Chatsum Gets Regal
Now that the thank yous are out of the way, I thought you might like to know how the show went. In a word: brilliantly!
There were over 1,000 visitors per day with VIPs including Prince Philip, Gordon Brown, Terence Conran, the Duke of Gloucester and the venerable Tom Coates.
I got to meet both Prince Philip and Gordon Brown and show them Chatsum. Prince Philip thought our font sizes were too small but admitted he has that problem with the whole of the Internet; Gordon Brown left saying he’d remember the name ‘Chat-sum’, only after he’d probed me on its economic value.
Next came the news that Microsoft are interested in talking to us, firming up a rumour we’d heard from our Brazilian users - they’re so ahead of the game. Now all we need is for that Google rumour of theirs to come true too!
I also had some really good conversations with people from the BBC, Design Council, Skype, The Guardian, BSkyB and Cambridge University all of whom I’ll be getting back in touch with as soon as I get a chance.
I’ve left out the really big news because it deserves its own post and I need to find a nice picture to go with it but stay tuned, it’s not often I have news bigger than meeting the Queen’s husband.
Wow, is chatsum getting big?
Where did all this you wrote in your blog happen?
Waiting eagerly for the big news you have.
Comment by aseem behl — July 9, 2006 @ 10:53 am
It all happened during the Royal College of Art Summer Show Aseem, it’s almost worth doing a masters there just for the publicity you get from the final show.
Comment by George — July 11, 2006 @ 11:29 am
[…] It’s been a long time since I last wrote here and I don’t have the energy right now to document all of the exciting things that have happened since (here are some). Tomorrow I fly to San Francisco for a week to show Chatsum and BlogRadio at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale. You can read more over on the Chatsum blog which is where most of my blogging energy has been going recently. I’m planning to get my flickr on while I’m away and I’m sure Matt, with his beautiful website will be taking some photos too. […]
Pingback by I’m George’s Blog » Blog Archive » It’s been a long time — July 28, 2006 @ 9:20 pm
By the way George, I’ll be expecting the check in the mail for the use of my photos bruv-
Comment by Jim — July 31, 2006 @ 2:10 pm
Don’t sell this to Microsoft please! They’ll probably put ads in it. I think it’s sweet the way it is.
Comment by sweetdiss — October 3, 2006 @ 8:45 pm