Is the new ‘widgetised’ online culture set to collapse?

by Miko Coffey | 30th October 2008

At this year’s ad:tech there were a few decent seminars, but one speaker’s comments in particular has stuck in my mind long after the event. Umair Haque was part of the Chinwag panel discussion called ‘Micro Media Maze’ and he drew parallels between the current financial crisis and the state of the online landscape. Now [...] Read More

Anonymity, identity & the future according to gurus

by Miko Coffey | 7th December 2007

Last night I went along to Chinwag Live‘s final event of 2007, and as usual it was chock full of interesting people and ideas. The event this time around was focused on the future, and those jolly Chinwag chaps & chapettes asked some of the UK’s leading marketing and digital media folks to tell us [...] Read More

Web 2.0: solving the little problems

by Miko Coffey | 16th February 2007

A post I wrote following up on the Wobble 2.0 event, hosted over at the NESTA blogs. It’s about the fact that I don’t think Web 2.0 is necessarily about solving the big problems of the world, but instead solving the little problems that make you think “There must be a better/easier way of doing [...] Read More