Media Guild Blog

Last week, on June 17th, MediaGuild welcomed delegates from the government, the corporate world, a host of young startups and their incubator counterparts, among others, in the lush conference area of its monumental Pakhuis the Zwijger residence.

During the well attended afternoon, three distinct sessions dealt with the ‘climate’ for new-media entrepreneurship, a ‘pitching’ session that provided a podium to former, current and future MediaGuild projects, and ‘context’ discussion respectively, featuring representatives from other incubators, including Yes!Delft, SPACE (Amsterdam Science Park), New Venture, Dialogues House (by ABN AMRO) and of MediaGuild itself. (more…)

On their road towards “world domination”, internal guild members Postmachina got interviewed by Amsterdam-based TV channel AT5 the other day about their project E. They didn’t get all the facts right, but it was a fun interview either way. It’s in Dutch only, but at least you’ll be able to to get a preview of their new UI and take a look inside the MediaGuild incubator where they are based and the workshop where they are crafting a production-ready prototype.

Have a look below for the footage

The Dutch government is unsure about how it should deal with privacy issues in the virtual world. Do the old privacy laws still apply or is the attitude towards privacy changing?

It seems that young people put their whole lives online; is this typical for their generation or simply their age? And what about the developers of the systems that gather so much information about us? Do they consider privacy issues to be important? The government asked a commission to answer this question and report their advice. Last Monday, the commission talked with Waag Society, MediaGuild and a number of external experts from their network to take heed of their opinion on the matter. (more…)

Thus far we have spent several blogs on the concept of My Name Is E, a product by internal Guild Members PostMachina. They have just opened their doors to a host of beta testers to get user feedback on their online-service, which integrates numerous social network sites at once. Or, in their own ornate wording:

“E’s online service serves as a tie-in hub for a wide array of services; existing social networking services like LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter will be integrated, as well as other services like YouTube, Flickr and offline services like payment systems and security access. E is not another social network, but an augmentation and platform of services which already exist. An open policy to development will ensure the release of an API in the future.” (more…)