Tom Coates
Tom Coates works for Yahoo Brickhouse where he develops new concepts in social software, future media and the web of data. He focuses on the shape of the web to come and how to make things that thrive as part of it. He’s worked for many of the UK’s most prominent web companies including Time Out, UpMyStreet and the BBC where he ran a small near-term R&D team for the BBC exploring media navigation, annotation and distribution. A regular speaker at conferences including ETech, XTech, IASummit and The Future of Web Apps, Tom also writes extensively at plasticbag.org as well as running the experimental online community barbelith.com.
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Blog Posts
links for 2008-04-17
--Jeremy Paxman's position on 'User Generated Content' should now be clear And truth be told, he's right. The last few years have seen a decen...
links for 2008-04-16
--Young Marshall's Django Fire Eagle package... "The django_fireeagle package contains code to handle the Fire Eagle authorisation process wit...
links for 2008-04-15
--Ashley Highfield is to leave the BBC. It won't be a shock if I tell you that I think it's about time. The only problem is who follows him. T...
links for 2008-04-14
--Delightful news: Homosexual Geneticists have discovered the cause of Christianity Pretty funny as politically charged satires on the horrors...
links for 2008-04-13
--The lovely guys at Skyhook have announced that they're going to be opening up their mobile clients to update Fire Eagle - which rocks! Those...
links for 2008-04-12
--Nice little piece on swarming structures that the author thinks could be an angle for future architectures I'm not sure I like the sense of ...
links for 2008-04-10
--Get your weighted companion cubes here! I'm sure Cal was scratching on the front door of the Steam offices (or whatever they use instead - o...
links for 2008-04-09
--Clay on the Colbert Report?! I think my head just imploded with the sheer amount of squee going on right there... Very exciting - impressed ...
links for 2008-04-07
--BBC News did a redesign a couple of days ago—and you know—it's fine, but I wonder... Design patterns are now established. Probably people ne...
links for 2008-03-25
--I've ordered myself a Flip video in expectation of interesting websites to come Had a play with one for the first time the other day down th...
Bookmarks:
Bizarro version of Life on Mars remade for America
It looks very, very, very different.
Plazes has added support for Fire Eagle!
And this blog post explains all the value that they're getting out of being involved. Very excited to have them with us!
There's a fun argument in progress over at 37 signals about whether urgency and long working hours are ever a good thing.
People always generalise from their own experience. You get several incredibly bright, diligent self-starting friends in a room and—shock—they're naturally productive and find their own equilibrium.
Jeremy Paxman's position on 'User Generated Content' should now be clear
And truth be told, he's right. The last few years have seen a decent number of fairly feeble attempts to harness the wisdom of the crowds that do indeed end up schlocky and amateurish. People will get better at it in time.
Who's in the frame for Highfield's job at the BBC?
A good list of some of the prime candidates for the job. My favourites would be Tony Ageh and Simon Nelson, both of whom I've been honoured to work with and who I have significant respect for.
Best picture on the Internets secretly plays out the epic battles of large multi-national web companies...
The lightning represents innovation.
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Comments
Hi Tom...greetings from an ex-Yahoo and now Berliner!
instantly fan'd
I'm hoping I get a chance to see you speak. I'd love to get a chance to meet you.