“It’s tempting to shout ‘Stop It! The truth is that television in Britain is commissioned by middle-aged people who rarely watch the box, attempting to reach young people who look at it even less, when it’s actually watched by old people. Twenty to twenty five year olds aren’t sitting goggle-eyed for one very good reason: [...]

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Another selection of my items cross-posted from another of my original blogs, lamp watercooler.
The Ulitmate Mashup Launches - Sport, MMOG & Social Virtual World - 16 Oct 08

Football Superstars is the world’s first Virtual Football World. An entire online virtual world designed by football fans exclusively for football fans, where you can enjoy a massively [...]

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Selected, public worldwide conference presentations, many given as BBC senior producer. Topics include future gazing, personalization standards, creative and emerging production. These represent around 25% of all Gary’s presentations, most others are under NDA, too strategic or specific in topic. Future presentations to be added and others from archive on-going. The selected slideshow embeds are [...]

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I am presenting at this years Advertising and Marketing Summit alongside a nice array of fellow ‘bubbled’ keynoters who are tackling a bewildering range of topics, bulleted below that make lovely Google search strings!:

Unleashing the power of brand experience
The Consumer is King – forecasts and trends of tomorrow’s consumer
Creativity techniques to become an [...]

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Interesting. I have a screen here at work spiting out various random on the spot blog posts from the Future of Media Summit . Looking at the themes and points coming out forcibly takes me back to the mid to late 90s and even earlier. At today’s conference there is lots of discussion about how [...]

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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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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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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
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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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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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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 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!).
2 iPhone Home

Above ‘me browsing the lamp [...]

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…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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