Thousands of years ago I was a 'Head Of Interactive' trying to convince Leo Burnett that the internet was going to be quite popular. It didn't work. And Steve Bowbrick and Ivan Pope were starting Webmedia, inventing everything and being two of the British faces of Bubble 1.0. (Though obviously we didn't know it was 1.0 then, or a bubble.) I didn't know them, but I used to pretend I did.
Then they went their separate ways and I had the occasional coffee with Steve and swapped the occasional comment with Ivan. Both very nice blokes. And then I saw on bowblog that they're back in business together, with a really interesting thing called snipperoo. It made me feel all warm and nostalgic, like when Madness reformed for that first Finsbury Park gig. Ivan's got a great post about the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 here and I liked this glum picture of Steve. The best of British Bubble luck to them both.
Wait till we hold the first 'Internet World first night 90's style party', then we really can get nostalgic.
Thanks for the writeup, we'll get you on the beta.
Posted by: Ivan Pope | July 06, 2006 at 08:07 PM
It's not a bubble this time, it's a balloon and beneath it we will float over the City chucking half bricks at doubters below...
Posted by: Steve Bowbrick | July 10, 2006 at 01:53 PM
I've seen Brother Beyond live.....amazing.
Posted by: Glenn Arnold | February 17, 2007 at 12:40 AM