Posts Tagged ‘Picnic08’

  • More Internet of Things

    Thanks to Russell Davies for posting on Tikitag’s RFID solution and reminding me that - following a great presentation by Rafi Haladjian from Violet at PICNIC last week - I’d meant to look a little more into the Internet of Things. (If only for an upcoming client presentation on new opportunities for connected retail experiences…)

  • The Future of Mobile - Industry Leader Interview: PICNIC08, Guy Laurence of Vodafone

    Google’s G1 - “The Zune of Smartphones”

    Guy Laurence is CEO of Vodafone Netherlands, and - for added delight - he’s interviewed by Kara Swisher of AllThingsD, already responsible for one of PICNIC’s great lines this year: “Apple’s design philosophy is tasteful fascism.”

    After the disappointment of the previous Google presentation, this is a treat.

  • Respect to LBi Lost Boys - PICNIC08

    As you’ll have gathered, our hosts for PICNIC08 were our awesome Dutch colleagues over at LBi Lost Boys who were co-sponsoring the event.
    It’s been a great week for the Lost Boys team, they’ve just made the top 5 list for dutch advertising agencies, and they were also around covering PICNIC for their own Lost Boys TV [...]

  • PICNIC08 - More gratuitous photos…

    Gav and Dom, hard at work…

    …The PICNIC grounds…

    Why, what a fine looking magazine that is…

  • What will Google do? PICNIC08

    So, this is what the programme has to say, be advised - it’s misleading as hell: “Google’s European Director will talk about some of the company’s newest initiatives and strategies. From Andriod to AdSense, and from Streetview to bringing internet by satellite to Africa. With a special focus on Google’s European business and development strategies. [...]

  • PICNIC08, gratutious photos

    Crazy speaker car…

     
     

  • Celebrating collaborative creativity: a showcase of creative production - PICNIC08

    And yet still more from Gavin, this time looking at a number of examples ranging from the film industry, through music, and finally highlighting how collaborative platforms could (please, bring it on…) help twist the knife in the side of bloated traditional media businesses. Oh yes…

  • Design as a collaborative process: Bill Moggridge (IDEO), Younghee Jung (Nokia) - PICNIC08

    More from Gavin Edwards helping to cover PICNIC08 for us, this time on the Design as a Collaborative Process session featuring Bill Moggridge of IDEO (who Gav appears to like) and Younghee Jung from Nokia who doesn’t get such a good response…

  • Commercial Collaborations: Tools, things and toys - Rafi Haladjian #2

    Gav’s already written a little about the presentation given by Radi Haladjian from Violet, but worth saying some more I think - the Internet of Things is way cool, and Rafi and Violet are as close to bringing it about as anyone else - plus Rafi is one of the most engaging presenters I’ve seen for [...]

  • Industry leader interview: The Future of Television, Mike Fries, Liberty Global

    So, another post from Gavin, and I would use one of the pictures from our catch up drink last night but, to be honest, they wouldn’t show him at his best. This time, he picks up another perennial LBiQ favourite topic, the future of TV.

  • Commerical collaborations: Tools, Things and Toys, Rafi Haladjian of Violet

    As promised yesterday, Gavin Edwards of LBi is doing a spot of LBiQ.net guest writing.
    Here he is on Rafi Haladjian, creator of Nabaztag and - if you believe Gavin - a man who’s next venture (the Mir:ror) is a steal of something that Gav did at college…

  • Commercial collaborations: Tools, things and toys, PICNIC08 - Michael Tchao Nike+

    Everyone loves Nike+, you can’t move in London these days for the same agency types who once happily swanned about saying “Ooooh! You should get a brand profile on MySpace” now saying “Well, of course, it’s all about marketing as a service now, just look at Nike+”.
    The thing is, they typically can’t give you any other [...]

  • Here Comes Everybody - Clay Shirky keynote PICNIC08

    OK, a little late to get this post up which I’ll blame on the quality of the PICNIC drinks reception held by LBi Lost Boys at the end of the day. A chance to see some fantastic work (live in a week or I’d like to it now…) for Mitsubishi as well as to lay into [...]

  • Introducing Gavin Edwards, PICNIC08

    So, second day at PICNIC and myself and Dom are lucky enough to have been joined by LBi’s awesome Gavin Edwards, delayed by pitch and client commitments. Whatever the above picture may suggest (look carefully and you’ll see an early release copy of LBiQ issue 4 on the table under all the beer), the deal [...]

  • Cottaging @ PICNIC08

    Well, not cottaging at all, but what’s the point of reading Copyblogger if you can’t try to put the ‘Diggable headlines’ principle into practice?
    So, dealing with the excess lunchtime Heineken, I came face to face with this random toilet based execution from tvents.nl who are busy promoting their video tech with a dedicated PICNIC site. [...]

  • The emerging real time social web - PICNIC08, Jaiku, Dopplr, Allofme.com, Second Life

    I’ll keep this one brief, as Dom managed to get his coverage up last night, and you can find a good write up here on Ethan Zuckerman’s blog. (Looking forward to seeing Ethan speak on Africa later).
    Linda Stone  (very accomplished facilitator) starts off by playing a video that I’m prepared to bet you £10 you’ve [...]

  • Duelling with Distance - PICNIC08, Stefan Agamanolis

    Stefan Agamanolis of Distance Lab is ex-MIT.
    These days his mission is “is to bring together engineering, design, and the arts to challenge the way people think about distance and to help overcome its disadvantages in learning, health, relationships, culture, and other domains.”

  • The Sheep Market - Aaron Koblin @ PICNIC08

    If you know of Aaron Koblin, it’ll probably be for one of two reasons:
    - You followed the online debate around Sheep Market (very big in PICNIC’s graphics this year)
    - You think the video he did for Radiohead’s (amazing) House of Cards, the one that didn’t use any lights or cameras, is, well, amazing.

     
    The way he [...]

  • We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity - PICNIC08 Keynote by Charles Leadbeater

    It’s 15 minutes into Charles Leadbeater’s opening keynote on collaboration and creativity when I get over my longterm personal issues with Twitter and check the pulse of the room.
    Blaming the rush to the venue (running late due to abysmal service by BMI and the crazed antics of Ramon, our Colombian cab driver), I assumed that [...]