Will Roissetter's posts

Lately there has been a lot of discussion around conferences in the tech world and the amount of female representation on the panels. Whilst this has been an issue for years (check out this post by Sara Williams on our site from 2011 and make some time to read the great comments as well ).

The issue really came into the public domain recently when Rebecca Rosen wrote this piece on the Panel Pledge in The Atlantic. 

When iTunes 11 launched last week it restored all of my previous iTunes purchases via iCloud. My first purchase was made on the 9th of February 2007, I think that would have been made on my old (old) laptop whilst I was in University. I realised then that I hadn't 'purchased' an album, even in digital format for years. Back then I used to buy lots of vinyl (I still buy the occasional one) and I used one digital service model, iTunes and it suited me just fine. If someone had asked me if I wanted to start discovering, consuming and buying music in dozens of different ways I would have thought they were a bit strange. But, now I use these services and recognise the amazing value in them and a lot of that has to do with the devices I use. 

Yesterday a few of us trundled down to see Tim speak at Internet Week's 'Brilliant Lectures' as part of Poke's Creative Day at Hackney House. Tim shared the stage with Mr Bingo, Tom Roope of RumpusRoom and it was compered by Simon Waterfall. It was my first trip to Hackney House, a collaboration between London Borough of Hackney and UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and private sponsorship that is taking place during the Olympics. Its purpose is to showcase some of the vibrant, creative and entrepreneurial spirit that lives in Hackney and the East End.

The App Store has just approved our latest release of Picle - version 1.0.4 - and it is ready for download now. 

Apologies for the radio silence on how Picle has been developing since the last release. The reason for this is that we have been wrestling internally over what Picle actually is. It sounds rather existential, but by watching how people use Picle and feedback to us, we have had to ask some deeper questions than 'How can we get more people using the app?'.

^{Here is a panaromic shot of some sketches, printouts and timeline up in the Picle den.} 

Toot toot! Picle 1.0.3 is in the app store. It isn't the overhauled socially integrated version that I wrote about previously, but it does include something that we have had a lot of requests for, converting picles into movies. There are also new notification screens for uploading stories and the uploading of individual Picles has had some improvement tweeks made. 

Tim took time out from SxSW to answer questions on Picle, its future developments, walking around in underwear and other things to look forward to. 

In my last post I wrote about how we are moving forward with Picle and that we have an interim release coming out this week, well the good news is that the interim release (1.0.2) is live in the App Store now. 

Last week we had our first Picle strategy meeting since getting back to blighty from SXSW. We have digested a lot of feedback from tweets, emails, reviews, articles, as well as testing it out ourselves, and it was time to step back and take a look at where we're at.

We started off by evaluating how the launch went and how people have responded to the concept of Picle. Stuart drew this rather rudimentary graph of the potential life span of Picle.

After a week of BBQs, speeches, panels, margaritas, putting names to faces and more BBQs I’ve landed back at Made by Many HQ and I want to share some of the Picle love.