Nestoria UK Blog

Fellow Nestordelphians,

Today we look back over the course of our interview series in 2008. We’re always on the hunt for interesting folks doing interesting things from whom we can learn, and once a month or so we publish one of our discussions with a thought leader from the realm of online property or technology, in the hopes that we can share a few new insights via the discussion.

This year we’ve tried to find more ways to partner with and learn from academia, and this was reflected in our interview series where we spoke with Alex Singleton and Muki Haklay both of UCL.

We’ve also chatted with some of our key partners like Tim Youngman of Archant, and Spain’s Jesus Encinar. In a twist of coincidence, our first interviewee of the year, Lloyd Sheperd, has moved on on to work at our partner Channel4 where he is now a colleague of fellow Nestoria interviewee Lelia Ferro.

We’ve been inspired by several other small start ups via our chats with Stephan Uhrenbacher of Qype, Ivailo Jordanov of retaggr, and Salim Mitha of Wahanda.

Our continued interest in all things neogeo was evident in our discussion with Gary Gale of Yahoo!, and Tom Steinberg of MySociety and we will certainly have more interviews from this area in the coming months.

Finally we’ve had the pleasure of learning from key industry commentators Simon Baker and Brad Inman.

We hope you’ve enjoyed the interviews, and of course we welcome all suggestions for next year. For those interested in looking back melancholically here’s our summary from 2007.

If you’re keen to learn more about the web and new media scene in Germany, Italy or Spain, and you speak the local language, I invite you to subscribe to our local blogs where we also run regular interviews with thought leaders.