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Month: July 2008

On passion and influence

July 28, 2008Administrator 1 Comment

I have a relation who’s a famous retired sportsman; a household name. He returned to his home town and wanted to join the local golf club, which had a waiting list. The membership officer explained to my famous relative that… Continue Reading →

Media, social, twitter

Dalton on digital

July 28, 2008Administrator Leave a Comment

I worry that ABC chief Kim Dalton is spending too much time in the public eye. In trying to talk up free-to-air TV’s future in the Sydney Morning Herald he says ‘additional free-to-air digital channels and devices such as Seven… Continue Reading →

ABC, Television, tivo

Lively is a complete disaster

July 14, 2008Administrator Leave a Comment

Google have this philosophy of putting products into beta early in the development phase and ironing out the problems as they go. It’s not going to work with Lively in the virtual world/game space. People are not going to come… Continue Reading →

lively, virtual reality, virtual world, vivaty

Lively and Vivaty

July 10, 2008Administrator 1 Comment

Pictured: Me in Lively, streaming Lisa Nova’s Twitter Whore video into my room, Twittery. Lively is described as Google’s answer to Second Life. It’s not. Second Life is a virtual world; Lively is chat software with 3D avatars. It’s browser-based,… Continue Reading →

google, lively, Second Life, vivaty

Nice breakthrough, I’m writing you off

July 10, 2008Administrator 3 Comments

IBM and Second Life have announced the ability to teleport from Second Life into Open Sim grids (an open source version of Second Life). They describe this as a first; well, my business partner Loki Clifton and others have been… Continue Reading →

ibm, Second Life, virtual reality, virtual world

Advertising radio on TV

July 8, 2008Administrator 2 Comments

The ABC are advertising their Local Radio stations on the teev. Fair enough. The ad features snatches of audio from a range of different programs and a fairly static visual background. It’s dreadfully unappealing. When you watch television, and this… Continue Reading →

ABC, Advertising

What does BANNED mean?

July 4, 2008Administrator 2 Comments

“Each morning, the Maori people of New Zealand, which is part of Australia, rise at dawn, cook some eggs, put on their grass skirts and go out to the fields to make 42 below vodka.” It’s the start of a… Continue Reading →

Advertising, new zealand, regulation

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