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Cuil.com copying PICNIC's search results structure and look and feel
Cuil.com (pronounced Cool) was Business Weeks most successful US startup in 2008
Cuil.com was voted the US's most successful start up for 2008, by Business Week. They claim to have indexed 3 times more pages then Google and 10 times more pages than Microsoft. What is more interesting ... they have the same structure and look and feel to their search results page as PICNIC!!!
When you compare their search results structure and look and feel with PICNIC's it is quite interesting to see the similarities. They have chosen for 2 and 3 columns instead of a vertical list of links. Also they have chosen to show images next to the text links. Which is the same as on PICNIC's search results page. What they are missing which we do have on PICNIC's search results page is a way to filter the keyword results based on a certain criteria. When searching the keyword "picnic" on cuil,com, our site picnicnetwork.org comes up 3rd which is the same at on google.com.
30.12.08, Claire Powell Read more
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2009 top 10 trends related to cross media
PICNIC summarizes the top 10 trends talked about during the PICNIC 08 Cross media week and heard about in the PICNIC network of cross media professionals
PICNIC 08 speakers talked a lot about the trends and developments they are seeing in the world and what this means for (cross media) businesses. PICNIC has now summarized these into the top 10 PICNIC trends, in no particular order.
1. Balance - fun versus important: There was much talk about having reached saturation point in terms of sharing our lives online. Which sharing services are actually adding real value to our personal lives and take less of a chunk out of our valuable time. Most of these sites are fun but not important. 2009 will be a year for services that help people balance life and work, pleasure and profession, off-line and on-line.
2. Transparency and conversation: Some call it Feedback 3.0 or joining the conversation rather than listening quietly. Companies are being required to react not just listen to consumers. 2009 will be a year of transparency by companies and loyalty being driven by interacting/conversing with consumers.
3. Openness: More and more services online are opening up and linking with other online services, for instance in the social networking space. As companies realize they do not own people and their data, the owner of the data is the person themselves and they have a right to decide what is done with their data. 2009 will be a year of consolidation in social networking and microblogging and opening up of platforms, so users can use one login and move their ...
30.12.08, Claire Powell Read more
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PICNIC TV live
PICNIC livestreaming is free and now PICNIC videos are live and free to all
PICNIC has always believed in making its content and inspirational speakers available to everyone, anywhere to view. During PICNIC the livestreams are free and now PICNICTV is live and free to all. PICNIC has chosen to use Vimeo as its platform for delivering PICNICTV as we do not currently have our own video sharing platform and we believe strongly in partnerships to enhance the PICNIC experience.
Check out the inspirational PICNIC speakers and their standing ovations.
The first PICNIC TV videos are live on the site, including:
Charles Leadbeater leading internet thinker, speaks about the conflict between the rising surge of mass collaboration and the attempts to retain top-down control will be one of the defining battles of our time. Charles explors what this means for our culture, the way we work, government, science and business.
Clay Shirky takes a revelatory examination of how the spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them. Our age’s new technologies of social networking are evolving – and causing us to evolve into new groups doing new things in new ways. Clay is a leading Internet thinker, the author of Here Comes Everybody, and a sharp analyst of social media developments.
Itay Talgam is an internationally renowned conductor and founder of the Maestro programme. This Maestro session offers a unique learning experience that explores the magical relationship between conductor, musician and audience to achieve inspiring new insights into leadership, management, and teamwork. No wonder he got a standing ovation.
Each week 3 new videos will be launched on the site and Vimeo channel. Register in the PICNIC network and be the first to be informed.
22.12.08, Claire Powell Read more
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PICNIC at LeWeb 08
PICNIC had the pleasure of attending LeWeb 2008 in Paris hosted by Loïc Le Meur and his wife Geraldine.
This year's LeWeb took place over 2 days in the recently opened "Cent Quatre" situated on the outskirts of Paris in the 19th arrondissement. The location was a large impressive industrial building with a light open atrium in the middle, surrounded by numerous smaller intimate rooms and a theatre.
LeWeb's programme included many on the who's who in the internet industry, including inspirational speakers and challenging moderators, always graciously introduced by Loïc.
Of course PICNIC looked at LeWeb with a critical eye, noting both positives and negatives, and taking away a few learnings to improve PICNIC in upcoming editions. We know how difficult and expensive it is to get the little things right, which also happen to be the things attendees are the first to animately blog about.
PICNIC loved the theme of LeWeb this year "LOVE". Loïc compared being an entrepreneur to falling in love. Having spoken with or listened to a number of start up founders during the 2 days it appears this observation is pretty accurate, as they seemed to have a warm glow about them.
We especially liked the theme due to today's economic climate and most of the speakers did a good job of carrying the theme through their presentations or linking their speech to love in some way. However we would have liked to have heard even more of this through-out the programme.
In our view the most inspiring or convincing speakers were Chris Anderson from TED.com talking about Global IQ, Helen Fisher with her latest research about the drive to love, Suzan Wo from Ohai about Virtual goods, Dr Brian Cox from Manchester University passionately talking about the universe and Marissa Mayer from Google who despite constant prods from Michael Arrington from TechCrunch answered questions calmly and confidently and probably made the audience "love" Google even more.
The PICNIC team had heard so many reports of the amazing food at LeWeb, so by 1pm on the first day we were licking our lips in anticipation of ze french "haute cuisine" . After queuing for ages and pouncing on the service personnel when they passed with new trays of little goodies we devoured the little pots of delights. The food was indeed gorgeous, as you would expect from the...
10.12.08, Claire Powell Read more
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PICNIC Nominated as 1 of the top 10 next places for innovation
This is an annual award given out by WGSN
Innovation is perhaps our most valuable commodity. WGSN announced the next 10 groups and places where innovation is tangible and thought leaders are unshackling imaginations.
Take a look at all the nominees, PICNIC was among them.
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This is what they said about PICNIC: "This annual conference presents the latest trends at the crossroads of media, technology, entertainment, art and science in Europe, North America and Asia. The event presents awards and develops examples of real innovation such as Qurrent - a system that measures and optimises energy flows. Developer Igor Kluin won the €0.5m PICNIC Green Challenge in 2007, for the most innovative carbon-reducing product or service.
WGSN (Worth Global Style Network) is an online subscription service that delivers information, analysis and inspiration to the apparel, style, design and retail industries. WGSN’s forward-looking trend analysis, real-time intelligence updated every hour and 10 year archive of reports and images provide information and inspiration for industries across the world. Their global team of 200 experts design, analyse, photograph and write about style, sourcing, distribution, consumer insight and the business of fashion. www.wgsn.com
21.10.08, Claire Powell Read more
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Enquiring Minds at PICNIC08 Papers
Reflections on PICNIC by the researchers of the Enquiring Minds seminar
The PICNIC organization offered 25 researchers a free pass to the conference and asked Digital Methods Initiative researchers Sabine Niederer and Anne Helmond to organize an informal seminar where everyone could meet and present their research to fellow researchers. At the end of the conference they asked the researchers to write a short essay or paper with reflections on the conference or one of the topics in relation to their research.
Enquiring Minds
Research essays:
Mapping the Physics of the Web by Esther Weltevrede
Cyberculture, Here and Now by Michael Stevenson
Post-Demographics by Erik Borra
The "Long Now" of PICNIC08 by Andrea Fiore
Formalism and the Real -(time) Social Web @ PICNIC08 by Rachel O’Reilly
Social Gaming: the next big thing? by Pieter-Paul Walraven
Feedback society by Taina Bucher
Open innovation at PICNIC2008 by Thieme Hennis
Reflections on PICNIC by Kjen Wilkens
The Future of Virtual Worlds by Rene Glas
A Picnic Sampler by Sonja Kerkhoff
Let’s disconnect at Picnic by Marije Kanis
PICNIC08 Report by Helene Zuili
Games Go Social ...15.10.08, Monique van Dusseldorp Read more
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PICNIC'08 - A Huge Success
Amsterdam-based cross-media festival goes international
The third edition of the PICNIC cross-media event has turned out to be a huge success. A total of 8,535 professionals from the creative and technology industry from more than 100 countries took part in one or more of the sessions at the PICNIC’08 event. A third of the conference delegates were visiting from abroad. Added to which, no less than 3,000 people watched the PICNIC live video stream.
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PICNIC Conference audience (Picture Ferdy Damman)
Visitors could choose from an abundant programme of events including a high-level international conference as well as numerous 'Specials', 'Labs' and other partner events. PICNIC has evolved into a platform that is becoming increasingly interesting for international parties as well. During the event, specials were offered by the European Broadcasting Union, the European Journalism Centre and various other international organisations. Amsterdam now also offers many more events during the PICNIC Week: many companies and organisations regard PICNIC as an excellent opportunity to host their own events 'off-PICNIC'.
PICNIC: focus on talent and entrepreneurship
Over 800 schoolchildren joined in PICNIC Young’s interactive workshops. The PICNIC Academy was attended by 700 students, and the 100 best graduates from media, design and art colleges met up during the ‘Hot100’ Special. PICNIC also invited 25 start-ups to introduce themselves.During the event, new companies contended for various awards. During the Vodafone Mobile Click Awards, 100,000 Euros were awarded to the best start-ups in the mobile industry (Nulaz, TipSpot and MaptheGap). The PICNIC Green Challenge awarded a total of 600,000 Euros to the best green initiatives (Greensulate and Veranda Solar), while the ‘Ding’ Award’ granted a development budget of 50,000 Euros to the best artistic game (´A Split Second´, a joint initiative by the Stedelijk Museum and SubmarineC...
08.10.08, Monique van Dusseldorp Read more
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DIK video channel with PICNIC clips
Waiting for the PICNIC video presentations? We are working hard to get all the files online!
For now, we are delighted to present a short preview, courtesy of DIK. This Dutch start up collects and presents video material found online in an easy to embed video widget. See below!More video channels, including channels for our keynote speakers are available as well. Please note the selected video items come from various sources, and some of them are in Dutch.
06.10.08, Monique van Dusseldorp Read more
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Blogcamp Central and Eastern Europe 2008 invites you to meet emerging Eastern European new media markets
October 17-19th in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Blogcamp Central and Eastern Europe 2008 is gathering over 500 new media entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and enthusiasts on October 17-19th in Kyiv, Ukraine.
PICNIC works with many different partners, and we are happy to introduce our partner Blogcamp to you. First organized in 2007 as the very first barcamp in Eastern Europe, Blogcamp provoked the wave of barcamps in Post-Soviet countries: around 15 barcamps this year. Poland, which had been reached by barcamps earlier, and where barcamp movement developed independently from the Eastern Europe, also has now up to 10 barcamps in every regional centre of the country.
Barcamp success in Central and Eastern Europe couldn't have been possible without rich soil of emerging new media entrepreneurship. Ukraine, the host country of Blogcamp CEE shows about 100% growth of online advertising market for two last years, with still relatively low entrance barrier and high growth potential.
Blogcamp CEE 2008, the leading Central and Eastern European event on the new media and online start-ups postulates as one of its objectives to create a friendly opportunity for everyone to explore CEE internet markets and make useful connections. Up to 80 sessions delivered in 5 parallel agenda tracks must be the most exhaustive description of Eastern European online scene.Investor Day which is a special event of Blogcamp is a start-up contest judged by local venture community as well as Western European and North American VCs.
Most Europeans do not need a visa to visit Kyiv, Ukraine where Blogcamp will take place....
03.10.08, Monique van Dusseldorp Read more
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Connections and Creativity: Where are the New Frontiers?
by Madanmohan Rao, PICNIC 2008 Ambassador and Editor of “The Knowledge Management Chronicles”
In the first couple of days, we looked at a range of frameworks and case studies of how new media are helping creative communities, and the last day of PICNIC had a dazzling array of discussions and debates on future trends and fads in this field.
Here is my pick of the top ten trends to watch for in the coming years -- email me at madan@techsparks.com with your thoughts and responses!
1. The Rise of “Professional” Social Networking
Popular models of Web 2.0-based social networking on consumer or citizen sites will extend to professional communities within and outside organisations as well. Witness the rise of OpenAd, SellABand and Blurb, which are more than just communities of interest in advertising, music or publishing – but well-developed networks of professional services.
2. Citizen media brings political power to the people
From the US to the far reaches of Africa (as the one-day track “Surprising Africa” so powerfully revealed), citizens are claiming control over the narrative affecting their lives. This is being amplified by traditional media and diaspora populations, and giving power to the people – though much more struggle will be needed to fully transform dictatorial regimes or unilateralist powers.
3. Mobile communication is opening up unprecedented value chains
From the use of airtime as currency in developing countries to the growing demand for “snack media” in mature economies, mobile communication is both extending the shelf-life of existing content to creating entirely new forms of economic transaction for stakeholder communities.
4. “Everything now for me”
The combination of universal search, immediate access, and personalised communities is giving rise to a culture where people expect to be able to search the entire “info-cloud” and immediately connect to ...
29.09.08, Claire Powell Read more
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