I was very interested to meet with Gideon Clifton, CEO at upcoming taxi-bookings service, TaxiStop. Gideon was at the BlueVia-Microsoft event to talk about the how TaxiStop is leveraging a plethora of Microsoft and BlueVia technologies to deliver its new service. I’m rather excited at the prospect of using TaxiStop to book my taxi journeys [...]
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Cooliris CEO Soujana Bhumkar introduces LiveShare
At the Microsoft-BlueVia event in London, Soujana Bhumkar, CEO of Cooliris was there to discuss how his company makes substantial use of both Microsoft and BlueVia technologies. I asked him to give us an overview of the LiveShare service and tell us about how he uses BlueVia/Microsoft to support his business.
Richard Cudlip introduces TweetALondonCab’s deal with TaxiStop
I’ve been following the growth and success of the phenomenon that is TweetALondonCab for some time now so it was brilliant to be able to capture co-founder Richard Cudlip on camera today at the Microsoft-BlueVia event. Richard was there to talk about his organisation’s new arrangement with the upcoming Taxi service, TaxiStop (see the next [...]
Ron Stevenson of Schakra discusses GoGoStat
At the Microsoft-BlueVia event in London, I met up with Ron Stevenson, Product Manager at Schakra to find out more about their GoGoStat service and to learn more about how they plan to integrate BlueVia into their offering.
Working at internet speed with a mobile operator
Continuing our BlueVia Introduction series, their top man, Jose Valles, is back — but this time in English! (I hope you enjoyed Jose’s brief Spanish video from Monday). I asked Jose if he could give me an example of how BlueVia works with developers. He jumped straight into an answer so I’ve edited the video [...]
An overview of BlueVia in Spanish
Right then time for Jose Valles, top man at BlueVia, to feature again. This time there’s a bit of a change to the normal interview style though. I just changed one tiny aspect. The language! I asked Jose if he could introduce BlueVia entirely in Spanish. My Spanish is limited to basic two and three [...]
José Valles discusses life at BlueVia
Continuing our series on BlueVia, we’re back with José Valles, BlueVia’s top man. In this segment, I asked him what it’s like working at BlueVia. For more information on BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer programme, please visit www.bluevia.com.
We talk to Ruben Mellado, BlueVia’s Head of Product
In the fourth episode of our BlueVia Introduction series (kindly supported by BlueVia) we meet Ruben Mellado. Ruben is BlueVia’s Head of Product and Technology and therefore is well placed to give us a bit more of a technical overview of the available APIs. Have a watch! For more information on BlueVia, Telefonica’s developer programme, [...]
José Valles: The background to BlueVia
It’s time for the third episode of our BlueVia Introduction series (kindly supported by BlueVia). This time we hear from BlueVia’s top man, José Valles. I was initially planning on doing a 5-6 minute interview with him just to make sure we had his perspective. We spoke together on camera for 20 minutes at Mobile [...]
Just how important is iTunes to me? Lots!
I wrote a post for the MIPTV blog (at the invitation of James, the editor) discussing what I see as a rather stark choice for any entertainment content producer: If you’re not on iTunes, you’re dead to me. I’d very much welcome your viewpoint on this!