Aiim Enterprise 2.0 Survey

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Thomas Purves

Dan writes:

Thomas – twitter led me here a few days ago, and occurred to me that you (and your readers) might lend a hand in our Enterprise 2.0 survey, freshly launched earlier today!

Nearly 100 responses so far, but we can always use more data. Survey closes Friday January 18th, 2008. 67 questions, roughly 30 minutes, it examines the state of understanding and adoption in technology, topics such as agile development, lean thinking and knowledge management, and more.

It’s a good survey, I’m as curious as they are to see the results

Link

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GameonFinance gets cooking

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Thomas Purves

Wow so since I last looked, there’s been an impressive lineup brewing for Toronto’s own GameOn Finance conference (Jan 17/18). It’s no secret that gaming is one of the media industry to be in these days. Latest list of presenters

    Eric Zimmerman, Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer – Gamelab
    Richard Iwaniuk, Director of Business Development – BioWare
    Vikas Gupta, CEO & President, TransGaming Technologies
    Margaret Wallace, Co-Founder and CEO, Rebel Monkey
    Randy Thompson, General Partner, Argon Venture Partners
    Scott Steinberg, Managing Partner, digitaltrends.com
    Bob Jacob, Founder & Partner, ISM
    Asi Burak, Co-Founder & CCO – ImpactGames
    Tim Gatland, Chief Executive, Fund4Games
    Robert Shoniker, Principal – Courage Capital
    Jonathan Adair, COO – Distil Interactive
    David Bazak, Sr Manager, Media and Entertainment, RBC
    Jamie Leece, President & CEO – Rainmaker Games
    Phil Giroux, VP Business Development – Magmic Games
    Wojtek Kawczynski, SVP & GM – Silverbirch Studios
    Nathon Gunn, CEO, Bitcasters
    Jason Della Rocca, Executive Director – IGDA

Moar info, signup and official website etc.: http://www.gameonfinance.com/
One of the conference’s good looking organizers tells me that remaining early bird tickets available until Jan 9th at the latest. Also there is a substantially discounted “startup” pass for… startups if that’s you.

UPDATE: If you’d like to get in to the conference for free, GameOn is recruiting a few volunteers to help out with the show. Volunteering for one 5 hr stint during the event will earn you a free ticket and a chance to interact directly with some of the organizers, speakers etc. Sounds like a good deal. Details on the website.

Also in startup Finance in January don’t forget: Founders & Funders Dinner Jan 21, tickets are $75

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Sony drops DRM

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Thomas Purves

Like the Pope himself deciding, after all this time, to try on a rubber, and not days since I suggested it wouldn’t happen until the last blue ray was prised out of their cold dead hands, Sony (Sony!) BGM has announce plans to drop DRM* on their music.

OMG. hallelujah.

And just in time as Canadian policy makers take a breather on considering Canadian copyright policy after we just narrowly avoided enshrining DRM into law. That would be redundant wouldn’t it. Thank you Mr Geist.

*Glossary: Dreaded rights management is a collection of expensive, complicated and ill-conceived technologies originally conceived for the sole purpose of actually preventing users from using the very same media and gadgets and operating systems** that vendors and studios were trying to sell them. NOT-dreaded-rights-management represents the newly emerging industry standard that heralding a return to common sense, and business-model intelligence, and maybe -just maybe- the belated salvation of Big Media

**read as: MS Vista, the OS that DRM built. oops.

Previously on DRM on this blog

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