It was a full house in the lecture theatre at Leeds College of Art & Design last night, for June’s Creative Networks get-together. There was a nice pre-talk vibe due to it coinciding with the end-of-year shows for the various…
Congratulations to Mantic Point – their StreamThru service has won an industry award! StreamThru won the ‘Best Mobile Technology’ category in the TravelMole Web Awards 2009. Other winners included P&O Cruises, BMI, Warner Leisure and Yorkshire Tourist Board. Travel Mole…
There’s been quite a buzz over the last few days around Facebook introducing vanity URLs, but is it really what users need? Of course, the word ‘vanity’ denotes that it doesn’t meet a user ‘need’ and is an added bonus,…
BarCamp Leeds 09 was another important example of the vibrant creative scene in the North. I attended on Saturday, and while the idyllic weather probably didn’t do a great deal for attendance figures (despite being a sell-out, there were numerous…
There has been a huge amount of creative activity in Leeds this last week. The LSx09 Leeds Web Festival, curated by local technology/design advocate Imran Ali was underway and I managed to get myself to a couple of events. This…