Pete Lawrence introduces Pic-Nic Village at TEDx Cardiff Pic-Nic Village founder Pete Lawrence was a speaker at last Saturday’s TEDx event in Cardiff. In front of an enthusiastic crowd at The Millennium Centre. Pete, making the most of a large and comfortable leather chair originally placed on stage as a prop to tell his story, [...]
Read moreUpdate on Pic-Nic Village Public Offering The crowd funding initiative undertaken by Pic-Nic Village earlier this year to raise finances for the development of a new type of social network has been closed without reaching its ambitious target of £750,000. Despite a positive response to our proposition for an advertiser free and privacy aware social [...]
Read moreIt would be fair to say that 2010 was the year that social networking became established as a key part of people’s lives. 2011 will herald an evolution of social networking. Here are 10 predictions for social networking in the new year from Pete Lawrence, founder of Pic-Nic Village, an advertiser free, privacy aware social network for creatives.
Read moreThe stakeholders in this new age of social networking 2.0 will be doing more than playing at social networking, they will be taking a fundamental role in the evolution of 21st century art, which will be all about connections through culture and community.
Read moreI have been a fan of Apple’s products for nearly two decades and love the ease of use and integration. With Ping! it all looks so transparently exploitative, not mention clumsy, corporate and not actually very social at all.
Read moreWealth maximisation for the few, a notion that sits at the heart of capitalist philosophy is now being supplanted by a move towards communities and initiatives which aim to create wealth for all. In essence, we’re at the beginning of a huge and exciting move towards a more radical, ethical and socially inclusive business model which looks likely to include more crowdfunding and community ownership and control initiatives.
Read moreA notion that sits at the heart of capitalist philosophy is now being supplanted by a move towards communities and initiatives which aim to create wealth for all. In essence, we’re at the beginning of a huge and exciting move towards a more radical, ethical and socially inclusive business model
Read moreAs Jarvis says, it’s about the tipping point – when is big “big enough” and in some ways, this is the central thread that Big Chillers have addressed year after year.
Read moreLast week I talked about abbreviations. This week I’m going to talk about pseudonyms. With the recent kerfuffle about the initiative promoted by Blizzard (publishers of popular online game World Of Warcraft) to get their members to use their real names, and the subsequent rescinding of the plea, it brought into sharp focus the whole debate about online personas, privacy and the sharing of ones’ interests and activities to online communities.
Read moreThe online movers and shakers’ cosy up to Government over the past week reminded me of Blair’s ‘Cool Britannia’. However, given the turmoil of the music business at the moment, it’s not hard to reach the conclusion that social networks and online community building is the not only the new rock’n'roll but where the real action is.
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