See you at Telecoms Multi-Platform Content and Delivery Forum?

Apologies for the flurry of posts. Been having a bit of a late spring clean of the blog's left-hand column. Now the 'resources' section isn't listed in full down the left, it's available from the link under the 'resources' title. I've done similar with the 'ones to watch'.
Guess I'm finally waking up to the fact that the internet isn't made of paper...

I'm speaking at Telecoms Multi-Platform Content and Delivery Forum in London tomorrow (June 12, 2008). Snappy title huh? If you happen to be there, please do say hi.

This weekend, New York.

Here are the slides for TMPC&DF (phew...)

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Ones to watch

• Admob
• Adjustables: Targeted Ad serving on video
• Big Think
• BoxedUp - Del.icio.us for products
• Brickfish - engagement via User Gen ads
• Cambrian House (crowd-sourcing ideas into money)
• Current TV
• Cyworld (US version of Korean Myspace killer)
• EI42: affiliate your friends
• Elastic Lab crowd-sourced video projects.
• Fanista; friend-recommended purchasing
• Flixya: Social media - shares all revenue with co-creator
• Flektor - digital creation made easy
• Google's socialstream project
• The Gorb
• Habbo Hotel (now a global phenomenon)
• JotSpot (now google owned)
• Kyte: mobsoc with mobtv broadcast
• Lilgrams: Twitter for toddlers parents...
• Live News Cameras (fox project)
  
• Mechanical Turk (crowd-sourcing HiT tasks)
• Meshopolis - free long-tail e-commerce
• Mippin (mobilizes content)
• Nokia Ad Service & Gateway
• Ohmynews (English)
• Open ID
• Orkut - Social Networking site with 32m members
• Orb Networks
• Predictify (uses crowds to predict outcomes)
  
• Qode
• ScanScout (incontext ads for video)
• Suggestion Box
• Viddler - rich video community
• Seedcamp - start-ups galore
• Seesmic
• Shoppero - Long-tail reaching prosumer site
• Spigit: The Game of start-ups
• Swarm Teams
• Tipped.co.uk
• Trutap
• Twine
• Twitter
• Twhirl
• Wink.com (people search)
• Wunderloop: Behaviour targeting
• Wishood.com; ultimate wishlists
• Xtract
• Yahoo mobile ads service
• Zenzui - personalised mobile navigation

Your suggestions welcome - as is your assistance in weeding out ones that are no longer worth watching... please post in comments below.

Ones to watch: Orkut.com 32M+ users

I added Orkut.com to the 'ones to watch' (See left hand navigation) a couple of days back - but thought it worth drawing attention to here.
My apologies if you are one of the 32M plus people already connected through Orkut.com. Yes, that's right 32M. I hadn't even heard of it until early this week.
I only checked it out because I was having a look at the dominance social networking sites are having in Alexa.com's top 10 global sites. Orkut was a new one on me in at No10!
3 out of 10 are English language social-networking sites.
Orkut is owned by google. How long that has been the case (the site has been around since early 2004) I'm afraid I don't know. What makes this one to watch is how and when they intend to monetise it. I can't spot a single ad on it! Not even a google one.

Remember the google motto: "You can't milk a calf..."

Why hadn't I heard of one of the top 10 biggest sites in the world? Almost certainly because it's Brazillian based - and here's where there is potential for this to grow further. About 65% of users are Brazillian, 15% American, 11% Indian. More Iranians use the site than UK citizens (0.7% of users were from the UK on Nov 15, 2006). If the European figures grow now that Europeans (like me) are starting to discover it, how big could this get?