mashup* - Realtime Social Web
mashup* Event: 29th January 2009, 6pm - 9pm
Realtime Social Web
Theme: ‘Realtime Social Web’ – to explore and debate the realtime social web.
What is it ?
What is the value & why should I care ?
Where is it going ?
Location:
The British Computer Society
First Floor, The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London
WC2E 7HA
Postcode & Map: WC2E 7HA
Registration: £25+VAT (£30 cash/cheque on door)
please note this is a one-off price for this event only !
Programme:
18h00 - Registration (tea/coffee & biscuits)
18h30 - Speakers/Panel
19h00 - Panel/Q&A
20h10 - Networking & Demos
Theme:
The Real-Time Web Will Become Critical for News and Information Discovery
Delayed news will no longer be acceptable for early adopters, who will gravitate to the quickest sources of news, wherever they may be. As tools like Twitter Search and FriendFeed real-time offer people to rapidly broadcast their updates, reactions and news with true immediacy, a segment of the population will adopt these real-time sources and favor them ahead of delayed or filtered engines, including RSS, and of course, edited mass media. While many of us early adopters may be fairly noisy about this development, the mainstream is becoming more and more aware of these options. What happens then ?
Links to articles
http://mashable.com/2009/01/21/best-twitter-brands/
http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/01/18/twitter-the-new-frontline-of-journalism.aspx
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/01/25/twitter-meetup-spawns-global-charity-event/
Stephen Fry on the joys and dangers of twitter
Moderator: Sam Sethi
Sam's current technology interests focus on structured cloud computing
models, the open social web and the rapid move towards the real-time web.
Speakers & Panel
Alan Patrick is a co-founder of Broadsight, a specialist digital multi-media consultancy and system design house. He has worked with telecoms and media companies such as the BBC, British Telecom, Dolby, Alcatel Lucent, AOL Time Warner, Vodafone, Virgin media and UPC. He has worked in the US, Europe, South Africa and the Far East. Recent multi-media projects have been in the areas of Online Advertising, Cloud Ecosystems, Online Video and Web TV/IPTV, Real Time Search and Transaction Messaging and Next Generation Mobile Internet services.
Giles is the founder of Brandwatch - a company that has developed a system which monitors and measures lots of different aspects of social media. From identifying where conversations take place to the sentiment expressed towards Brands and products and evaluating the importance of the authors. This is all done by machines and it works in different languages.
Nick Halstead is the CEO & Founder favorit Ltd, which runs http://fav.or.it,
http://www.tweetmeme.com and http://www.feedbroker.net. Fav.or.it at launch
generated a frenzy of tech-media coverage for its approach to bringing a
more mainstream view of the social web to consumers and to businesses. Nick has been in development for over 15 years running multi-million budget
projects for some of the biggest development studios in the UK. An active
participant in the London Tech scene who likes to evangelise the use of
twitter, data portability and the use of the social web for businesses.
Paul Miller works at the interface between the worlds of Cloud Computing and the Semantic Web, providing the insights that enable you to exploit the next wave as we approach the World Wide Database.Paul writes a blog for ZDNet on the Semantic Web, records regular podcasts with thought leaders in the Semantic Web market, convenes the monthly Semantic Web Gang round-table podcast, and routinely presents and chairs panels at industry events.Paul holds a Doctorate in Archaeology from the University of York.
Katie Lips is a Social Media and Mobile strategist at Kisky Netmedia. She helps leading businesses and organisations to harness the power of social opportunities online and on the move. A strategist, maverick and entrepreneur, Katie is also cofounder at Treasuremytext.com a mobile 2.0 startup which enables people to keep their treasured SMS messages forever.
Katie’s recent projects include “The Amazing iPhone”: a report for business owners and marketers on the iPhone platform and opportunity and Coffee Buzz: “the coffee social on iPhone”.
Katie has long since evangelized “the social” online but believes that only now are we beginning to be able to harness the ‘now’. With new flexible mobile platforms (iPhone & Android) with always on data and a hungry army of developers and entrepreneurs, real time social media is now finally a viable, useful and exciting proposition.
Tim Panton has been a software developer for more than 25 years, working on a diverse range of projects, from chemical plant simulation to tourism web sites. He is also a contributor to open source projects, his first experiments with realtime web (although not social) were in 1996 . In recent years Tim has been predominantly involved in building and consulting on innovative real-time communications platforms for both work and play. Tim is especially interested in Voice communication and is active in the opensource VoIP world - speaking at VON, Ecomm and Astricon last year."
http://www.westhawk.co.uk
http://twitter.com/steely_glint
http://babyis60.wordpress.com
http://www.phonefromhere.com
Demos
Tempero is Europe's largest Social Media Management Company and consults on the creation and moderation of branded communities for a number of blue chip clients, including Lloyds TSB, Unilever and Disney as well as many within the public sector such as the BBC, NHS and NSPCC.
The company's expertise focuses on minimising risk and maximising the benefits of Social Media as a customer service and marketing channel.
www.tempero.co.uk
colaab offers collaboration both in real time with several users online
together, and in your own time when working individually. Through an
extremely rich yet simple user interface built entirely with Microsoft's
Silverlight technology, organizations and people can connect, communicate and collaborate over a wide range of content and information including documents, videos and images.
Users annotate and comment directly on aspecific area of content, with all
changes being reflected for all users immediately within their browser. An
instant messaging client and presence system supports real time discussion,while a full audit trail ensures you can keep track of all changes and comments made. With email, SMS messaging and even a conference calling feature built in, colaab offers a fully featured collaboration environment.
To see colaab in action for yourself, we invite you to sign up for a free
account at:
http://colaab.com
Or you can check out an overview video of colaab's main features by watching
the following video (about 9 minutes):http://colaab.com/Home.mvc/Videos
SocialPlume allows you to instantly create vibrant social websites by
plugging-in to conversations that are already happening around the
web. It's the easiest way to show off the things people are saying
about any brand, idea, phrase or topic while keeping you in control.
We're currently running a private beta and looking for organisations
that would like to take advantage of current media attention
surrounding Twitter to launch their own-branded social micro-site in
the n ext two weeks.
Please contact socialplume@inuda.com for more information.
Hemlock is a toolkit for building Flash applications that support real-time many-to-many interaction. Hemlock is open source and we hope to release it mid-February.
Check out the Mint demo at Mashup to see what it inspires.
Conexall is a communications and collaboration system for teams, groups and networks.
Conexall ensures that messages are received by all members of the team regardless of how they are sent.
The system does this by connecting all communications media, so that a message initiated by email, fixed line telephone, mobile phone or text messaging can be delivered by any of these means according to the recipient's routing preference.
Conexall also provides instant conferencing. By simply by calling the group connection, everyone's phones will ring simultaneously."
