Not Australia: social networks on mobile

Americans have all-you-can-eat bandwidth to their mobile phones for around 30 bucks a month right? (Mobile Business Magazine) As Facebook, Bebo and eBay top the popularity charts on Vodafone Mobile Internet, Vodafone UK has today changed the way it structures its price plans to include access to the internet and email on their mobile as…

Oral Tradition, Pastiche, The Mashup and Copyright

Human beings take information and media, consume it, mash it up and spew it back out again, it’s what we do. We have a fine tradition of nicking each others content from the earliest times of tribal campfires, embroidering hunter and warriors stories and oral traditions, through to Plato deliberately putting his own words in…

Optus myZoo Beta

Martin Dalgleish of PBL was chatting on at CBD Hotel the other night. He recommended we go have a look at beta.optuszoo.com.au – the JV between Optus and NineMSN. In lieu of anything else to do – well, I have to cook some sausages, but they can wait – I’m over there right now. Multitasking…

Inside Outside and Round and Round

Lots and lots on the ‘net recently about Google Research into “Social- and Interactive-Television Applications Based on Real-Time Ambient-Audio Identification” and how we would feel about Google listening into our real-life arguments and offering ads for marriage counselling. Oh ok, I admit, I haven’t actually seen that particular point being made, but I’m sure someone…

A Good Read (blogwise)

I picked up the book by blogger Belle de Jour around Xmas. Interesting account of a London call girl. Very amusing and a little sad. An “at the coalface” account of the ins and outs of the sex trade. Because of her blog, Belle has won awards, the publishing contract, and now writes a column…

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