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Alexander McCall-Smith Engages Web 2.0

The Daily Telegraph is in the middle of a 20-week serialisation of an online book created by author Alexander McCall-Smith, his first such project. New Media Knowledge caught up with the organisers to discuss ‘Corduroy Mansions’.

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Business Brief: Video Advertising Looks to Future

Google has announced it will incentivise advertisers on its video properties as well as launching research programmes into how Web users consume Internet video material. New Media Knowledge spoke to a number of industry players to gauge their views on where the video advertising market is going.

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‘Virtual Home’ for Ex-Pats in London Established

A social network aimed at providing information for ex-pats living in London has been established. New Media Knowledge met the site’s co-founder to find out more.

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YDA Awards Open for Entries

The Y Design Awards (YDA), part of London Design Festival, is now open for entries. Covering nine categories, the awards recognise excellence in the UK’s digital creative industries at a designer level.

In 2007 112 of the UK's leading online design agencies submitted more than 420 entries for the Y Design Awards, and this year the organisers are looking for the best in interactive and digital design. The judges include respected practitioners from the UK’s design community, including Airside’s Managing Director and Founder Nat Hunter, AIG's Malcolm Garrett and Chris Walker, Director of Technology at Agency.com.

Entrants are encouraged to submit their work via the YDA Website.

The Categories:

 

The YDA Community Award

The YDA Ethical Award

The YDA Interactive Award

The YDA Dynamic Award

The YDA Open Source Award

The YDA Technology Innovation Award

The YDA Mobile Design Award

The YDA Mobile Technology Award

The YDA Judges Award

Winners will be revealed and prizes presented at an invite-only Awards ceremony on 17 September 2008 - the culmination of Digital Design Day (D3) at the Royal Festival Hall. D3 is a new initiative of the London Design Festival in recognition of the growing impact that technology and digital design has on people’s lives on a day-to-day level. A day of workshops and exhibitors promises the exciting collision of art and technology.