Day two of Le Web 3 and it's time to give the latest raft of internet start-ups a hard time. Over 30 companies were invited to do an 'elevator pitch' - a kind of Dragon's Den but without the pantomime...more
Highlight of the afternoon so far was the bunfight between Emily Bell of The Guardian Unlimited and controversial 'Cult of the Amateur' author Andrew Keen - the Floyd Mayweather and Ricky 'Hitman' Hatton of the Web 2.0 world. Whereas...more
Here we are in Paris at Le Web 3 - a big Web 2.0 party, sorry, conference, where the great and good of the internet world - and bonkers designer Phillipe Starck - come together to chat, eat pastries...more
So YouTube sells to Google for $1.65 billion, not bad work for a start-up that's only been going 10 minutes. The venture capitalists must be rubbing their hands in glee. To be fair, it's no less than YouTube deserved. Over...more
OK that was a long 24 hours. But it's been a hectic old week since The Guardian Changing Media conference last Monday. We've been spending quite a bit of our time here at Shiny Media recently talking to various media...more