Archive : Events

For those interested, here’s a brief list of interesting events coming up in the end of 2009. 30th November (Monday) – NOAH’09 2nd December (Wednesday) – eMeet 9th – 10th December (Wednesday / Thursday) –  Le Web 15th December (Tuesday) – ChristmasCrunch 17th December (Thursday) – TBA: Keep your calendars free for this one! If you know of any other events [...]

Yesterday in a warm Thistle Hotel in the West End of rainy London, team mashup* presented the Social Media ’09 conference. With a kick-off at 2pm, SM09 featured four hours of case studies and presentations from around 20 people, all from different backgrounds, with something to share about how their company uses Social Media. In the audience were 200 of London’s leading social media strategists [...]

140conf is fast approaching. In less than two weeks time, London‘s o2 Indigo will be hosting the biggest Twitter get-together in the UK. The original scope of #140conf was to explore “the effects of twitter on: Celebrity, “The Media”, Advertising and (maybe) Politics.” Over time the scope expanded to look at the effects of twitter on topics ranging from public safety to public diplomacy. The [...]

This year’s Affiliate Marketing Conference and Exhibition was so well organised and produced, if you didn’t attend you’ll have to take my word that a4uexpo 20009 was one of the best events I’ve ever attended. Set in the ExCeL, which is a brilliant venue (FOWA was hosted here during 2007/8), the event covered several floors. There was the expo area, and 3 large conference rooms. [...]

The Sporkings team can often be found at events in and around London, where a lot of the technology events take place. But every now and then, something outside of our radar catches our attention. On the 21st November 2009, something very cool is happening in Cambridge. ‘Cambridge Geek Day’. Organised by the very young, but very smart Jamie Rumbelow, this is to be a very developer oriented [...]

Image via CrunchBase When TechCrunch team up with 2pears/Twisted Tree you know you’re going to be in for a day/night of entertainment – and that’s exactly what we received on Thursday 24th September at Café de Paris. Petra Johansson and Rassami Hok Ljungberg from the newly formed 2pears organised the event, hosted by Mike Butcher, Editor of TechCrunch Europe. The idea was [...]

17th November 2009 at the O2 Indigo, London. [12% discount code: KJCXIDKA or click here] Themes that will be discussed are twitter as a platform and as a language we speak. “Over time it will neither be the only platform nor the only language. #140conf is not an event about  microblogging or the place where people share twitter “tips and techniques” but rather where we explore the effects [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the largest 3G wireless operator in USA, Verizon, announced the launch of a new app store: the Widget Bazaar. This storefront is aimed at providing new widgets and applications for its Fios TV clients. Some of Verizon’s partners will develop the apps for now. “From the beginning we said we wanted Fios to be a platform for innovation,” – Shaygan Kheradpir, Verizon [...]

This is typical, she’s clearly a paid hot model, with no idea about comics/sci-fi, and she has absoluteley no idea what character she is! To be honest neither do I but that’s not the point she’s supposed to sell it to me. Bad form @Paramount teach ‘em who they’re supposed to be.

30th September – 2nd October 2009, Kensington Town Hall, London. Full day of workshops on 30th Sept followed by a 2 day, 1 track event at Kensington Town Hall on 1st- 2nd Oct. How to build Facebook Connect + openID into your site – Dave Morin Building Web Apps Using Atlas – Francisco Tolmasky Kick-ass Online Marketing Techniques – Alex Hunter How to Build a Web App from A-Z [...]