Interview with Robert Scoble
And despite what I said earlier, Scoble has posted the interview we did at his house in San Francisco. And yes it was after a very long night!
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Article in TV Week
Am always a tad wary of linking to self-serving press coverage, and there's been quite a lot of it lately, but this one's pretty comprehensive and accurate, so what the hay...
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Back in London, next up the party
Our last couple of days in the States were hectic but fruitful. We zipped down to LA to meet our PR people and then out to a place called Half Moon Bay to do an interview at Robert Scoble's house. Driving the coast road back to San Fran in the fog was quite the experience.
Back in London now and just two weeks to our official launch party! If you fancy an invite, drop us an e-mail to reception@worldtv.com. It will be in West London, there'll be DJ's, drinks and most of all... fun times...
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The WorldTV Promo Video
Here's the promo video that was played at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco to announce the launch of WorldTV.
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WorldTV is live!
Am very pleased to announce that WorldTV is now open as a public beta. Ashley and I launched it from our hotel room in San Francisco at 1 minute past midnight local time.
There's still a few things that we would like to have polished more, but as is always the case these things are never really finished.
We have a jam packed day tomorrow at the NewTeeVee live conference. We're both pretty exhausted so it's time to get some zzzz's.
6am start...
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Ashley and I hit New York, 2 days until launch
My (long suffering) partner and I arrived in New York last night for a series of interviews prior to the launch of WorldTV on Wednesday. Hooragh!
Since my blog posts have been a little thin on the ground lately I figured I'd make up for it with some coverage of our 'big US trip'. It certainly got off to an interesting start...
Liz Hurley and Hugh Grant were both on our flight to New York and we were curiously thrown together with them on 3 separate occasions during the 'get to the plane' process. The next day I'm reading about their journey in the newspaper. I'm convinced Liz Hurley smiled at me on the gangway but Ashley says it was in my dreams. He's probably right. I think he's just jealous because the only person smiling at him was... Preston from Big Brother!
Today we had an interview at Reuters which was pretty cool, and some filming to do for a promo video we're making. The video will be shown at NewTeeVee live on Wednesday and may be used for other bits and pieces. It was all put together in 'no time at all' after the folks at GigaOM suggested the idea a week ago. The video is pretty raw but kind of fun - we got to smash up an old TV and I smuggled a camera into Wimbledon (although unfortunately that didn't make it into the final cut). As I speak, Steve, our fearless (and exhausted) editor is uploading the final version onto our FTP site, complete with the latest footage we shot just hours earlier in Times Square, which we DSL'd back to London.
The rest of the day has been rather forgettable, if only for all the things that have been going pear-shaped. Two of our main servers both died today, including our development server and a production server. The reason for the SNAFU isn't clear, which is always a worry, although everything is back up and running again. We also had a major issue with one of our source sites changing their server configuration, leading to a complete rebuild of how we gather thumbnail images from that site. Our developers had a really tough time of it today.
We've got an early start tomorrow with various interviews in and around Manhattan. A massive tip to anyone with a startup.... spend the $$$ on a great PR firm - it's the best money you'll ever spend - seriously. Our PR firm, MPRM, are outstanding, and have done a phenomenal job getting us in front of the right people. Word.
That's it for now... I should really go test a few things before hitting the sack.
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WorldTV to launch November 14th!
Well, it's official! WorldTV will launch its next generation online video service two weeks from today at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco. A European launch will follow a couple of weeks later with a party in London.
We're naturally all very excited here at WorldTV Towers as it's been an incredibly long time coming.
While researching our 'history' pages, I was doing some digging around and found some very early ideas for our website which are pretty interesting, if a little dated. Here's the very first website design for WorldTV from 1998, and here's the homepage which ran on the site for a large number of years.
To all those who've signed up for the beta I thank you. You will be getting an invite to try it out very soon... before the masses...!
