Well, this sucks. From AsiaMedia. AUSTRALIA: Web 2.0? Don’t bank on it just yet Australian banks won’t provide latest online financial services, such as wikis or peer-to-peer lending, due to lack of infrastructure and low retention rates of skilled IT staff AUSTRALIAN bank infrastructure is “not robust enough” to deliver secure web 2.0 banking and…
Bit of a silly article from The Times: Facebook suicide: the end of a virtual life Can online friendships ruin real-life relationships? Some users of a very popular social networking site believe so – and that’s why they’re taking drastic action, says Emma Justice Stephanie Painter’s death was swift and painless. At 9.10pm on February…
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?…
Condy over at the State Gov had this to say about Muhammad Yunus winning the Nobel Peace Prize: Statement on Nobel Peace Prize Recipients Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC October 13, 2006 I wish to extend my warmest congratulations to the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipients from Bangladesh, Dr….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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