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I have selected witricity for my final semester B.TECH project. The aim of my project is to build up a circuit that can transmit wireless power to atleast 10metres and can charge the electronic gadgets. I need your help and sugestions for my proje...
yesterday
JonClarke added a discussion to the group Games Starz
Calling all Xbox Gamers, especially those buying CoD Modern Warfare 2. Post your Xbox Live Profile Name here and find players local to you. If you Twitter, you might be interested in this too. All UK players of #MW2 check out hashtag #MW2UK & fa...
November 10
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There's was a great piece on 'Augmented Reality' in Revolution back in March, and since then I guess a lot of agencies have been getting to grips with the tech and its possibilities. I know the guys at my sister agency Refreshed Media are enjoying...
November 7
Simon Podd, Head of Sales UK & Ireland simon@beboinc.com T: 020 7291 4907 3rd Floor Holden House 57 Rathbone Place London W1T 1JU Here you go Matthew, cheers, Jon
November 4

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Name
Jon Clarke
Occupation: Current Company
Media Starz Founder & Head of Digital @ Space & Time Media
My Personal or Company Website
http://www.netretro.net
More Info About Me:
Hi, Jon here, web, marketing and advertising guy, the founder of MediaStarz.co.uk and a few other things. I have several interests on the go at once, but love to kick back with family, friends, live music and games/gadgets, supporting West Ham is my rollercoaster and getting a chance to play softball is always worth it.

Please say hi and add me as a friend, I add all manner of things each week, music, video, a blog, great internet widgets, mobile platforms, helpful sites, events and a candid view on London life.

MediaStarz is nearly 3 years old, where has the time gone and I guess we are just getting past the toddling period now. Certainly the site has filled out more with great alliances, advertisers and hundreds of helpful links to those sites everyone needs in this industry. And if you know of one that's not on here send it to me or add it in one of the groups for all to share.

I've settled at Space & Time Media, plenty of great clients needing to know about the Internet, but I'm also available for consultant work and 1-2-1s with advertisers or agencies who need some info on Digital Marketing, latest trends, best ways to aid search rankings, attaining leads etc, so feel free to contact me here and i'll happily pop-over.

Lastly you need to invite your friends and colleagues to MediaStarz, it really has a great store of helpful tips, links, events and videos, and with your help Media Starz will really go Supa Nova!

Cheers!
My fave Websites:
Any apps sites - I applaud the minds that think them up - VideoJug.com, NetRetro.Net, Ning.com, Xbox.com, YouTube.com, Oggs.com, Snipperoo.com, ShinyShiny.tv, Dropbox.com, Pandora.com, SaferServices.co.uk - and new project TopTenSlots.com soon out
My fave Music
Just gone back in time - Henry The Wasp - Highliners! Eclectic choices, but SKA, Indie, Punk, Electro, Jazz, MOD, and lately, Kaiser Chiefs, Al Lewis, Badly Drawn Boy, New Order, Swans Way, Hanger Lane, FatboySlim, Gorillaz, Goldfrapp, Faithless, Franz Ferdinand, Kathryn Williams, Regina Spektor, Chemical Brothers, Mika, Joy Division, Cure, James Brown, Tings Tings, Milkshakes, The Jam
My Fave Games
Now playing Xbox/360 Live - Battlefield Bad Company, GOW2, Fable2, COD4, Halo 3, Forza 2, Battlefield2, Crimson Skies, Texas Holdem Poker - (JACE66 - Add me!) Not online - Mass Effect, Oblivion, Tomb Raider, Tom Clancy's End Game

Wii - The Bigs, Wii Sport, Mario & Sonic Olympics, Wii Fit

Nintendo DS Lite - FIFA09, Russ Meyers Civ Revolution
CV Summary: Where I've worked
Digital Media Consultant
Space & Time Ltd - Head of Digital - (Current - 18 months)
MediaStarz - creator (Current - 2.9 yrs)
ex-Eyeconomy MD (7 yrs)
ex-Mindshare TV AcDir (2 yrs)
ex-Universal McCann TV Manager (2 yrs)
ex-BMP DDB Needham Senior TV Buyer (6 yrs)
ex-Central TV Group Head (2 yrs)
ex-Yorkshire TV Sales Exec(2 yrs)
Strengths:
Passionate about digital media, knowledge and experience of latest trends and solutions, entrepreneurial and a leader - fair, honest and helpful.
Other sites I frequent:
Business Networking:
Twitter-MediaStarz Do you Twitter to?
Facebook Profile It's nice to know what FB is up to...
ecademy.com My life & work details thus far...
My Owned Sites:
SaferServices.co.uk Female Business & Skilled Trades Web Directory (mine)
http://Casinotabs Gaming Community - Gambling Social Networking Site
http://EnglandTeam.ning.com - All England fans of all sports Social Networking site
Others:
www.lost.eu Internet Game Please come and play - here's your invite!
www.eco.co.uk What's on at Earls Court & Olympia
UKNetmarketing
IAB UK
MySpace - Me
Facebook - Me
Do you Twitter? What's your Twitter address?
http://twitter.com/mediastarz

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JonClarke

Crowdspring Founders Say Sorry

Woke up to an email from the founders of Crowdspring.com this morning saying sorry for the problems the site has been experiencing this last week. Quite refreshing to hear a sorry. The site is a great idea to put creative work and ideas out to tender, so I hope it all gets better soon.

Dear friends,

As you've probably noticed, we've run into a series of technical problems over the past 7-10 days. Because of that, we wanted to take a break from our norm… Continue

Posted on May 7, 2009 at 8:45am —

JonClarke

Ning gets its own Apps Platform, so many to choose from!

After passing the 1,000,000 networks mark recently, today, Ning is about to deliver a huge range of extra functionality to their 700,000 social network creators with Ning Apps, giving them more than 90 new toys — think apps like Qik, Twitter, Ustream, Box.net, Tokbox, WordPress, Mailchimp, and PollDaddy — that they can use to enhance their individual networks.

The new apps aren’t just social in nature, but impressively functional, combining passion and purpose for all niche audiences. So groups… Continue

Posted on May 6, 2009 at 9:31pm —

JonClarke

Favourites of this week...

Been a busy week and a half, new business won has been planned and bought, and already I'm pulled back in to the fray of pitching for 3 more. Success rate so far still 100% so I must be doing something right on the online media front, together with great colleagues who cover off the offline plans.

On the back of that I've been also looking at more web 2.0 social media apps and my favourites this week are TV/Selfstream Ustream.com,… Continue

Posted on April 29, 2009 at 10:01pm —

JonClarke

Threshers & Wine Rack 40% Off Voucher IS BACK!



YEAH! It's back the Threshers, Wine Rack, Victoria Wines 40% OFF VOUCHER
Pdf voucher is here 40% OFF WINE & CHAMPAGNE VOUCHER

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Available up to and en… Continue

Posted on April 1, 2009 at 10:18pm —

JonClarke

CEOs & Their Directors Must Twitter & Facebook Or Face Ruin

The Internet has been around for over ten years as a viable advertising, marketing and information medium, yet what is alarming is that many boardroom directors are not in touch with the direction or place the Internet is playing in their customers’ everyday life.

CEOs and Sales Directors need to Twitter and Facebook at least. Why? Well because it would make them understand what the healthy majority of the populous is doing and how these online solutions affect customers’ thoughts and persona a… Continue

Posted on March 27, 2009 at 8:55pm —

JonClarke

Monday telly gets gadgety again

I guess I'm not the only one here who will be happy Mondays are gadgety again. Fivels Gadget Show returns today at 8.00pm for a new series. Hooray! With Top. Gear this is one show not to miss, the presenters are always great and have school boy enthusiasm for the latest the techy world throws at us. Ilm looking forward to the 3D television bit tonight. As kids we dream of the future and wonder if what feels at times like sci-fi will ever be real, and then can marvel when it really happens. I've… Continue

Posted on March 9, 2009 at 10:03am —

JonClarke

Ali Bongo RIP

Sad news, Ali Bongo, President of the Magic Circle, died yesterday. He was one of my favourite kids tv entertainers and the best magician of all time.

Real name, William Wallace, he first made his name on telly as The Shriek of Araby and hekped later devise illusions and tricks for others including Paul Daniels.

He was 79.

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Posted on March 9, 2009 at 9:30am —

JonClarke

Green Custard Politics One in the Eye for Mandy

Roared with laughter this morning when I heard the news that an anti-extra Heathrow runway supporter had thrown green custard over the Business Secretary Lord Peter Mandleson. They interviewed the green activist on Radio 5 and she was very articulate.
More news of it here at the BBC News website

And here's the video! Green Party Politics - Mandleson Just Desserts Continue

Posted on March 6, 2009 at 8:00am —

JonClarke

Now this is so weird and spooky - how does it work?

At the end of this message, you are asked a question.
Answer it immediately. Don't stop and think about it.

Just say the first thing that pops into your mind.

This is a fun "test"... AND kind of spooky at the same time! Give it a try,
then e-mail it around (including back ! to me) and you'll see how many
people you know fall into the same percentage as you. Be sure to put in the
subject line if you are among the 98%

or the 2%. You'll understand what that means after you finish taking the
test… Continue

Posted on February 28, 2009 at 7:19pm —

JonClarke

A new G1 Phone, Video and a Robot called Asimo

A G1 Phone or a Nokia or an iPhone? All had their pros and cons, but in the end I chose the T-Mobile G1 phone, price and performance, plus the open apps of the Google Android platform I prefered over the locked to Apple iPhone.

My only regret is that it doesn't have a video camera solution, which in these days of hightech gadgetry I am so surprised, but no doubt some talented programmer will suss the way to do it and then make a killing offering a working video camera option for the G1.

I coul… Continue

Posted on February 23, 2009 at 8:00pm —

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At 10:22am on June 17, 2009, Phil Begnett said…
Hi Jon, thanks for inviting me to your site, looks great!

Have a question for you. Im currently on the look out for a business partner for my online video production company. Where abouts on this site should i advertise this? or do i go to individual profile pages and see if they would be interested that way by their details?
At 11:34pm on April 5, 2009, kevin ferry said…
Will do
At 2:04am on April 5, 2009, Phil said…
Thanks for liking our music enough to wanna put one of our songs up on your page.I got the download to work.
Phil
At 11:04am on April 2, 2009, Gill Hunt said…
Hi Jon. Thanks for the comment. Just published the 2009 survey results which show a 7.5% increase! Full details here
At 8:01pm on February 24, 2009, Abigail Barr said…
Hello! Yeah site looks good, although i'd be lying if i said i understood fully how to navigate around it?! I'm off for a wee nosey.................
 
 

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Happy New Homes Week

As the whole nation prepares to spend the next week enthusiastically celebrating the wonderful world of new homes, we thought this might be a good opportunity to take stock of the market and cross some optimistic fingers that we might all be headed in the right direction at last.

It can’t go unmentioned that the start of New Homes Week, September 12th, is two years to the day since the board of Northern Rock first asked the Bank of England for a “liquidity support facility” (a sub, to you and me), due to its exposure to bad debt in the American sub-prime mortgage market. Within a few days worried savers had withdrawn £2 billion from Northern Rock and in February of the following year the bank was privatised.

If we can see this event as the start of the enormous downturn we’ve all been enduring these last two years, perhaps it’s not too early to look back over more recent months and ask whether we aren’t starting to climb our way out of trouble: there aren’t many green shoots around yet, but are we starting to lay down their roots?

Housebuilder Magazine for one has found some fairly substantial reasons to be cheerful. Obviously there’s a vested interest here, but even considering the source, the news is significant nonetheless. Reported recently alongside a “reservation surge for Bovis”, a “sales boost for Taylor Wimpey” and a “reservations boost” for both Miller and Galliford Try, were the results of an online poll carried out by the magazine, according to which 86% of respondents believed the market had bottomed out.

For a less biased but still really rather positive view, we might look at the most recent figures posted by the Land Registry’s house price index, which recorded a month on month house price rise for August of 1.7%. Across the country the year on year movement is still in negative figures, but the performance in August has begun to chip away at this, and in Wales the average house price has even had a year on year increase, of 3.1%.

Elsewhere, the Nationwide has also reported a rise in prices, for the fourth consecutive month. The lender has recorded a 3.2% rise in the average sale price over the first 8 months of 2009 and highlights the quarter on quarter rise of 3.3% seen for August as the highest increase since February 2007.

So, we might not be all the way there yet, but good things do appear to be happening at last. A heady mix of low prices (an average of 17% down on January 2008’s peak), cheap - albeit still difficult to come by- credit, realistic valuations from private sellers, pent up demand and under supply seems to be doing the trick.

See you next time!!

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World Cup the Final Countdown

This weekend saw the first of the two leg World Cup play-offs and many of the favoured teams are still not safely on the plane to South Africa 2010. France, Portugal, Russia and Uruguay all take one goal leads into their second legs on Wednesday night. Elsewhere minnows New Zealand booked their place, the first time [...]

Fall In Soldier! COD 6 – Modern Warfare 2 – Gaming History

Today is the official launch of COD6 Modern Warfare 2, dubbed the most anticipated game of the decade by many gamers across the world. Oggs reviewer JC got his hands on a copy 24 hours early of the eagerly anticipated sequel to Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare and his verdict after 8 hours [...]

Future of Gaming: games bigger than films!

It was with great interest today that I viewed on YouTube the longest advert I’ve ever seen for a game. It wasn’t a walkthrough video, nor the developers talking about how they created it. It was in fact a 14 minute and 11 second epic film, setting the scene for the upcoming Assassins Creed II [...]

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Last season William Hill customers enjoyed more top prices than any other leading bookmaker. This season is no different. The price comparison was taken from the Racing Post (Saturdays) 09/08/08 – 03/10/09 (Tuesdays) 11/08/09 – 06/10/09 comparing team prices covering domestic and cup fixtures and World Cup and friendlies. Oggs has reviewed many of these and [...]

Drama as London Poker Season ends

Some of the world’s top poker players ended London’s three week poker fest in dramatic style this week. It was Peter Eastgate and Aaron Gustavson in the London leg of the European Poker League Tour and Daniel Negreanu and Barry Shulman in the final of the World Series of Poker Europe. Celebrity players were in attendance [...]

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JonClarke

Crowdspring Founders Say Sorry

Posted by JonClarke on May 7, 2009 at 8:45am

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Favourites of this week...

Posted by JonClarke on April 29, 2009 at 10:01pm

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Threshers & Wine Rack 40% Off Voucher IS BACK!

Posted by JonClarke on April 1, 2009 at 10:18pm

JonClarke

Monday telly gets gadgety again

Posted by JonClarke on March 9, 2009 at 10:03am

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Ali Bongo RIP

Posted by JonClarke on March 9, 2009 at 9:30am

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Green Custard Politics One in the Eye for Mandy

Posted by JonClarke on March 6, 2009 at 8:00am

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Now this is so weird and spooky - how does it work?

Posted by JonClarke on February 28, 2009 at 7:19pm

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A new G1 Phone, Video and a Robot called Asimo

Posted by JonClarke on February 23, 2009 at 8:00pm

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It's Snow Time!

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Straw Bear Burn Weekend - flippin freezin, but great

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Wii Fit - own up if you got one!

Posted by JonClarke on January 6, 2009 at 11:58pm — 1 Comment

 

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