Ryan MacMillan

e-Commerce has greatly affected our behaviour as consumers. Last Christmas, Amazon saved me from the horrors of the last-minute Oxford Street reenactment of the Black Hole of Calcutta in which I traditionally play a role (third Sweating Man in Hennes Queue from stage-left). I ordered all my presents on the site and they appeared, gift-wrapped [...]

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I had the pleasure of hearing Charles Leadbeater speak about the basis of his new book, We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity, at the British Library last night. Now, the title of the event was “We Think: Will the Web be Good for Us?” which has a foreboding ring to it, doesn’t it?
Charles suggested [...]

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The low level of online political engagement in the UK cannot solely be the responsibility of UK politicians, disappointing though their attempts to climb aboard the fast-moving social media train may have been.
(Consultants are allowed to use phrases like “fast-moving social media train” once before being fired - Ed.)
It’s certainly more complicated than that.  For all that [...]

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Whilst Maggie and Dan have been extolling the virtues of the new breed of online video headed by Hulu, 4OD, BBC iPlayer et al I’ve been back to thinking about where online video all began: YouTube.
It appears as though this past week heralded the announcement of the winners for the second annual YouTube Awards. You [...]

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So, last week, Maggie posted about Hulu, the ad-supported streaming TV/Movie website engendered by NBCUniversal and Newscorp, going live from Beta testing.
And I was like ‘meh, whatevs’. Indeed, I believe my exact words were:
Being sans-TV myself at the moment, I’m watching most of my fave shows online at the networks’ own sites; how does Hulu [...]

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