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The Truth about Text Based Dating

May 15th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Mobile, Social Software

Informative, funny, sexy, insightful, topical, professional…but enough about me here’s a great animation, scarily a little too close to the truth about SMS (could be online too) dating - (hat tip to Nicola from AFTRS)

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Web 0.0 to 5.0 - Spheres of Influence

May 14th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Distribution, Media Personalizing, Participatory Media, Personalization, Social Issues & Privacy, Social Networks, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, personal

Currently doing some talks about online buzz and the ‘network’ and thought I would share some of those cute charts I threw together to illustrate a few angles. Firstly though just wanted to get out there a simple view/evolutionary map of the track we are on, the out-of-control train without brakes hurtling towards an always-on, […]

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The Format Generator v0.1a

Apr 19th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Innovation, Locative, Media Personalizing, Metadata, Participatory Media, Personalization, Search, Transformation

A nice little toy to play with down below which has resulted from a few recent think streams. I have been thinking hard about the potential millions of formats that can be created by mashing the many traditional media forms with even more new media forms - endless combinations of genre, platform, structure, intention and […]

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SocioNet 101, Body Interface and The Cyber Celeb

Apr 18th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Business, Creativity, Cross Media, Devices, Games, Media Personalizing, Participatory Media, Profiling, Social Networks, Social Software, bloguilt

Three more of my cross posts from the LAMP Watercooler I write/edit.
1 SOCIAL NETWORKING 101 FOR MORNING TV AUDIENCES
I just captured and uploaded to YouTube a TV show (yes they are still going!) this morning featuring Australia’s leading social network strategist and social network hostess with the mostess, Laurel Papworth - also occasional LAMP mentor […]

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Distributed Web 3.0, roll your own Virtual Worlds, a step closer thanks to Australian companies

Mar 20th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Companies, Distribution, Participatory Media, Portals, Press Release, SDK, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

I don’t often do the press release thing but given this is a great metaverse platform company from my neck of the woods (Melbourne and Brisbane - Australia) and this is beyond the vapourware we have seen from other players hoping to topple Linden and Second Life off their perch, I will make an exception. […]

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3XPosts - Ad Love, Online Ads and iPhone SDK

Mar 11th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Brands, Cross Media, Devices, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Participatory Media, SDK, Social Networks, TV, bloguilt, iphone

Three more quick cross posts from LAMP Watercooler - yes feeling guilty already!
Bring the Love Back
We have seen a lot of videos about the changing media environment but this one nearly a year old, slipped through the net. So just been to a great business, Trans-Tasman lunch and Tony Surtees who was speaking about […]

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Selection of My Speaking Gigs Coming up

Feb 18th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Events, Participatory Media, Second Life, Social Networks, Speaking, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

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As usual a slowish Australian conference start to the year, still getting used to these hot Jan/Febs Coming up though cool conferences and seminars I am appearing at and will add more to this post as others firm up. In chronological order:

Feb 24-29 - LAMP, Victoria. Directing the 8th residential in Marysville, Victoria
Mar 1 […]

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What have you Got against my Bot!

Feb 18th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Devices, Divergence, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Metadata, Participatory Media, Social Software, Transformation, Virtual Worlds

I find this really interesting and a portent of the future. I am sure you remember the context to the films Bladerunner, chasing down sneeky renegade bots. Then there was AI with its ‘Flesh Fair’, (humans destroying orphaned robots), then the agents in Matrix, what is real and who is not etc: All come from […]

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GROWING WORLDS: Turning Your Stories in to Games - Melbourne Seminar

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Creativity, Events, Games, LAMP, Virtual Worlds

Slightly advertorial - For those folk who can get to Melbourne I have been organising what promises to be a really cool workshop. I will be there part interviewer and running the workshop components with the very cool Matt C.
GROWING WORLDS: TURNING YOUR STORIES IN TO GAMES
Presented by AFTRS LAMP, Australia Council’s Story of the […]

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Mashing the Real and the Virtual

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Cross Media, Events, Locative, Media Personalizing, Mixed Reality, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

I am very interested in Mixed or Cross Reality advances at the moment. Over the past 6 months there have been some great trials and even a few commercial enterprises set up including Total Immersion. But a couple of trials caught our attention in the last couple of weeks. The first (virtual into real) in […]

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1 iFob Me Off 2 Chasing the Dragon 3 Second Skin

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Cross Media, Devices, Locative, On-demand, Participatory Media, Story Telling, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, iphone

1 iFob Me Off

I have had a working phone iPhone in Oz now for a few months - currently jailbroken 1.1.2’s - for R&D purposes only
One of my favourite applications is ‘installer’ which is the portal to a vast array of free, community created, grass roots applications. One popped up yesterday in Recent […]

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1 MR Killer App, 2 iPhone Home 3 Mirror Mirror

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Creativity, Cross Media, Devices, Innovation, Mixed Reality, Mobile, On-demand, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0, iphone, viral

1 Mixed Reality Killer App
OK a ‘give us your comment’ competition. Below an oldie but goody clip from CeBit 2006 but what do you think is the main killer application for this particular synchronous interface? - (no sneaking ideas by reading the hundreds of comments on it’s YouTube page!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzGljuievpM

2 iPhone Home

Above ‘me browsing the lamp […]

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The 3D Metaverse is Only about Sex!

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Distribution, Mixed Reality, Personalization, Second Life, Social Issues & Privacy, TV, Transformation, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

…or so it seems by the constant line of broadcasters (ABC, SBS, CBC, C4 and endless news reports) who deliver so called ‘insights’ into the growing phenomenon of Social Virtual Worlds. The new BBC doco aired a couple of nights ago (YouTube segments embedded below) brought to mind reasons why traditional media companies may want […]

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