I was invited to present to a small public group last month on Media Futures up in the Northern Territory here in Australia – this followed an ABC only presentation. I generally don’t do the Futurist thing, I feel...
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Originally published (& cross translated?) Oct 2011 in Wired Magazine ‘Change Accelerators‘ by...
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Originally published Oct 2011 in Wired Magazine ‘Change Accelerators’ by Gary Hayes 1...
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I promised quite a few folk to provide a walk-through of my short 35 minute presentation at the...
Read MoreI 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...
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I have posted prolifically about MUVE’S (Multi User Virtual Environments) in the past,...
Read MoreIt seems social networks and user generated content that pervades them is now most definitely the next advertising dollar frontier. As reported by MediaPost, MySpace is about to create TV programming around it’s uploaded...
Read MoreFollowing on from a couple of posts ago on the theme of how we are going to find stuff in the sea of content, one of the other overriding themes of Milia (and the Mip market) was that of the deluge of viewer created content...
Read MoreNot quite open doors, more a slightly ajar gate, the BBC was acting out of character in openly having ideas pitched from indies, in this very public forum. I was reminiscing with Ferhan Cook who organises Milia how interactivity...
Read MoreGoogle are starting to charge for adverts. At first glance it may seem a strange way to generate revenues from video downloads but this is more in the spirit of my last two posts merged together – addiction to content...
Read More‘you gotta make the adverts last. (you have to sing/think that in Simon and Garfunkel mode of course). In a world of on-demand – whether via (1) synch’d Personal Digital Recorder (eg: iPod, PSP), (2) broadcast...
Read MoreWhile browsing some gadget sites the other day with my partner we came across a company called SmartAdds who seem to be inextricably attached to the almost defunct Gizmondo, convergent device. The device is/was interesting in...
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