Convergence Conversation

September's Convergence Conversation topic:

Location is Dead, Long Live Location - all hail the rise of location based services

Everybody knows that the top three success factors for retail, and by extension, any consumer sales proposition, used to be 'location, location and location.'  Then the Internet came along and we were all shopping from home and suddenly location seemed to matter less and less. But thanks to mobility and broadband everywhere, a whole new chapter in the location story is being written.

In this convergence conversation we explore the coming tidal wave of Location Based Services – from retail, to advertising, to service delivery

Join us here at Intellect after work - to listen, learn, contribute and network.  The Convergence Conversation format is always deliberately informal, with a chance for everyone to put forward their views in an open discussion and network over a glass More...

The Information roundup - Friday 20 August

We bring you a selection from the blogs posted on convergenceconversation.com over the last few weeks.    Read on  - to be informed and stimulated, to agree or disagree; to add your comments and to add your own blog if you have something to say :-

I got Busted on Twitter
by Costas Troulos of Broadband Prime

All of my twitter followers received earlier today a DM from me giving out iPADs for free. Of course, the people who actually know me know that I wouldn’t give out iPADs, an FTTH connection maybe, but not iPADs.This was a spam message from those infamous sites luring you into giving your mobile phone and fill you up with SMS at 2 euros per turn!

Anyways, since my followers seem to be more intelligent than myself, they did not catch the bait. More...

Date:                     Thursday 26 August 2010
Time:                     18:00-20:00 - 
                               Registration from 17:30,
                               Wine and Cheese before and during the meeting
Venue: More...

The Information roundup - Friday 30 July 2010

This brings you a selection from the blogs posted on convergenceconversation.com over the last 2 weeks.    Read on  - to be informed and stimulated, to agree or disagree; to add your comments and to add your own blog if you have something to say?

Is more bandwidth what we value most?
by Brian Williamson of Plum Consulting

The Convergence Conversation scheduled for 29 July 2010 raises the question “How much bandwidth do we need?” To answer this question, we need to consider not just bandwidth, but also other attributes of connectivity, how much we value improvements in each of them and what those improvements would cost. The following picture provides a way of viewing three attributes together – mobility, capacity and bandwidth. The divide between mobile and fixed in terms of capacity a More...

This brings you a selection from the blogs posted on convergenceconversation.com during this week.  Read on to be informed and stimulated, to agree or disagree; to add your comments -  and to add your own blog if you have something to say?

The USC doesn't work - I tried with #moat
by Lindsey Annison of Fiver to the Home - Fibrevolution

I did my best with my impoverished kit to record what happened last night. A manhunt was going on near to our neighbourhood (my friends were up there buying a combine harvester at lunchtime and had phoned me to ask for directions from Google Maps as the sat nav couldn't find the postcode). More...

July's Convergence Conversation -

Date:                     Thursday 29 July 2010
Time:                     17:30-19:30 - 
                         Registration from 17:00, 
                               Wine and Cheese served before and during the meeting
Venue: More...

The Internet of Things & Augmented Reality

The Internet of Things and Augmented Reality were both rated among the top 5 Internet trends of 2009. So what are they, what are their applications and challenges, and where do opportunities lie in these spaces?

Conversation Starters, factsheet for today's meeting.

The next Convergence Conversation - speakers confirmed

Date:                     Thursday 24 June 2010
Time:                    18:00 - 20:00
                               Registration from 17:30
                               Wine and Cheese
Venue:           & More...

Introduction:
Although the Digital Economy Act has a number of clauses, none is as contentious as the clause around protection of copyright content – the “Anti-Piracy” clauses. Mostly, the act seems to raise more questions than it answers as it seems to have been rushed through without adequate discussion or debate. Here are some of the key issues:

A.      Anti-piracy Clauses
1.       Unaccounted for:

• What will be the impact on public Internet, provided by businesses, councils, educational institutions and internet cafes?
• What about streaming copyright-infringing material, instead of downloading? 
• What about non-AV materials – like downloading scanned books? Where does the publishing industry fit into this structure? What about photographers, artists, etc.?
• Where do the Google Books project and the Guttenberg Project fit under n