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We caught up with NMK too late to catch their excellent summer event called Content 2.0 but I’d spent many an absorbed tube journey listening to the podcasts of their talks. We’d been looking for another chance to join in and found out about their latest Beer & Innovation talk covering Aggregators and Upsetters. The venue was great, downstairs in the Albannach just off Trafalgar Square, and the line-up intriguing and the audience very well connected. These Beers and Innovation sessions are a mini-conference in a bar with a panel of 3 speakers given 5 minutes to talk, followed by a lively q and a session. Last night we heard from Paul Pod from the about-to-be-launched Tape It Off The Internet give us the low-down on why he created his web site. His refreshing down to earth approach about the issues of content aggregation (TV guides and show downloads) and the challenges of making his wbe site pay were delivered in his unique style. Richard Anson from the review web site Revoo showed the business way through this with a nice solid model of capturing and selling independent customer product reviews to online stores such as Currys and Dixons. Although he seemed to be going a little against the web 2.0 grain by making it a closed service and charging to aggregate these reviews to big business.

Harder to place and more opiniated and controversial was star blogger Umair Haque who tried to give us the low down on where the industry was going and why web 2.0 sites such as friendster failed so miserably. We met up with some great people from all parts of the industry, and one of the common topics of conversation seemed to be people wondering why all the online innovation is happening in the US and not here, some say size of audience, some say it’s down to the ease of V.C. funding, and by the end of the talks I was wondering if it was just an English personality trait: no-one seemed capable of agreeing with anyone else!

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