This month we’ve been on the road meeting people at our Meet the Commissioner briefings. Thank you to all those that came along.  It was good to meet you. I promised people I’d post up some notes,  so for those of you that couldn’t make it or those that did make it but have poor memories, here goes.

Working at 4iP is great. Not only do we get to back great products and visionary entrepreneurs but we occasionally sponsor the odd event. Helping to facilitate people meeting, talking and thinking in the real-world hopefully sees more folks applying and receiving 4iP funding. This Friday London’s Conway Hall plays host to Playful09. Tickets are running out fast so I suggest you grab em while you still can!

Today we are confirming further investment in Audioboo, one of the first projects we backed.  As part of the deal, UBC Media, has also injected cash into the forthcoming Audioboo Pro product by buying 8 licences for it. This will help to both finish the product and establish a strong customer pipeline for the company.

4iP are announcing an early investment in SCORES or the school competition results system. This pilot project, which will be based in the West Midlands, is the first stage of an ambitious project by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to commission a national database of school sports results.

As part of our “Recasting the Net” series, we talked to Jo Swinson MP about whether the web has the potential to transform Parliament.

A couple of weeks ago we held a lively debate in Birmingham looking at the impact of the web on politics - and for those who couldn’t make it on the night we have now put the footage of the event online.