TV: Joost and IceTV and Anytime and Reeltime

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Apr 182007
 

While watching Joost TV shows, you can gaily throw around Emoticons on the show chat channels.Getting a little crowded out there, lots of new TV stuff happening in Australia and beyond. Some time ago, I asked (well, whinged and whined and begged) for a token to join Joost.tv beta. And a few weeks ago, Ugo Cei from Italy sent me the invite. Now, I’ve never met Ugo or even heard of him before, but after googling, I found his blog. So here’s a return link and a thankyou to Ugo – grazie mille, caro. Don’t you just love the way Continue Reading…

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TV and Games Mashup: Big Brother

 games, TV, virtual world  1 Response »
Apr 162007
 

Synchronicity is abound on the web. I was chatting with a very smart guy in New Zealand last week, and he mentioned he owns VirtualMe.co.nz. Someone tried to purchase it from him (a big law firm) and we were wondering what it was all about. I thought it might be to do with that avatar customer service concept. I can’t remember if I said so at the time, I was stuffing my face with some very nice pizza, but I would’ve been wrong. Not that you needed to know the last bit, about pizza. Anywaaay, – voila, ITWire to the Continue Reading…

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Mashup: Twitter and SMS – Server Monitoring

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Apr 162007
 

Ok, so you don’t have any friends to add to your Twitter: how about your server? : using Twitter for server-monitoring if you think Twitter is all about personal micro-blogging and basically a waste of time, think again. with their recent API-extension, it’s now possible to integrate Twitter as a cost-free SMS gateway into your own applications (like the guys at Tupalo have already done). of course there are loads of SMS-based monitoring services out there, but the good ones aren’t free, and most aren’t very customizable. my simple demo PHP-script monitors any number of web-servers and alerts me by Continue Reading…

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Dotcom Crash 2.0: UGC Tears before Bedtime

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Apr 152007
 

Short version: When you choose to co-create with a company, the sustainability of your content rises and falls with the fortunes of that company. If Flickr, Second Life, YouTube or *insert name of fave blogging software* vanishes, so does your hard work. … hush now, dry your eyes.The technology-heavy NASDAQ Composite index peaked in March 2000, reflecting the high point of the dot-com bubble Dotcom Crash 1.0 was the crash we had to have. Also known as the TechCrunch (not to be confused with that estimable blog thing), it forced Web beta and Web 1.0 companies to get with market Continue Reading…

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Press: Vogue Australia and Online Lives

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Apr 102007
 

I rang a friend of mine (male) and gushed that I was quoted in a Web 2.0 article in May’s edition of Vogue Australia (Is your life better online? by Cathrin Schaer). He rang me back a little bit later, most miffed. “There’s NO photos of you, and the magazine is full of ADS!!” Bless. It’s my brains, not my *cough* beauty that got me a few paragraphs. But his response was exactly the same as the father of an ex’s years ago. The same incomprehension as to why women would pay 8 bucks for a fashion magazine while ignoring Continue Reading…

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FYI Network problems – Net Split

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Apr 082007
 

N.B. This note appeared two days after the problem started, and one hour before it was resolved. it didn’t appear on the main status page which read ‘green light’ during the entire outage, but in the My Status page (login required). Just a note for the Aussie readers: there’s been a problem on the ‘net for the last 24 or so hours. We can reach some pages but not others. It seems to be a problem with Telstra POIs. I’ve been on the phone with Telstra BigPond cable but besides the usual – restart router etc – they are at Continue Reading…

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Vertical Search statistics

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Apr 062007
 

Sticking it here on blog because I don’t want to lose it again: $7.4 billion was spent on search engine marketing in 2005 (16% of which was business-to-business). More than 40% of the average marketer’s budget is devoted to search. Nearly 38% of Yahoo’s advertisers are defined as b-to-b. More than 50% of Google’s target advertisers are b-to-b. Nearly 64% of search engine users search for business information first. From Jupiter Research? quoted on Wikipedia. Tags: search, web 3.0, vertical, Jupiter, wikipedia, statistics

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Google Sight Seeing (maps)

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Apr 062007
 

My new addiction is googlesightseeing – why bother seeing the world for real? – people send him Google satellite images of people and places around the earth doing crazy things. One of a guy peeing in the desert in Africa (thrilling discussion here), “keeping up with the Joneses” (rows and rows of long piers in Texas), whale-spotting, and monitoring where Google uses *stock* imagery (such as the pre-hurricane Katrina images of New Orleans fiasco that broke last week). There’s a physical hardcopy book called Off the Map. Perhaps Big Brother Road Tour would be more appropriate? EDIT (TO BE MORE Continue Reading…

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Finally! Google’s April Fool’s Joke

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Apr 062007
 

Every year, those scallywags at Google come up with some piece of silliness for April Fool’s. Last year it was a UFO embedded in Google Earth’s Area 51 map. This year it’s TiSP – Toilet Internet Service Provider. And who says Australian Broadband connections have to be sh… On a marketing note, it’s fascinating that once your brand is well established, you can play around with it like this. The look and feel of the TiSP site is very Google, with a few calculated errors to indicate that it’s not kosher. The community group has about 5000 posts. Goodness knows Continue Reading…

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UGC = User Generated Content errr Cans

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Apr 052007
 

Design our Pepsican but only if you are an American. The rest of the world doesn’t drink Pepsi? Hmmm why are some competitions at least partly global and the rest not? No writing naughty things. Unless you download the EPS file I guess. No community. You can see what other users have created but you can’t vote, rate, rank, comment or otherwise interact. This is still a one-2-one campaign (consumer to company), not the many to many ideal… I see opportunities for an anti-site springing up. Anyone wanna help? :p Oh and it won’t be in flash, like this site… Continue Reading…

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Jakob Nielsen – 90:9:1 Rule

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Apr 052007
 

from Dr. Jakob Nielsen UseIt.com: Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute Summary: In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action. It depends, it depends, it depends… (on size and purpose mainly). Oh and he says don’t use graphics on your site, which is an old rule for the same old reason – people with slow bandwidth. I don’t know about that one – my members usually aren’t on dial-up… EDIT: cos the long tail of blog content is catching Continue Reading…

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Naked CSS Day – nekkid community? o.O

 Social Media Australia, social networks  2 Responses »
Apr 052007
 

I am going to warn y’all now. I am outraged that a community would go naked on the ‘net. Even for a good cause. What will the children think? Besides, it’s alright for developers of web pages to get down and dirrrty (with their web pages), but what do developers of communities do? No. Do NOT answer that: happy naked day! Well, we’re back from last year, and Naked Day ’07 is taking the web to full nudity on April 5th. Where did my Design go? The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This Continue Reading…

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Paul Budde Australia Social Networks & User Generated Content

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Apr 042007
 

Buddecom released their Social Networks & UGC – Analysis (Australia) report a couple of days ago. It’s from a roundtable discussion – the panel on March 1st were: Pippa Leary – Product and Marketing Director, News and Information – Fairfax Digital Tom Kennedy, Director Digital Strategy, Legion Interactive Anna Daniel, PriceWaterhouseCoopers Nigel Dews, CEO 3 Australia The report costs $USD40. If you read this blog or similar Social Network ones, you won’t need the report and there are some well, inanities, in it. “Looking at YouTube and BitTorrent, I am pretty sure that the video market could well be the Continue Reading…

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Apr 032007
 

Do you Twitter? If you do, you may enjoy this: How to Avoid the ‘Twitter Tax’ When I mentioned three hidden dangers of Twitter, one of the things I mentioned was the hidden cost of text messages. Here’s a more in-depth look at the problem and how to get around this ‘Twitter Tax’. A few days ago, The Consumerist noted the following, Verizon and other cellphone companies mark up the cost of text messages by at least 7314% when compared to their rates for data transfer services. According to their calculations, Verizon’s max text message size is 160 characters. At Continue Reading…

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MyCyberTwin and alternate personalities

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Apr 032007
 

Thanks to fellow Moon Goddess (don’t ask!) Louise for notifying me of an article in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald NEXT section: An Australian company has begun populating cyberspace with artificially intelligent “cyber-twins” of bloggers, social networkers and even corporate PR. MyCyberTwin is a new venture from the team that took on the giants of search with its personalised Mooter search engine. A couple of years ago I blogged about ALICE – and asked the question: A wierd form of avatar, more AI than usual – not sure what to make of this one… Well I guess MyCyberTwin knew exactly what Continue Reading…

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