dcinput daily for Sun 28th Jan, 2007
MiniBar - the web meetup for Londonites
Friday night I was at the London MiniBar at Corbet Place, Old Truman Brewery. This was a chance to informally meet and chat with other people who are involved or interested in web related projects. With so much of the web related action seeming to be happening stateside it was really good to meet people who were London based.
The theme for this months meeting was “Online Video - What to do with all this user generated content?”. Michela Ledwidge did a presentation on Modfilms that aim to become a platform for storytellers to exchange film components and remix them into new works. I had a chat with her afterwards and the project is definitely one to keep an eye on.
John Wilson was live blogging the event, info about the other presentations in his post.
It was good hanging out with Toby Harris (*spark), Ali McClymont (superfineshag), Amit Kothari (QuotationsBook), Marton Dow (Rightscom), Deirdre Molloy (Chinwag) and Pete Tayor & Nana Aganovich (Aganovich).
The MiniBar is rapidly gathering momentum, I’ll certainly be there next month.
Arin Crumley’s latest videoblog “The Collective Experience” made at the Sundance Film festival looks at whether going to the cinema is dying out. Arin is a natural born storyteller.
January 28th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
[…] The minibar had some fairly uninspired presentations by a few new websites, the details are all slightly hazy due to the free alcohol on offer, but Mark Smith aka dcinput jotted down the more important details. One really interesting bit was a short Q and A with one of the Flickr investors, she gave a few pertinent hints on getting investment for your website. The key one being the business model, or how am i going to make lots of money from you. Take a look at the incredibly rubbish snap (lady investor circled). […]