Carbon co-founder Ian Pringle presented a seminar on Web 2.0 and the SME last night, exploring potential of the new web for small businesses. Ian did an amazing job of keeping the 30-strong audience engaged for almost an hour and followed with a lively Q&A session.
You can find his slides and references here; also a handful of photos and a brief video excerpt.
We met a few interesting people, including John Lambert, an IP lawyer from Huddersfield, Poulters‘ head of Digital, Ross Hewitt and Everythingability‘s Tom Smith.
Incidentally, looks like there was a great turnout for the first GeekUp Leeds too 🙂
Not only was I Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year in 2006, but I’ll be adorning the cover of the next issue of Wired – a special edition on my startup Carbon and some of our projects.
If you’d like to also be featured in Wired,click here…
I was invited to a workshop on Teaching New Media at my old university, Leeds Met, yesterday morning. Ben asked me to present a fifteen-minute talk on Carbon and what we’re doing to help regional startup culture; my presentation is below…
I’d come prepared to talk about how industry and academia could collaborate on startup culture in the region, but the group, more interestingly, focussed on the changing nature of knowledge and teaching in a connected world and how participatory culture, open source and Web 2.0 were impacting higher education.
We didn’t reach any conclusions, but for me, the most striking observation was the externalisation of the trends in question…that Web 2.0 and open source were taking place elsewhere and causing academia to adapt. I found this a little disappointing and hope Leeds Met (and others in attendance) will consider how they can define and lead the
patterns and trends that come to define an era. I would love for Leeds Met to become the Stanford, MIT or Berkeley of the region. Ben’s a graduate of MIT Media Lab and bringing a lot of that school’s innovaive culture to Leeds Met…I’m hoping Carbon can contribute to that and we’re hoping to collaborate on a few things very soon.
The group did consist of a few interesting individuals working on projects
as elaborate as Augmented Reality and visualising eye-tracking data from
movies…I should make some introductions to Charles and Stamen 🙂
I’m really liking Slideshare’s embedding feature…kinda like a YouTube for presentations. The web-based presenter space is starting to hot up, so I hope Rich still plans to work on presentto.us 🙂
…for the next week, I’m in San Francisco, at the edge of the world, in a valley made of silicon teeming with some of humanity’s smartest people – my sixth trip to the city…it’s always exhilarating.
Carbon co-founder Ian Pringle presented a seminar on
