Adrian Johnson

Link to MrFootage

MrFootage www.mrfootage.com is the company I own with Johan Sundberg and Erik Jonason.

MrFootage is a stock footage collection of high quality moving image sequences, serving the advertising, television and film industries. We have a large amount of our footage online - searchable and viewable via a web technology platform we developed ourselves!

We are a "virtual micro-multinational", the partners located in Fontainebleau, Munich and Stockholm respectively. We manage the business using all the wonderful tools available to small businesses today - Skype, Web-based project management and even an online accounting system ... !

Johan Sundberg being interviewed by Tinstream TV - watch on Adrian Johnson TV

Tinstream TV showing how it is done ... watch on Adrian Johnson TV ...

Adrian Johnson being interviewed on Adrian Johnson TV at the Cannes Lions 2007! ;-)

Interview with Jean-Paul Sigwalt on Adrian Johnson TV

Ballou PR Pont Party

Thursday 19th April 2007, Colette Ballou of Ballou PR (www.balloupr.com)

Straight off the TGV from Cannes and onto the bridge over the Seine for this funky cocktail party under the setting Parisian sun!

See all the photos:
www.adrianjohnson.tv/photos/ballou_2007-04-19/

Back in Cannes ...

I just realised that Cannes seems to be the place where I am spending the most time outside my home. Life is tough! Last week was MIPTV, next month is the Cannes Film Festival (8-)) ), in June it is the Cannes Lions advertising fair and the autumn begins with MIPCOM in October.

MIPTV was particularly interesting this year (I was there promoting Qinova Media - www.qinova.tv , and MrFootage - www.mrfootage.com), with a major presence of Joost (www.joost.com)  and Babelgum (www.babelgum.tv) - the new "kids on the block" in terms of global web-based TV, and both with the advantage of billionnaire backers! 8-(  There was also a keynote speech by Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life.

Lunch at the Circle - Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz "Life as a tech venture innovator in France"

Rodrigo starts his Abut in his blog with “I have over 10 years experience in the Internet space”. Well, in internet that is actually quite a long time…Rodrigo currently runs a new venture called vpod.tv that he co-founded and is CEO of. vpod.tv is a video publishing on demand service that just raised $5.1 million. Rodrigo has previously co-founded RISC Partners, a private small equity firm in Paris and was involved in the start up of Glowria.fr (online rental of DVD) as interim CEO.

Download the podcast of the lunch:

Part 1

Part 2

Lunch at the Circle - Robert Steggles, "Software as a Service"

31st January 2007 Lunch at the Circle, Is “Software as a Service” (SaaS) disrupting the online business world?

You don’t need a big pc any longer? Death of the desktop? Final liberation from Microsoft’s license payments? Return of the dinosaurs (centralised computing)? Only pay for what you really need and use instead of paying hefty annual fees?.... There are many ways to look at Software as a Service, a reincarnation of the rumoured-defunct ASP model. Presented by Rob Steggles, Marketing Director for NTT Europe Online (previously Verio), http://www.ntteuropeonline.com/.
Rob works with many software companies to deliver software online 'as a service', including aggregators, innovators and software companies that are just plain scared of SaaS. (Rob was also recently instrumental in making NTT Europe the only really European partner to Microsoft for SaaS.) Rob explains how SaaS affects software companies and how it will change the industry. What IS this SaaS thing? Why does it matter? Should I do it? How is it different from ASP (well, there you have it!!)? What are the pitfalls and the advantages?

Watch the vidcast interview before the lunch (7 mins):

Download the podcast of the lunch (57 mins, 27MB).

Lunch at the Circle - Roy Lindemann, ReadSpeaker

Roy’s area of text-to-speech (TTS) belongs to an entirely new generation of internet applications. Simply put, today you can take any web site with text, enable it with TTS, transform it into an internet radio channel, podcast or give it any other voice functions ...

Download the podcast (32MB, 1h10).