The Apple iPad – Initial Thoughts
Every so often, a technology comes along that redefines competition within markets: Email redefined the way people communicate, and in doing so, undermined the letter…
Continue reading →Innovation and Technology
Innovation drives us forward. Technology unlocks the door.
NEW versus BETTER
What makes things popular? Often, new stuff is popular, just because it’s new. It’s there – and it wasn’t there before. It doesn’t necessarily mean…
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Monopoly’s Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMMOG)
How adland is cutting Big Media out of the future: a great piece from Wired on the Tribal DDB / Monopoly City Streets Massive Multiplayer…
Continue reading →Kiss my RSS – An Explanation of RSS
Why don’t more people use RSS? Let’s start at the beginning, with an answer to the question: “What is RSS?” The best way to describe it…
Continue reading →SmartCompany: Me on Twitter’s churn and burn
I’m is quoted in this Patrick Stafford piece in SmartCompany. It’s about Twitter’s appalling churn rate of over 60%. Some of the reasons why Twitter’s retention…
Continue reading →Twitter is for old people
According to Nielsen, Twitter is most popular with 35-49 year olds, with teens barely rating on the Twitter popularity scale: Twitter Doesn’t Smell Like Teen Spirit…
Continue reading →Google might be making us stupid
A great piece on how Google, and changing media consumption habits are changing the way we think – literally. Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Continue reading →I WANT AN APPLE TV!
Apple TVs are SO COOL! Now they’ll be able to stream YouTube straight to your TV. And soon enough, Joost and other online video services….
Continue reading →Joost – a brand new way to watch TV shows online
I’ve been spending a lot of time on Joost lately; I got a Beta invite. And I can’t get enough. I reckon it’s the greatest…
Continue reading →I hate voicemail: Here’s four tips on handling voicemail
At the moment… is voicemail messages. I’ve hated them for a while without realising it, but I’m increasingly annoyed with them. If you don’t answer,…
Continue reading →Twit
Twitter is the reality TV of the web. Short, bite sized bursts of thought, with no narration, to be consumed instantaneously. I’m thinking it might…
Continue reading →WiFi Radio
Now I wouldn’t assume that it’s not too hard for someone to make a bloody WiFi alarm clock radio? For years, I’ve been thinking that…
Continue reading →Borders is in trouble. Not good.
The Australian arm of the fantastic chain of bookstores, Borders, is being put up for sale by its US parent company. The US company is…
Continue reading →A corporate competitor for YouTube
From NewsCorp and NBC Universal. So interesting how this new venture will go, especially when you consider News Corp and Google are in bed in…
Continue reading →Five reasons why Second Life is shit
1. There’s no point to it. World of Warcraft and other online games and spaces have a point – make friends, complete quests, shoot people,…
Continue reading →Jobs’s Volte Face on Music?
Steve Jobs, guru extraordinaire of Apple Computer, has published a very interesting essay on the Apple website entitled “Thoughts on Music”. It describes how he…
Continue reading →Mass Debate Online
If you love a bit of a verbal stoush, check out ConvinceMe.net. I haven’t tried it yet but I like the idea of it. Not…
Continue reading →“Participation is the new consumption” – from Trendwatching.com
participation is the new consumption I LOVE IT. Consumption has consumed itself. Nothing is original. Affluence has become affluenza. The only thing which is original…
Continue reading →EMI = Every Mistake Imaginable
The past few weeks have been somewhat tumultuous in the music industry, with the departure of two of the music industry’s best regarded executives, David…
Continue reading →‘Welcome to 2007’
Big things are afoot in Cupertino, California – the HQ of Apple Computer. Mac Rumors reports some very interesting possible new releases on January 9…
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