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Power lunch

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A quick update as a let my Haddock and chips digest, I had 6 eyes watching my every move while I ate it. All of the eyes were attached to cats.

Had a very productive power lunch today with Matt at the Lyric. We were joined by a 3 month old baby who wasted some of meeting by smiling and distracting us. The idea for mobile app to encourage local shopping hung by a thread, saved by some early morning inspiration, more news on that as soon as it’s fit to print. Matt’s work on the video building blocks project is taking shape nicely and has a nice political ‘of the moment’ angle to it. It was the first time I have literally had to wipe poo from someones’ arse after a meeting.

Next step is a half day of locking ourselves in a room to thrash out more detail. Oh and we need to find time to give some love to a new multiplatform game format.

Business plan 1a

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Planning projects with my main man Matt Burton McFaul. The three main contenders are:

1) mobile app to encourage local shopping – in keeping with the Plugging the leaks approach of the NEF and part of the Transition Towns movement.
2) multi-platform game format, very social and plays on group dynamics.
3) digital story built from blocks we gather. We’re developing this as part of workshop that we’ll take on the road.

Oh and here’s some nice words I wrote down about our overall plan;

Enjoyable
rewarding
useful
social shared
socially useful
healing edge (beyond the cutting edge is the bleeding edge, beyond that the healing edge)
work with good people
co-operative model?
USP that’s USB compatible

Giving our information away

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Are you tired of only being able to express your opinion on entire articles
on the interweb?

Have you been gagging to share your thoughts on individual words within a
sentence and automatically spray these out to the world?

Your life can now be complete thanks to blippr

This is how a link appears next on the word Android
in a Mashable article.

Blippr smiley link

Blippr smiley link

Blippr could be just a useless widget for geeky, opinionated monkeys. I’m
pretty sure the data that the lists of your likes and dislikes of different
media that Blippr hope to collect and them having a view of how these
intersect with your peers could be a useful to you, as a way to filter and
find interesting stuff.

Blippr link rolled over

Blippr link rolled over

I’m equally convinced this data is incredibly valuable to media owners and
advertisers. Should we be receiving micro-payments for each review,
expression of preference with greater payments for allowing access to the
intersection of our personal information and our friends? Store loyalty card
schemes (Nectar cards in UK, etc) gives some small payback for your allowing
them to collect personal information on your shopping habits and
preferences. So I’m not sure why are we so eager to give this away online?

I came across this article about loyalty cards and how they don’t save you money, but do infringe your privacy. 5 Nectar points if you read this.