Devices

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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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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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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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!).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzGljuievpM[/youtube]
2 iPhone Home

Above ‘me browsing the lamp [...]

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Personalized Home Entertainment and Human Behaviour

Nov 29th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Cross Media, Devices, Distribution, Divergence, Events, Innovation, Interactive TV, Media Personalizing, Metadata, On-demand, Personalization, Revolution, Social Issues & Privacy, Social Software, TV

I did a short presentation at the Australian Communications Media Authority ICE conference last week. It was at the end of a plethora of panel presentations about regulation, media literacy, digital privacy and converged business models. There was also a range of keynotes that were pretty generic, about attitude to change eg: Steve Vamos (Microsoft [...]

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Long time coming Apple?

Sep 15th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Devices, Distribution, Events, Innovation, Mobile, Mobile TV, On-demand, Revolution, TV

One of those told you so moments and great to think one is ahead of the curve. Back in December 05 I blogged in a post entitled “Apple iHomeMediaCenter” about a few chats I had with Apple folk at the launch of the mac mini in San Fran in Jan 2005 and previously at 2002 [...]

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Watch YouTube, Google Video and iTunes on your TV

Aug 26th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Devices, Distribution, Media Personalizing, On-demand, Portals, Social Software, TV, Web 2.0

Now I generally dont blog about devices because as we know ‘it’ is about experience design, stories, easy to use tools and elegant product design - and no, I am not on commission but this product for me is media distribution come full circle. I have personally been through the cycle of

Web TV (the boxes [...]

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