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Getting the north east trading online – your input, please

September 15, 2009

Introduction I’ve been invited to take part in a roundtable event by RMT – my accountants. This is an excerpt from the invite: Getting the north east trading online @ RMT Gosforth on the 24th Sept 09 The aim of the day is to discuss how we can help get more north east based business [...]

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Byte Night update #1

September 10, 2009

Umm, I’ve been seriously slack in getting myself sorted for this – mega :$ However, I’ve resolved to do a ‘multi / social media’ sleep out, basically because I need to rev myself up, and also rev up my fundraising activities, because I’m so behind schedule. So, the idea is that you join me in [...]

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Please help me raise money for Action for Children #bytenight

August 10, 2009

I’ve decided to take part in Byte Night, a rather good Tech Industry fund-raiser, probably because I’ve seen photos of Jenny Agutter in Computing each year, and think it might be a good laugh. Speak it softly, but I’m sort of looking forward to donning a whole load of technical gear, as my interest in [...]

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@Opencast at Hoults Yard

July 16, 2009

Intro A post looking at Hoults Yard on Tyneside, and recent activities there: A recent Digital Transport event, run by Newcastle University A stop of the Digital Mission UK tour And the latest Think and a Drink event Hoults Yard This bit of the post is a quick write-up of a visit I made to [...]

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Digital Transport event feedback

July 9, 2009

I recently helped organise the “Where do you think You’re going” event that was held by Newcastle University at Hoults Yard. This post is a quick bulleted list of my feedback, and also a highlight of material from James Burke. Thoughts Content Eclectic and genuinely thought-provoking Presenters were clearly experts in their fields [well, from [...]

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GameHorizon feedback #gh09

July 9, 2009

My impressions I thought I should write up my thoughts re my recent attendence at GameHorizon: It seems pretty clear that the Computer Games industry is a major success story Apparently making more money than film & music [although all I can find on Google are rather dodgy get-rich-quick schemes which refer to this…!] What [...]

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Bigging up Cloud Camp / Seminar, & ‘Wii are the Champions’

July 7, 2009

In wanting to help Ross Cooney plug these events, I thought I’d re-produce his e-mail of today: “I am working with the organisers of a few IT related events based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne  on the 29th July and was thinking that you might be interested in attending some or all of these events: CloudSeminar CloudCamp Wii [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #8: ‘Round Up’ & Closing Comments

June 24, 2009

‘Round Up’ – Ian Livingstone Closing Comments – Carri Cunliffe GameHorizon #8: ‘Round Up’ & Closing Comments Technorati Tags: virtual worlds,metaverse,north east england,technology,interesting,ideas,gateshead,gamehorizon,games,business This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike license.

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GameHorizon live-blog #7: ‘Marking your self-published IP’; ‘Games driving other Interactive Content’;‘Heavy Rain’

June 24, 2009

Panel Discussion: ‘Game Exposure – The naked truth about marketing your self published IP’ Sponsored in partnership by BAFTA and Northern Film + Media. Chaired by Charles Cecil, MD of Revolution Software with Martyn Brown (Development Director, Team 17), Mark Morris (Managing Director, Introversion), Paul Farley (Managing Director, Tag Games). ‘How games can be used [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #6: ‘Future of Digital Distribution’; ‘Future Technologies’; ‘PlayStation Home’

June 24, 2009

‘Separating Fact from Fiction: the Future of Digital Distribution’ Roger Walkden, CEO, AWOMO ‘Future Technologies’ Steve Clayton, Microsoft ‘Development Opportunities in PlayStation Home’ Peter Edward, Director, PlayStation Home Platform Group UPDATE – I’m publishing the first bit of this session as a bulleted list, as the CIL service was offline to begin with… ‘Separating Fact [...]

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