of their highlights) as the programme was launched today, for tickets to go on sale tomorrow. And
As the Fringe officially opens, join me as I run round all the preview parties, gala launches and press events to find out what a bumper selection of guests are up to for the 2010 Fringe. Introduced by Ewan Spence, for The Stage and The Podcast Network.
