startups

How to close an online service gracefully Members Public

[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/11/4de67896376bbfaa8b3e4adbe6850c31.jpg] The problem with today’s startup-centric web culture is that increasing numbers of services fail or get sold, and they close down, taking their content with them. DailyBooth [http://dailybooth.com/dashboard] was a hot site, particualry

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
content

Tech City's new Shields Members Public

Interesting interview with Joanna Shields [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/9622748/Joanna-Shields-The-first-lady-of-Londons-Tech-City.html#] , ex-Facebook and now chief executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation: > “London has access to government through Westminster, you have the creative industries [and] you have the financial sector. You almost have

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
london

Le Web: Kevin Rose, Digging Painful Experience Members Public

[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/roselane.jpg] Leo Laporte [http://friendfeed.com/leolaporte], Sarah Lane [http://www.sarahlane.com/] and Kevin Rose [http://kevinrose.com] are having something of a love-in on stage, reminiscing about their early days on TechTV [http://www.zdtv.com/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digg

Kevin Systrom on Instagram's critical pivot to photos (#futureofmobile ) Members Public

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom talked at the Future of Mobile conference in London - here are my notes.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
apps

Science journalism startups? Members Public

Some [tips for reluctantly entrepreneurial science journalists](http://scidevnet.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/tips-for-the-reluctantly-entrepreneurial-science-journalist/). It’s officially weird being quoted speaking at [a conference](http://www.wcsj2011.org/) you weren’t actually at.There’s a story here, and it’s not very flattering about me, but I’ll

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
entrepeneurship

How to take Innovation cash and waste it in five easy steps! Members Public

![Sad n Scary](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com//Sad 'n' Scary.jpg "Sad 'n' Scary.jpg") [Photo by Orin Zebest on Flickr, and used under a Creative Commons licence] [http://flic.kr/p/2ZmAZ] It’s Carnival time. But I’m not really in a

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
funding

LeWeb: Startup Competition Finalists Members Public

Liveblogging: this post will be updated through the course of the session, and will be prone to error, omission and misunderstanding. You are warned… 😉 **1. **Paper.li [http://paper.li/] I suspect most people reading this are familiar with this service. It turns links from your Twitter and Facebook accounts

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
innovation

Journalism From the Ashes? Members Public

> In March, Hearstclosed the 146-year-old Post-Intelligencer [http://www.seattlepi.com/business/403793_piclosure17.html]newspaper and dumped 140 of us onto the street in the depths of the recession. [What happened next?](http://safetynetseattle.blogspot.com/2009/11/seven-months-later-whats-happened-to.html) For the majority, the story is pretty depressing. The

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Journalism