In Sydney Thurs eve, fed up of late night shopping? Hopefully you will come along and argue the case for the web is not a creative space? Or perhaps that there is something more fundamental happening?
DebateIT: All the web’s a stage!
Join us as we debate whether the internet is helping unleash creativity. What opportunities are [...]
The 1968 cult classic, Night of the Living Dead is being remade or “reanimated” in a first for the film industry.
Mike Schneider one of the project coordinaters and lead animator explains:
“Night of the Living Dead Reanimated is a mass collaborative re-envisioning in which artists from around the world select scenes from the original 1968 film [...]
Another report looking at Australian media usage patterns in the wake of broadband has been released. You can download the report here. I caught Julian Thomas, one of the authors of this CCI report on the ABC’s Media Report this week and you can read the transcript here.
One of the most interesting things reported was [...]
Nice but relatively random Spaghetti Code sculpture image: George Hart Computer Science Department NY
Heard this on “Heritage Media” channel 702 ABC (AM!) Radio Sydney this morning. Deborah Cameron was interviewing Ben Eggleton of Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) a consortium between five Australian universities: The University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University [...]
Courtesy of Michael Ball:
“Is there a market for feature-length films on the mobile phone?” I asked Tomas Gewecke, new President of Digital Distribution for Warner Bros., at the US Mobile Entertainment Forum Conference MEFCON last week.
You’d think, by the audience reaction, that I just confessed to running over his dog.
Warner cut a deal recently with [...]
There has been a lot in the news recently of serious VC funding for Serious Games. This one reported by TechCrunch from Lumos Labs called Lumosity which got a smooth $3m is typical of the current rush. The robust business model for ‘improvement games’ echoes some of my 1990s research into business models around ‘old [...]
New technologies focusing on the convergence of TV and community continue to turn watching TV into a social activity. The connected TV experience is aimed at providing remote users with a joint viewing experience - chat, vote, comment, or just watch your favorite shows with other fans or distant friends.
The idea of transforming an experience [...]
A much publicised patent application published in December 2007 revealed that Apple had explored allowing handheld owners (such as the iPhone) to place orders from local stores. The system would, for example, allow customers to order a drink with the press of a button on their iPhone which would then notify them when their order [...]
The following clip you are about to see has a Ripley’s Believe it or Not feeling to it. Apparently its straight unedited footage taken from the CCTV of Raffles Place Tower building in Singapore.
It was posted on the internet a few weeks ago and like a piece of viral media, has completely overwhelmed the asian [...]
Natalie Spence flicked over some Flickr in-the-know this morning. It’s an article from Flickr’s George Oates on their experience building and cultivating their online community. A thread includes minimising the ‘rules’ and allowing users to tangle, mangle and get creative with the given infrastrucure.
“People don’t like being told what to do. We like to explore, change things around, [...]
LonelyGirl15 actress Jessica Rose is making a comeback to the computer-screen with a new web series called Blood Cell,produced by digital studio 60Frames. This new series is not a faked vlog but a well-produced murder mystery. Part of the current onslaught of professionally produced web content with a hyper-syndication (the viral distribution of content through [...]
The LAMP team have been packing up our offices at AFTRS in North Ryde in preparation for the big move into our new building at Sydney’s Fox Studios. In the process, a lot of paper, DVD’s and CD-R’s have gone into the wheelie bins and we’re hoping that in future we’ll be accumulating a lot [...]
This is the first of a 4 part report, by Michael Ball, who attended this years CTIA Wireless Media Conference in Las Vegas this week. As his furthur reports come in, Ill post them up for you.
let’s start with some intriguing stats: According to the panelists–which included mobile execs from MTV Networks, Discovery Channel, MobiTV, [...]
An interesting video with the creators of the new pilot web site from Carnegie Mellon University, called Spongecell. Spongecell. brings together the interactivity of social networking to product marketing and promotion campaigns. An interesting example was the Yari Film Group in the USA..
Yari Film Group sees 40% opt-in
“We wanted to promote our movie “Final Season” [...]
Walt Mossberg, the Wall Streets Journal very well connected editor of “All Things Digital”, was invited to the Finnish Embassy in Washington DC this week for a talk organised by Andy Plesser of beet.tv fame.
His comments on the future of online media is extremely interesting especially his comments on slow broadband. He also dropped a [...]
