Social Media Cafe in London
Nice idea from Lloyd about creating a social media cafe in London. Here’s the vision…
Ground floor is open to the public, a café style space with good coffee, tea, snacks, fussball, space invaders and the like - maybe the odd plate of eggs bacon chips and beans. Plasma screen shows a rolling twitter timeline from all our mates. An alternative to constantly having to find somewhere to meet up and have coffee and a place where people love you using the wifi.
First floor (don’t get hung up on the physical orientation, just a separate space) is for members & guests. Not a posh exclusive (male) type of private members club (you know where I mean), but something softer, gentler, more suited to creative & geeky types than just to the thrusting entrepreneur. Facilities are flexible meeting rooms, desks and co-working spaces and more exclusive lounging, chatting space with coffee & tea. It’s a bit quieter up here.
Second floor (again really just another separate space) is for media production - podcasting & video-blogging equipment for hire - soundproofed studios, maybe some helpful techies to guide the uninitiated.
Sounds nice.
My guess is the best bet it so buddy up with others already doing stuff in that general direction…. try the Hub in Torrens Street N1 - My client ONzo use this space and it’s great.
I was up there last week and they tell me that A new Hub will be opening somewhere near Waterloo with a slightly different focus - more meeting rooms….. but maybe Lloyd can use that as a launch base.
August 26th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Have seen a similar project years ago back in the “early” days of the internet circa 1995.
There was the Queensland Multimedia Arts Center right next door the Hub Cafe, which was the first internet cafe in Brisbane.
Quite a nice mix.
Many interesting projects came out of this.