Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

I’m in Amsterdam for the build up to IBC, where I’m exec producing the Digital Lifestyles theme day.
I’m staying at the Bilderberg Garden Hotel, which is pleasant enough and in a really lovely part of town - just south of the Nooder Amstelkannal. I walked in to the RAI (exhibition halls) today and the […]

I’m having to gather a number of people together in a number of conference calls over the next few weeks, so have been looking around for easy to use solutions that are reasonably priced.
I came across Voicemeeting which appear to hit the criteria. There’s a simple Web interface to set up the calls which […]

While I was in Singapore in June at Broadcast Asia 2004 and took the metro/train/tube a couple of times. It was a very pleasant experience compared with the London tube as it had air conditioned, large trains.
I took the opportunity to do a bit of people watching, in particular how they were with technology. Here’s […]

This looks like an interesting idea that I’ll have to try next time I’m in West London. OYBike let’s you hire a bike for as little as 15 mins. When you find the bike you want, you simply call up their operators and a code is texted to you to unlock the bicycle and away […]

I’m chairing a panel reviewing the speed of take-up of Digital TV around the world for the Royal Television Society, London Centre this Thursday (1st July). The speakers are some of the leading experts in their fields, so it should be highly informative.
Of particular interest will be getting the inside view of the UK government-sponsored […]

Tav tells me the second WTF (WTF’s The Future) event is happening on Saturday 29th May at the 491 Gallery, London. Due to other commitments I had missed the first and regretted it - and looking at the line up it was pretty varied. If you’re intersted in a wider use of technology than straight […]

I’m flattered to have been asked by the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) to Exec Produce the Digital Lifestyles theme day at IBC2004 again this year.
For those who aren’t familiar with IBC, it’s the largest broadcast show outside the US (NAB is the only one larger). Held once a year in the RAI in Amsterdam, […]

On Friday, Fraser Lovatt covered the launch of BBCi’s one Minute Movies on Digital-Lifestyles.info. They are appealing to anyone to create a film, on any subject; using whatever equipment they have to hand. The only stipulation is that it should be around 1 minute long. The BBC will then make them available to the world.
I […]

There has not been a new Top Level Domains (TLD) since .name came out a couple of years ago. Even that ended up as a bit of a damp squib. But now a collection of nine corporations, have applied to ICANN (Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers) to form a new domain. Their proposal, […]

SEOBook.com has found a search engine that works on auction sites such as eBay. The data appears to be building up slowly - the most recent data for an iPod search was dated sept.03. This appears to be down to them needing to have the permission of the person holding the auction - eBay expressly […]