Micromedia futures or the emperor’s new clothes?

Disposable, atomised media is all the rage and I’m as guilty as the next person of wallowing in it.

Web 2.0 and all its trimmings is no exception to this trend, in fact it glories in all things transient.* But what does it add up to? This question is an itch worth scratching, so sometimes we revisit particular events after their initial outing.

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Is digital confidence set to plunge?

2857718837_cd74d07dd6_m.jpg Freshly back from Digital Mission to Web 2.0 Expo in NYC, the members of the team who went are still battling the twin evils of jetlag and mountainous inboxes.

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Digital Pulse for August 2008

Digital Pulse indices
Digital Pulse: 
121.5
Current Index: 
129.2
6 month Index: 
120.4
Employment Index: 
135.2
Move Jobs Index: 
128.2
Salary Index: 
94.4
Current Confidence Index: 
119.6
Future Confidence Index: 
124.3
Two month’s of gains in confidence were wiped out with August’s Digital Pulse index falling 2.33% to 121.5, virtually the same level as May’s result. The index of market conditions in six months time took the biggest hit with a 6.33% drop in the last month with only small drops in confidence around employment. Taking into account that these results pre-date the troubles on Wall Street and in London, and the Digital Pulse index may take somewhat of a battering in September.

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Want cash to exhibit at overseas tradeshows?

368281633_4cb5e6e83c_m.jpgThought that might get your attention.

Please leave a comment with any overseas tradeshows your company would like to exhibit at., or that you think should be included on the list. This assistance only applies to exhibiting in the Expo part of tradeshows or conferences, it doesn't include conference passes.

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And they're back - Digital Mission

It is hard for me to believe, but the last day of the Digital Mission to NYC has arrived and the 21 digital companies represented are all back home.

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Digital Mission - Separated at Birth?

Some great keynotes here at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York, both yesterday and today. Gary Vaynerchuk was a firm favourite, at least from confering with the peeps from the digital mission companies (full list here by the way). We'll get to see Gary again at Wine 2.0 tonight.

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Search and location up a tree. K.I.S.S.I.N.G.

Every year it's the same moldy old format recycled round the media hype circuit. It's the year of the mobile web, of mashups. It's the end of print media, the death of the gatekeeper. Revolutions are ushering themselves in left, right and centre, and whoosh! Life as we know it will be forever unutterably changed... yeah!

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