Just a quick update from my other blog post ( peer to peer lending in australia): New peer-to-peer lending websites starting up in Australia Lenders and borrowers set the terms of the loans P2P lending could be worth $5bn globally within three years P2P in Australia First to market in Australia is Sydney-based iGrin which softly launched www.igrin.com.au in October. It has recently brokered Australia’s first online P2P loan, worth $5000. It will be joined soon by Brisbane-based Peermint which will operate in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In New Zealand, www.nexx.co.nz has announced it will be up and running Continue Reading…
Overtures of Philip K. Dick I believe: Continuing what’s becoming a Springwise theme, another brand has popped up in the virtual realm of Second Life. This time it’s Telus, Canada’s second largest telco, who opened a store in the sim of Shinda last week. Telus is both the first major Canadian corporation, and the first major telecommunications company to enter SL. Unlike Aloft Hotel and American Apparel‘s store, which are both located on privately owned islands, Telus set up shop in a downtown area on SL’s mainland (visit location). According to 3pointD, the telco’s foray into Second Life was initiated Continue Reading…
If peer2peer marketing/advertising spells disaster for traditional media, and doctors are shirty about peer2peer health support, what do you think the banks will do with peer2peer banking???!!?? (From the Orlando Sentinel’s Richard Burnett). People in search of loans are finding deals through online auctions Turned away and turned off by conventional banks, Jerry R. Brown plugged into an online lending network in search of a financial boost for his Osceola County business. Brown is among thousands of Americans surfing the latest wave in Internet commerce: peer-to-peer banking, a grass-roots-type phenomenon that matches borrowers and lenders in an online-auction format. Lend Continue Reading…
Jun 282006
No, not you silly. NBC I mean.In December last year, YouTube broke away from its competitors (such as iFilm) by showing stuff from Saturday Night Live. NBC came along and asked them to remove the SNL and Olympics clips. Uh Oh I hear you say. Yes, we nearly had a Napster on our hands with YouTube. But the TV/video industry is quicker on the uptake than the music industry. Look at what happened yesterday! NBC jumping into bed with YouTube is like, well, Coca Cola and U2 pulling up the covers with Negativland. Oh wait. They did that! Press Releases Continue Reading…
I spent some time fishing around for an example of a newspaper of the *future*. Well ok the future ain’t here yet and nor is the technology, not fully but there are some good attempts. I have covered a few user generated newspapers in the past; today lets look at Greensboro101 .com (Citizen’s media) as an interesting example of the genre. Featured blogsThis online newspaper has as its front page a discriminating featured blogs section, while feeds from these blogs make up the main content. Not a massive list of all blogs in the GEO tag area, but a handful Continue Reading…
Off to Slattery’s tomorrow night and I’m really looking forward to hearing Mark Pesce speak. I haven’t read any of his books – it’s really bloomin’ hard to find them – but I have listened to hyperpeople. All 40 minutes of it, several times through (there’s still bits I’m struggling with). I would’ve paid for that content by the way. Ok, maybe not up front as I had always assumed the guru of VRML would be a geeky nerd who talks in a monotone. (Hmmm You’ve had to sit still and listen to that type too, admit it). But paying Continue Reading…
Oct 282005
Disruptive? us? At a Churchill Club event on October 26, 2005, Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO at Sun was interviewed by Quentin Hardy, Silicon Valley bureau chief as Forbes. You can download the audio of the one-hour interview here. Schwartz reprises his usual, and perceptive, themes touting Sun’s vision and prejudices, such as how volume in the marketplace matters; the changing business landscape in which eBay could become a bank; Java as a platform for digital rights management; the disruptive influence of free software and online communities; IBM’s reluctant support, and validation, for OpenSolaris on its blade servers; why Google Continue Reading…
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