Partnering with the biggest electronics retailer in the US

Well finally after quite a lot of to-ing and fro-ing we have signed the Mydeo – BestBuy partnership deal and it's out there for public consumption. The official press release is coming out from Best Buy today but its already been picked up by TechCrunch, the Washington Post and CNN.

With a long roadmap of developments and further integration that should hold all users and other partners in good stead there'll be lots more to come on this and the marketing efforts that will surround it.

Fate

This morning, quite by chance I picked up a copy of the Guardian's technology supplement kindly left by someone on the tube. My interest was piqued by the promise of a review of the Blackberry 8800 that i am expecting to receive shortly. Whilst picking over a few interesting things in there, something about Microsoft and the EU wondering whether the recent ruling will in fact undermine the whole tech patent process in Europe, the slightly disappointing review, and a comparison of the relative traffic being sent to and from GooTube by their content partners I spotted 'startup' in the title of an article by Victor Keegan. Turns out it is about Saul's OpenCoffee event, the first of which was last Thursday and the second today. This is Cary's rather shaky shot of today's OpenCoffee but there were some interesting folks there; you can just about make out David, Sam and Saul at the back there and she met some interesting potential partners and interested VC's to boot...



Victor says "Someone else is doing well selling high quality video streaming to companies" - honest guv, he means us!