News
Two Worlds Expands: an Encore
September 17, 2008
More good news: we're delighted to welcome Jonathan Marshall to Two Worlds as director of Interactive TV and development services. We've been working with Jonathan since March, combining his experience as a leading pioneer of interactive TV services together with our existing Social media, strategy and architecture skills to create our new SlipStream Social TV/media platform. Jonathan's skills and experience greatly extend our ability to create and deliver truly ubiquitous media tools and services that combine content and community across the broadcast, online and mobile worlds.
Two Worlds Expands
August 01, 2008
All things in time change, and Two Worlds is no exception: After eight years as the vehicle for my own consultancy, it is no longer a "me" but an "us": I'm very pleased to welcome Jon Jardine to Two Worlds, as lead developer and designer. With many years experience as computer scientist, developer and interface designer, and after a stint as owner of one of the Highland's finest hostelries, Jon and his partner are now based in Berlin. So, in a single action, Two Worlds has expanded both numerically and geographically.
We now have some major, and majorly innovative, developments under way, in both business and technology. Watch this space – there's more to come.
A Time for Change
July 07, 2008
Two years ago, my partner and I took a deep breath and moved ourselves and our respective businesses to the centre of Scotland's Southern Highlands – to the heart of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. We're very pleased to say that, despite the difficulties inherent in being small, entrepreneurial businesses in a society as hidebound, bureaucratic and institutionally cynical as the UK, it all seems to be turning out very well: we're living in inspirational surroundings, in a friendly and welcoming community and we've discovered that this area seems to be a magnet for others of similar background and disposition to ourselves.
And that's now triggered another change: since 1999, Two Worlds has been my personal vehicle, and both the company and this web site have reflected that. The latter has been a news site, intermittent blog, occasional soapbox and generally reflective of my personal interests and opinions. Two Worlds is now expanding, enhancing our strategic consultancy and product and service design with the capability to prototype and develop the ideas that emerge from these exercises. More soon.
Previous Articles:
- Two Worlds Expands: an Encore: Jonathan Marshall joins Two Worlds as director of Interactive TV and Development Services.
- Two Worlds Expands: Jon Jardine joins Two Worlds, as lead developer and designer.
- Sir Arthur C Clarke. 12 December 1917-19 March 2008: My personal memories of Sir Arthur C Clarke and on the great influence he's been on my life and career.
- BBC Innovation Labs 2008: The Outcome: Following our participation in the 2008 BBC Innovation Labs, Two Worlds has been commissioned by BBC R&D to develop the first prototype of our Social TV platform.
- The Power of Spontaneity…: Two Worlds is one of the winner's of the 2008 BBC Innovation Labs competition for new technologies and services.
- Hype, Reality and Expectation: A short history of the Hype Cycle as a model for understanding the development of new technologies and services, with a few acerbic asides.
- The Fifth Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture: "Wildlife Management in East Africa – Is There a Future?" by Dr Richard Leakey Date: Thursday 15 March 2007, 7:30pm Venue: The Royal Geographic Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR Price: £12.00 - You'll find more information and...
- First Impressions: Apple iPhone: Apple announces the iPhone, so here's my take, a brief summary of what's known and some interspersed musings.
- Northern Lights: Two Worlds moves to Scotland, in pursuit of life, space and connectivity.
- Russian Leapfrog: Two Worlds is providing strategic, technical and creative support to the Cascade/BUR Media Group to create digital distribution services in Russia.
- BlueGlobe: Making a Difference: The first public presence of BlueGlobe: Engagement, Education and Enabling people and organisations to act on Climate Change.
- The Fourth Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture: The Fourth Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture: Is the Human an Endangered Species? by Professor Robert Winston. 23rd March 2006, at the Royal Geographic Society, London SW7.
- Bridging the Divide: Connected Communities and the Enabled Society: Information about the ULS Seminar on Physical and Virtual Identity and Community, 26th January 2006.
- Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Apple switches to Intel. World stops on Axis. Panic in the streets. A Mac veterans musings on the change, the history and the heresies.
- Creative Commons reaches the UK: Report and thoughts from the launch of the Creative Commons licenses for England and Wales.
- Now Ain't That Something…: The 1984 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game wins 2005 Interactive BAFTA.
- Last Chance to See… …Just a bit more: The Third Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture, 10th March 2005, The Royal Institution, London. Mark Carwardine talking about “Last Chance to See… …Just a Little Bit More”.
- BAFTA Interactive Awards 2005: Announcement of the 2005 BAFTA Interactive Awards.
- Two Worlds Web: This is the new Two Worlds web site. The old one was never more than a placeholder.