Amplified08
Welcome to the fourth newsletter for Amplified08. As Chain Reactiondies down on Southbank, Amplified08 is being designed to provide
the space for those technology and business entrepreneurs to realise
some of the ideals proposed there. It's good to be part of such an
active community!
The good news on the ticketing front is that we've discovered some
people who have actually registered twice via our registration system
so a few tickets opened up. If you haven't got a ticket and you'd love
to be at Amplified08, now's your chance. So get over there and
register now!
The bad news is that no-one has offered any goodies or gadgets or
services for the Amplified08 event bag. We're not looking for
brochures so much as actual hard goods. Does anyone have any
materials they are prepared to donate.
This edition of the Amplified08 newsletter focuses on some of the
basics, and provides another session profile. There's also a fabulous
entry on the development of linkages between participating communities
provided by @DT. Thanks to all who have contributed!
Some of the basics
by @joannejacobs
Lots of people are now asking us to provide regular links to all the
sources associated with Amplified08. So here they are.
Main site - http://www.amplified08.com
Wiki - http://amplified.pbwiki.com/
Event Brite Registration page (providing full list of attendees) -
http://amplified08.eventbrite.com/
Twitter posts - (hashtag #amp08)
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23amp08
;
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=amplified08
NESTA - http://www.nesta.org.uk/
NESTA location (1 Plough Place, London, where the event is being
held) -
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=EC4A 1DE
Newsletter 1 for Amplified08 -
http://www.amplified08.com/2008/11/last-fridays-newsletter/
Newsletter 2 for Amplified08 -
http://www.amplified08.com/2008/11/amplified08-newsletter-2/
Newsletter 3 for Amplified08 -
http://www.amplified08.com/2008/11/amplified08-newsletter-3/
Let me know if you need anything further!
LWW and CCC London joining the Network
by @DT
I'm involved in facilitating two of the groups that will be
contributing to Amplified 08. The common theme of the London Wiki
Wednesday
community is application of wiki technology to improve
collaboration, with people involved from a all types of organizations
from business, to education, to not for profit ventures. Although we
have some Wikipedians in the group, the emphasis is more enterprisey
and practical rather than technical. Meetings are very much community
led discussions, but with everyone having the chance to stand up and
present or speak for 5 minutes on their particular project, issue, or
idea.
CreativeCoffee Club London
is a small band of creatives, professionals, photographers,
musicians and practitioners who are interested in creativity and
innovation. We all believe that creativity should be part of the day
to day processes of the businesses and organizations that we work
for, and we all believe that our education system doesn't put enough
emphasis on thinking skills. Sir Ken Robinson's book, Out Of Our
Minds
, is a great manifesto for highlighting how our education system was
designed in the 19th century for the Industrial Age, and needs some
radical reform to cater for the 21st Century and the Information Age.
Our meetings tend to involve very free ranging discussions across a
whole gamut of topics related to what comes next in innovation.
Both the communities see the power of the network effect that we'll
get by combining all of the meetups in to a regular Network of
Networks. We're all enthusiastic about how the current social media
tools can amplify what we do, and the power of the idea of coming
together to ask "what works, what doesn't, what next?". We also think
that Europe is poorly served when it comes to events that bring
together innovation across all of the sectors of industry,
government, and broadcast media. If we can work with NESTA to make
the 2010 event bridge the silos and have something of the flavour of
a TED conference
for Europe, that would be quite an achievement - well worth aiming
for!
Session Focus: The Future of Online Video at Ampified 08
by @freecloud
In this session at Amplified 08, I will present a summary of findings
from a research project we have undertaken over the last 2 months. We
will examine the current situation:
- structure of the online video market value chain
- structure of the players in the market
- rough market sizing
- relative prospects for growth
I will also give some views as to the future of the market, in
particular the interplay between:
- Content : UGC vs Curated, Short Form v Long Form
- Rights: Piracy vs Copyright issues
- Economics: 'FreeConomics' vs building a sustainable businesses
- Which Screen?: Fixed vs Mobile video
The last section will be for prospective startups where the
opportunities seem to lie, and I hope to have a good & robust
discussion on all these area. Here is the url link for an initial
slideshare pack for the session:
http://broadstuff.com/archives/1377-The-Future-of-Online-Video-at-Amplified-08.html
* Editor's note: I'm still looking for more sessions to be elaborated
in these newsletters. 1.5 more chances, folks, so get your
descriptions in now!
Well that's four newsletters down. There's only two newsletters to
go, folks, so if you want to get your sessions profiled in this
newsletter, your best bet is the edition that comes out this Friday,
as the last newsletter will include last minute instructions for the
gig. So if you haven't already done so PLEASE get your session
descriptions in to me ASAP
