Mike Butcher interviewed by Scoble

Video of Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch UK interviewed by Robert Scoble.

Mike tells Robert's mainly US audience how the UK and Europe tech scene is performing compared to the US.

Mobile 2.0 and location-based apps such as Jaiku get mentioned by Mike as being ahead of current offerings in the States.

Round-up of tech predictions for 2008

At this time of year there is no shortage of predictions what will happen in the tech industry over the coming 12 months.

From Bill Thompson's 'Cloudy visions of the future' on the BBC, to CNet's Top 5 tech predictions of 2008 to The Economist's 'Three fearless predictions' critiqued on Slashdot, it will be fascinating to see how tech developments evolve over the next year.

Also worth catching is John Battelle's view plus Mike Arrington on CrunchNotes pointing to Loren Feldman's thought provoking 2008 predictions.

On-demand service from BBC, ITV and Channel4

Broadcasters the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 have joined forces to offer a unified on-demand service. First reported five months ago in June, today more news of the on-demand joint venture code-named 'Kangaroo' was announced.

The existing VOD services iPlayer from the BBC, and ITV's video player are reported to continue on their respective channels, however Channel 4's 4oD is said to be due to be incorporated within the new service.

Pricing is reported as "all three broadcasters will be available for free download, streaming, rental and purchase via the internet, with expansion on to other platforms planned."

Sergey introduces the Android demo

Tumblelog evolvement

On April 12th 2005 the tumblelog came into existence. Jason Kottke described tumblelogs as:

"A tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream of consciousness, a bit like a remaindered links style linklog but with more than just links. They remind me of an older style of blogging, back when people did sites by hand, before Movable Type made post titles all but mandatory, blog entries turned into short magazine articles, and posts belonged to a conversation distributed throughout the entire blogosphere. Robot Wisdom and Bifurcated Rivets are two older style weblogs that feel very much like these tumblelogs with minimal commentary, little cross-blog chatter, the barest whiff of a finished published work, almost pure editing...really just a way to quickly publish the "stuff" that you run across every day on the web"

Thanks to the maestros of usability: 37signals for featuring a post on the latest version of Tumblr, one of the most effective tumblelogs.

Liberate Media PR celebrate

There was a big turn out for Liberate Media's first birthday party in Soho on Thursday night.

A smattering of technology and social networking cognoscienti from New Media Age, BBC Technology Online, Creative, Pushbutton.tv, Spannerworks, and many more raised a glass to Wendy McAuliffe and Lloyd Gofton at Liberate Media PR for their first year in business.

Journa-list, an online resource by subject and author

Thanks to Bobbie Johnson in Technology Guardian for drawing attention to Journa-list currently in beta.

It aims to be a collection of online journalism currently being written in the UK.

Search by name or topic and see cloud-style the most covered topics.