What promises to be the party of the year for the media industry, Big Summer ‘07 has been organised by new media and digital marketing site Chinwag. The event promises networking, BBQ, drinks and entertainment:

Join us for the biggest get-together of folk the new media sector in the UK has seen this year, generously supported by our partners Adobe, Agency.com, Channel 4 and Purple.

The party, at the historic Imperial College Union in South Kensington, London, will encompass 5 rooms and the enclosed quadrangle, chock full of innovative and exciting games, exclusive entertainment and giveaways, alongside the full complement of refreshments and delicious BBQ food.

I’ve read Chinwag for a while now and it’s good to see them coming up with a different way of getting people in the industry together. Compared to the usual stuffy hotel-based affair where people nervously pluck up the courage to hand out as many business cards as possible, this should be one to remember. It looks like it will be extremely popular so register now to avoid missing out.

Details: Thursday 5th July 2007 @ 6.30pm (runs until 12:30am), Imperial College Union, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BB, cost: FREE, includes: Summer BBQ, drinks, entertainment and lots of networking.

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This month’s “On location” mashup* event, sponsored by My Neighbourhoods, was a lively and interesting affair. Topics of the evening included location data and Location Based Services (LBS). In addition to sponsoring the event I was asked to sit on the panel along side Rik Temmink (TeleAtlas), Ed Parsons (Google), Ed Freyfogle (Nestoria), John Robinson (SMSCard) and John Abbott (widr).

Around 120 people turned out for what was an excellent evening. Mobile and location-based applications are clearly going to rise in popularity over the coming months while there was a great deal of debate around the subject of personal data, privacy and giving away your location. There’s an excellent write up of the evening at Jay Fresh’s blog.

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I was asked by the nice people at Intruders.tv to take part in a video interview for My Neighbourhoods. The Intruders site was created by Vincent Camara, with a presence in England, France and more launching soon. It’s an interesting alternative to static blogging and I thoroughly enjoyed taking part. You can see the full interview on the Intruders.tv web site.

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Tomorrow is the popular mashup* event, organised by etribes founder Simon Grice. This week’s theme is “On location”, focusing on the value of “where one is”. I’ll be there as My Neighbourhoods is sponsoring the event along side a number of other location-based services. The evening will cover:

• maps
• direction
• find
• discovery
• direction
• detection
• presence
• mashup services for both web and mobile.

Find out more on the mashup* site or register to attend. Come and say hello if you attend.

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Working with the lovely bunch at Carbon DX, I recently took part in the development of a new site build for Calm, an interesting beauty therapy service you can experience from the comfort of your home. Calm provides a range of treatments, therapies and products without you having to leave the house.

Take a look at the new Calm site. And if you fancy a massage or perhaps some aromatherapy, contact Fiona over at Calm.

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As part of the ongoing growth and development of My Neighbourhoods we’ve teamed up with two new partners to bring our members some excellent local content and a source of making money from the site. First up, is ParkatmyHouse.com, an innovative service that allows you to make money from your unused car space or find somewhere to park, without having to pay extortionate prices. Created by Anthony Eskinazi, ParkatmyHouse.com is a niche idea that is set to revolutionise the parking industry. Whether you are a member of My Neighbourhoods or not, you can see parking spaces within a 5 mile radius from your postcode listed under “Parking” in the My Area section of the site.

Our second new partner is JobTonic, the refreshing recruitment referral web site that lets you refer friends for jobs and gives you the finders fee (starting at 75% of the total amount rising to 100% the more you use the site). Again, jobs from your city are listed in the My Area section of the My Neighbourhoods web site.

Find out more about ParkatmyHouse.com and JobTonic.

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