links for 2007-06-20
20 June 2007
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Not quite there yet myself but a great piece on the next life stage of a start-up
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Flash(y) new site for eBay but perhaps not enough in the AIR/Sliverlight tussle
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Looks like the Y Combinator model is working nicely
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One to work through later - great lists for WordPress, hints & tips, monetisation etc
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Game maker for all
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Great tips for the pitch to investors and what should be in the ppt slide deck
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Reducing risk in a start-up; turning a “no” into a “maybe” into a “yes” (and hoping it doesn’t turn back to “no” before the money hits the bank account
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Quite a few of these about but might be useful in the future
Local graffiti art
20 June 2007
Local graffiti art
Originally uploaded by Poo Bar.
This appeared on the wall of the underpass I walk through from Easton to the River Frome heading into Bristol. There are some rustic scenes at the entrances to the tunnels, but this is much more colourful!
links for 2007-06-19
19 June 2007
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Serious games, learning and the SGI in Coventry
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Legal heavy discussion on raising finance in the US and the knife-edge between being a friendly finder and an unregistered broker-dealer
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Big Blue gets serious about games
links for 2007-06-18
18 June 2007
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Great stub, plus link to longer article ‘Investing 101′
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Productivity P0rn - great ideas culled from all over and mixed to Mark’s special recipe
links for 2007-06-15
15 June 2007
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Video of entrepreneurs pitching to Kara and the difference between EU & US for tech startups
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Lots of others covering but proof that IPO’s in games might still be around
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Changing the business model at Series B -
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More reading , found via Scoble
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Possible changes afoot - also links to related stories below the article
Dorkbot celebrates 10yrs of camera phone
15 June 2007
I was at the Dorkbot Bristol celebration of the 10th Anniversary for the Camera-phone.
The opening instruction (after some networking and beers) was ‘All phones on!’ and on speaker phone. Almost immediately we had two interruptions. Scott Fletcher was self-proclaimed expert out the front, and did an excellent job at entertaining and informing.
The story was that Philippe Kahn invented the camera phone 10 years ago to capture and share the birth of his new daughter (though there’s some dispute about authenticity), he wouldn’t share that but did record his daughter’s 10th birthday cake being blown out. Confusingly he was calling his dog ‘CameraPhone’ which must make for some interesting conversations in the park!
The main highlight of the evening was a movie compiled from submissions sent in celebration of the nearly ubiquitous device. As Scott said, individually they weren’t much good but as a composition, well my notes from the event read ‘Disjointed, grainy, crap sound but weirdly compelling - a bit like the mind washing Clockwork Orange scene’
There was also a longer montage of stills taken on a phone that were then sequenced into stop frame animation, at roughly 1 photo every 4 minutes, the sequence was sped up to roughly 4 frames a second. The result was very captivating and entrancing. Not sure if it’s on YouTube or somewhere?
links for 2007-06-14
14 June 2007
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Registration now open
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With a long list of things to think about in submitting proposals for workshops/papers/etc
links for 2007-06-13
13 June 2007
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Great analysis of the up & down sides to success with Facebook
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Achieve profits in 3 months &/or double profits in same period? This is one for reading slowly.
links for 2007-06-12
12 June 2007
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Great business model for games - episodic - not new but working for Telltale
