Australian Big Brother have run into some problems – profile security, uploads to YouTube, audience members streaming content to fansites, and 3mobile revealing the new housemates ahead of time. Except for the security issue, none of it will impact the audience numbers and will probably increase it. Set the information free and all that user…
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…
From Ethos – I’m going to assume it’ s this Ethos link, as I found the job on Seek.com.au (as usual, can’t link to crappy seek.com.au): User Generated Content (UGC) – Technology Manager Major Web-Digital Investment Area Unify and integrate – build a UGC centre of excellence Most Exciting Opportunity in the Industry This global…
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks pixel deep in reports on TV- subscription, pay, SMS, IP, download,upload and what not. From Paul Budde to Reeltime to EroticStarSearch to What’s New. Off to the Astra conference and the So You Want your own TV Station panel. Listening to Kim Williams on Foxtel, John Porter on…
AlooTechie put me on to this little slap-a-rama between Wired who claim Yahoo! could of won against Google in the early days and Wired pulls no punches, no sirree. Here’s the Wired article and here’s Yahoo’s response. The key to me was this paragraph: Terry Semel — a legendary Hollywood dealmaker, a guy who didn’t…
Hello my dahlings – I’m in Kuala Lumpur etc. this week (a bit unexpected). I sorta stuffed up the PIN on my mobile voicemail. Why do these things always happen when travelling, hmmm? Anyway should have it fixed soon, SMS me if urgent. I’ll tell you more when I get back. Promise!
I know I know, I haven’t abandoned you, dear reader. Have a squiz at this and tell me what you think: 4INFO Mobile Search Blog: 4INFO Mission Movers = Community-based SMS 4INFO announced today a partnership with Mission Movers Group, a marketing innovation firm, to provide The Rainier Chamber with the first community controlled text…
Strange how some things change and others stay the same. We now have an old guard in Internet and they resist change fairly strongly. Particularly if they didn’t see it coming. I fell over this article in SMH today – Teenage habits – and was, well, gobsmacked at Paul McIntyre’s predictions for World Internet Project’s…
Julian Lee at The Sydney Morning Herald had this to say: DOES the launch of Channel Ten’s service allowing viewers to SMS, MMS or email live video footage, pictures and text messages direct to its newsroom herald the start of a boom in user-generated content? Based on a trial during this week’s cyclone in Queensland…