Seedcamp: The Movie

A nice little promo for Seedcamp including a few glimpses of School of Everything team members.

Free Martin Lukes!

For years now the Martin Lukes column in the FT has been the best regular analysis of corporate life. Things have taken a dramatic turn today though. Martin — I’m 120 per cent with you.

Incredible use of Wiimote

We’re so going to try this out at Everything HQ. Hardware hacking at its best.

Thanks Rob!

In Search of Mr Average

My friend Tim Wardle has his first feature documentary on Channel Four tomorrow evening (7.35pm) — it’s been getting great reviews so do watch if you get a chance.

How to Save the World on a Tuesday evening

I’ll be hosting an event at the Dana Centre in London next Tuesday evening (7–8.30pm, 20th November) with Johan Tell, author of 100 Ways to Save the World. Come along if you’d like to talk about tips for living more sustainably and some of the bigger political issues.

I’m on the iPhone

I cracked and bought one this morning. I could try justifying the decision by saying it was because my ancient iPod has worn out, or that I was getting frustrated by trying to use email on my Nokia, but really, it was sheer Apple-induced gadget lust and I simply gave in to temptation.

Quite funny seeing the interaction between Apple and Carphone Warehouse on this. CPW aren’t exactly known for their seamless customer service and I did have to be quite forceful to convince them to give me one. The problem was that they weren’t letting O2 customers out of their contracts to get iPhones. Then there was obviously some edict from on high sent round their call centres on Saturday afternoon. They had me sorted out within a few minutes of complaining.

Set up: From opening the box to having everything synched up was a very easy and pleasurable experience.
The way Google Maps work: On wifi anyway the directions thing is brilliant — not sure how fast it will be on O2.
Multitouch: just incredible. It becomes second nature within seconds and then you realise quite how advanced the technology must be.

As lots of people have said, it’s not perfect, but it is the first device I’ve had in a while that really does fit Arthur C Clark’s maxim. I love it.

How the markets really work

[via the ever-fascinating Marc Andreesson]

Wired on top form

The current issue of Wired is a good one. My pick is probably Daniel Pink’s Manga feature — but I might be biased because it focuses on the effect that pro-ams are having on the industry.