CSIRO Votapedia – surveys run on wiki

 Social Media Australia, Wiki  2 Responses »
May 202007
 

We spent waaaay too much time giggling with Ken at CeBIT. He was the guy mooching around on the CSIRO votapedia stand. Votapedia is run on Mediawiki. You set up the survey and then people can ring in to vote using their mobiles . They get the busy tone when they vote, so they don’t pay for the call. Here’s the latest survey: This is an optical illusion but not every one sees it the same way. We are endeavouring to discover what proportion of the population see it which way. After voting you can look at the answer. The Continue Reading…

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ABC Radio National Background Briefing

 Media, Politics, Social Media Australia, web 2.0  No Responses »
May 192007
 

This might be an interesting one for you ABC Radio Background Briefing fans out there. Or even podcast listeners, as it has magically turned into a podcast : Politics and the Internet Listen Now – 20052007 | No one really knows if the Internet will be a force for a new kind of democracy, or just another (albeit miraculous) technology. Shifting sands in demography, voter behaviour, and the world wide web, are all challenges for political campaigners. Pitfalls and successes abound. Reporter Sharona Coutts. Presenter Sharona CouttsProducer Sharona Coutts Sunday 9amrepeated Tuesdays 7pm http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2007/1924783.htm Some of the stuff mentioned: Dr Continue Reading…

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w00t! go lads! Start Up Stories, Australia

 blogs, Media  6 Responses »
May 192007
 

The Age (Fairfax) has brought on board some groovy guys to spruce up their bloggy offerings: Welcome to the world of the Australian web start-up. Whether it’s building a media empire, pioneering the latest technologies or putting the social into software, Australia is buzzing with internet entrepreneurship. Who’ll break the bank and who’ll go bust? Is the next Google being conceived in a garage in Burwood or is it just another bubble? Start up stories is contributed to by Marty Wells of Tangler, Nik Cubrilovic of Omnidrive, Peter Styles of RedBubble, Ben Barren of Feedcorp and Cameron Reilly of The Continue Reading…

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Event: CU07 Helen Coonan etc keynotes

 blogs, Event, Not For Profit, Politics  1 Response »
May 182007
 

EDIT (cos I forgot there are non-Australians out there who wander into this blog) Senator Helen Coonan, Federal Minister for umm telecommunications and umm IT things, keynoted at a small conference CommunIT (Not for Profit IT) conference in small-town Adelaide, South Australia on BroadBand for Rural Australia. She spoke and left with no question-time. Ack, I should’ve written this up earlier when it was all fresh and pumping. Is that why blogs are so darn addictive? Anyway, here goes. Politics have to change the way they “use” conferences and events to launch their bits of paper. I’m serious. Preaching to Continue Reading…

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Job: Drupal with E. W. Scripps

 Jobs, Media, social networks  1 Response »
May 182007
 

from GirlJournalist on Drupal.org: Employment type: Contract Telecommute: Allowed E.W. Scripps, a media company with a record of success in developing new initiatives is developing several new websites. We are looking for an experienced developer to work on a full-time contract basis with the innovations group of the Newspaper Interactive division. To be chosen for this project, developer(s) must have proven experience using Drupal 5.x and related modules and themes for: – Building highly customized, production-volume websites, with performance enhancements applied, such as Drupal caching and throttling. more here. In addition, demonstrated abilities in rapid web development in LAMP (Linux, Continue Reading…

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dotSub and the fourth Social Sector

 Online Communities, social networks, user generated content  2 Responses »
May 182007
 

I’m rather taken with dotSub.com – post up a video and the community subtitles it for you. I’m not sure why it is so fascinating. Perhaps it’s just the thought of some guy in Italy or some girl in Russia viewing my footage and then interpreting it for me. Which brings me to a point I have thought about a few times in the last few years and that was sort-of brought up at the not-for-profit conference I went to earlier this week, CommunIT CU07. Its this: there are no longer only 3 sectors in mixed and capitalist economies – Continue Reading…

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Apple 0 Blogosphere 1 – bogus iPhone email

 blogs, Marketing  6 Responses »
May 162007
 

Copied wholesale from TechCrunch because TechCrunch has all that fibre goodness your blog needs: Engadget Knocks $4 billion off Apple Market Cap on Bogus iPhone email Michael Arrington 42 comments » What a day for Apple investors. The stock started off strong today on a lot of pre-market buying, despite news that Amazon will finally start competing on sales of DRM-free music. Then, whoops, at 11:49 AM EST Engadget posted saying that the iPhone and Leopard operating system launches would be seriously delayed. They based the story on an internal Apple email that was forwarded to them. The original post: Continue Reading…

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Joost receives £22.6m in VC funding

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May 162007
 

From NMA: Internet TV service Joost has acquired $45m (£22.6m) in venture capital. Five separate parties invested in the service, which launched commercially last week. Among the investors are Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CSB Corporation and Viacom. CBS has already contributed more than 2,000 hours of content to the service including news and popular TV shows CSI and Survivor. Viacom also contributed content from its properties MTV, VH1 and Paramount Pictures. Each investor will take a minority percentage of Joost. The figures are in pounds cos I got them from NMA (UK). Technorati Tags: TV, venture Continue Reading…

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Virtual Worlds: SecondLife and abilities

 Event, virtual world  2 Responses »
May 152007
 

I met a soulmate at Connecting Up 2007 CISA conference in Adelaide – David N Wallace. We had a semi-heated discussion about blogs (they ARE SO 1-2-many!) and then rolled our collective eyes at AUCDs renewed push to create artificial Sensis-sponsored communities around geo-locales. More on that later. Checking out his personal blog and then his other one, I found a link to this article from EurekaStreet about SecondLife and people with disabilities. Which was coincidental because I had a discussion about the good bad and ugly re: virtual world and abilities/disabilities with someone annoying recently. I was trying to Continue Reading…

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Sshhh Secret! Google URL minus Adword

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May 152007
 

Don’t tell anyone. Promise? A ‘secret’ Google URL displays search results minus AdWords adsAmit Agarwal, while writing on his blog Digital Inspiration, has mentioned of a ‘secret’ Google Search URL that prevents the search results page from displaying any AdWords ads that are otherwise seen on the top and right sections of the Google web pages. Knowing that Google makes most of its money from displaying AdWords ads, it would be interesting to see how Google deals with this ‘secret’ URL that could potentially make an adverse impact on its revenue. http://www.google.com/search?output=googleaboutheh. Don’t sue me, sue AlooTechie. kthnxbai Technorati Tags: Continue Reading…

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Job: PHP with Joomla or Drupal

 Jobs, Social Media Australia, social networks  5 Responses »
May 142007
 

Social Network developer (Joomla! or Drupal) – actually, some people take Joomla and Drupal and just use it as a CMS, disabling the community features. If you talk to ‘em, let us know if that is the case? :p Employment type: Contract Telecommute: Not allowed A great opportunity with a dynamic, well established and growing web development agency (Sydney). We are looking for an experienced PHP developer (Sydney-based) to fulfill a 1 month on-site contract developing a new CMS based web project for a large, well-known client. There is real potential for extension to work on another 3 month contract. Continue Reading…

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Flower Fields B&B McLaren Vale

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May 132007
 

Well, I’ve been staying in McLaren Vale, South Australia at Flower Fields. The cottage is unbelievably PINK but still, quite restful. Janet is the owner and she is very chatty. VERY. CHATTY. The Flower Fields, McLaren Vale, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia The Flower Fields, McLaren Vale, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia BTW apparently TreeHugger job (below), can be done remotely. Hyatt, Adelaide tomorrow – for the CommunIT conference. If you are in Adelaide, stop by and say hello. Or ring me, 0432684992 so we can have a coffee. Cheerio. (PS not doing much with email at the moment, so don’t fret Continue Reading…

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Job: TreeHugger Looking for Webmaster/Software Engineer

 Event, Jobs  No Responses »
May 102007
 

Coolest job ad evah? It’s in New York – Aussies, remember we have a special Australian-only Green Card (E-3) status with the US. w00t! Hat tip: Grant Young, DigitalEskimo TreeHugger Looking for Webmaster/Software Engineer by Team Treehugger, Worldwide on 05.10.07 TH Exclusives Here is a great opportunity to combine your career goals with your life values and join a great team. TreeHugger, the leading website dedicated to helping individuals lead a sustainable life, is looking for a full time Webmaster/Software Engineer. We are looking for that rare individual who can work with customize pre-packaged applications as well as develop custom Continue Reading…

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Job – Digital Relationship Manager

 Jobs, user generated content  No Responses »
May 092007
 

I personally wouldn’t bother with this one. But it showed up under Web 2.0 (god knows why, except that blog makes a slim mention): Digital Relationship Manager/Distribution Manager/Digital Strategy/Online Sydney | S2M Stepping stone to Online Editor. Phenomenal Opportunity. This role is offering 90K -100K+ for the right candidate. Large Media Organisation. APPLY NOW Digital Relationship Manager/Distribution Manager Salary range – 90K -100K+ super Negotiating Deals, Developing Business and Commercial models Personable, Communicative, Team Player Our client is undergoing a rapid growth phase and now requires an experienced relationship manager to maximise their distribution channels and thus increase traffic and Continue Reading…

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G’day Google California from Cheeky Australia

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May 072007
 

Never let it be said that I don’t follow through. I blogged the other day about Google having a G’Day California in GooglePlex US to attract employees to come to Australia to work. It’s all happening at 6-9pm today Mountain View California time. I think that’s about 7am to 10am tomorrow our time. Don’t take my word for it though – my ability to do time zone conversions is about as good as my ability take direction and read maps and keep my mouth shut and … : Or is there something we could do online at that time (6-9pm Continue Reading…

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