Amplified08 Newsletter #4

Amplified 08 Newsletter 4

by @joannejacobs

Welcome to the fourth newsletter for Amplified08.  As Chain Reaction (http://www.chain-reaction.org/) dies 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!

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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!