A few weeks ago, Firefox contributors from around the world met at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View, CA for the Firefox Summit 2006. Below is a link to the Agenda and Proposed Sessions. Sadly I couldn’t go but last week I met Ian Hayward of Glaxstar – UK developers of Firefox add-ons (Yahoo’s delicious add-on) and the organiser of the Firefox party, which I will be going to this… → Read More
I’m still astonished how quickly Second Life has mainstreamed, Duran Duran gigs aside, there’s a surprisingly rapid corporate adoption of virtual presences by the likes of IBM, Reuters and American Apparel. Recently I learned that Theakston is also seeking to establish a virtual pub in SL! Linden Lab’s creation is giving rise to a interesting secondary economy of real estate… → Read More
I just updated the TechCrunch UK event listing and realised I missed off the Geek Girl Dinner number 9 which is this Wednesday with special guest stars Robert and Maryam Scoble along with Hugh MacLeod. Sadly the event appears to be full with a waiting list forming already. Apologies to the A-List bloggers but I think the most interesting speaker will be Nicholas Ampazis from Feeds 2.0 who will… → Read More
Robert Scoble – author of the Naked Conversations – and now Podtech ScobleShow, is coming to the UK next week. He’ll be presenting at the Online Information 2006 conference with Adriana Cronin-Lukas. Robert says “I have my video camera and would love to meet up with anyone who has interesting technology to show me.” Robert and Hugh McLeod are also trying to organise a… → Read More
For the last few months I have been talking with Manoj Ranaweera and Ivan Pope of Snipperoo to create a series of entrepreneurial networking events outside of London. I am pleased to say that on Thursday night the first NW Startup 2.0 event took place in Manchester and over 30 people attended. I was going to write a post on this but one of my fellow speakers David Terrar of Twinfield and the… → Read More
Ben Laurie, of Apache-SSL fame has posted about the the First London Open Source Jam, to be held at Google’s London Victoria HQ this Thursday, 16th Nov. Quoting: “Some people may choose to present a 5 minute lightning talk on what they’re doing. Then little groups will form and people will work together on code! We’ll encourage contributing good things back to open source… → Read More
I have been speaking with Ian Hayward – MD for Glaxstar – about a Firefox 2 launch party here in London for a few weeks now. As yet the party venue has not been confirmed, nor sadly the date, due to a few changes in the flight arrangements of the Firefox keynote speakers coming over. But one thing I can confirm is the venue will be “somewhere cool” in central London (able… → Read More
I had the good fortune to be invited by NMK to put together a half-day seminar on the phenomena of the new 3D worlds of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) and Virtual Worlds (the main one being Second Life of course). Had I not been chairing it I would have been able to take better notes, and I will try to put something up soon about it. However, as usual there were some… → Read More
I think it was only towards the end of last year that Simon Grice’s etribes-backed panel and networking event started, but it quickly became one of the handful of good places to go and “talk Web 2.0″ in London. It’s no coincidence I guess that etribes relaunched soon after mashup got going. The next mashup event is on 13th December (Wednesday), in central London. The last… → Read More
Loic Le Meur [France's most influential blogger] has just opened the registration for Les Blogs 3, which I have been eagerly awaiting and he has even given it the new name of Le Web 3. Why the change? Well Loic explains that he wanted it to be more general than just blogs. “We had 450 people from 25 countries last year, we expect 1000 bloggers and key Web2.0 players this year.” Les… → Read More
London Mixer which is run by PaidContent.org was originally going to be on the 17th October at the same time as Beers & Innovation and Swedish Beers but they have graciously rearranged the date for their 1st event in London, which is now on October 18th, starting at 6pm until 9pm. The venue is still at the Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA. “As the name suggests… → Read More
Good news the next intimate Internet “Peeps” Dinner organised by Robert Loch is fast approaching. The last one was excellent. This dinner takes place on 16th October and starts at 7pm with the Q & A commencing promptly at 7.30pm. and the evening goes on until late. There will be approximately 50 attendees who will be a mix of entrepreneurs and investors only. The theme of… → Read More
I had the pleasure of speaking with Ryan Carson today about the “Future of Web Apps 2007″, which is currently in the planning! Anyone who was lucky enough to go to the last one here in London or the recent one in San Francisco will tell you that they are simple top-notch and not to be missed. Ryan and I were discussing some of the speakers who will be speaking for certain at this years… → Read More
The next Geek Dinner which is run by Ian Forrester is on October 20th, starting at 6:30pm until 11:00pm, at The Bottlescrue, 53 – 60 Holburn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2FD The Special Guest is Molly Holzschlag. Molly is a regular at the London Geek Dinners and still enjoys the social scene in London while jetsetting the world in her quest for a better web. She’s over in London speaking at… → Read More
Re:Transmission is a gathering of citizen journalists, video makers, artists, programmers and web producers who are developing online video distribution tools for social justice and media democracy. The event is held on Friday 13th October until Sunday 15th October The venue(s) is the Limehouse Town Hall, London, also British Film Institute and RampArt Social Centre The background to the event is… → Read More
The Etech Conference (2007) is once again shortly upon us. It begins March 26th and goes on for 3 days until 29th March, 2007. This year it will be at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. If you think you have a cool technology worth showcasing, then why not submit your proposal. The submission deadline for all proposals is October 9, 2006. Speakers will be notified by October 30… → Read More
This weekend was Ireland first BarCamp in Cork, with over 100 people attending. You can get an idea of the talks for yourself from this picture of the schedule. The main topics covered included microformats, OPML, funding, startups, Second Life and Tom Raftery gave talks on a new Data Centre being built in Cork and on the Web 2.0 controversy earlier this year. There are some pictures online here… → Read More
In the next few weeks & months there are a lot of events happening across the UK & Ireland. I am contemplating either putting together a “socialtext” wiki to enable event organisers to list their own events here on TechCrunch or would you prefer me to use something like UpComing.org. The reason I ask is because once again we have a clash of events in London. There are three… → Read More
After what seems an age since the last successful event, Second Chance Tuesday the investor, startup “dating agency” organsied by Judith Clegg and Michael Smith, is back and with a bang! After several lengthy discussions it was felt that it would be of greater value to the potential start-up community [attending] to initially hear from an experienced Entrepreneur and/or Venture… → Read More
If you are in London this week, there is the next in the Mashup Series where the topic this time is Digital LifeStyle Aggregators. DLA’s are personal homepages for your browser that enable you to aggregate all the information sources you want in one place. On the panel for this event are Tariq Krim (CEO & Founder) of Netvibes and Marc Canter (CEO & Founder) of People Aggregator. I… → Read More
Hugh McLeod, he of gapingvoid fame, is talking about inviting bloggers to a private screening of a new film called Hallam Foe. At the moment the Hallam Foe film screening has been tentatively pencilled in for 28th September followed by a Geek dinner? The aim is to get the invitees to blog about the film and spread the word. Hugh describes it as a “what do you think” event which reminds… → Read More
There is another London Geek Girl Dinner this week. (29th August) Obviously it’s strictly for women but there is one way chaps to get in according to Sarah Blow: “If you are male and wish to attend this event you must bring a female with you or be brought by a female. NO FEMALE, NO ENTRY!!!! Sorry Guys! (We will keep the numbers balanced!) And ladies, one date only please!” Right… → Read More
Geek Party In The Park 27th August 2006 Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire If you live in the Midlands and not to far away from Royal Leamington Spa, then you might be interested in Geek in the Park a day-long get together, picnic, and discussion for anyone to do with the Internet (developers, designers, programmers… ). This is a very informal affair so family and friends are… → Read More
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