
Last week I sat in a café biding time (working) before meeting a client in Sydney’s Martin Place. I sat next to the window to see if I could get my wireless 'broadband' to give me anything other than a snail’s paced connection, and ended up watching a Greenpeace staffer intercepting innocent passers by. This is ...
On a tour of the favela in Brazil early this year I was intrigued by the idea of community justice which was dealt out in these towns. If they found out that someone had murdered/raped/stolen from someone in the favela instead of going to the police, they would find them and the community would decide his fate. I ...
The next time someone approaches me asking why Hippo doesn’t have a Facebook application I swear to God Almighty I will end their ignorant little lives, throttled by network cable left over from an age that negated walking through the office, laptop in palm, smirks all around. All you traditional media types, listen ...
New media is increasingly putting branding in the hands of consumers, says Jacqueline Burns. The year is 2007. The era is the Age of Conversation. Having survived several decades of mass media-channelled monologues, brands are at last engaging in two-way dialogue with consumers. Whether brands like it or not, new ...
Linda Hayes takes a look at some of the best (and worst) branded sites on the web. My favourite website is www.pedigree.com.au. This might not be unusual, except for the fact that I don't own a dog. And I will not be buying a dog in the near future. So why do I like it? My daughter wants a dog and we regularly go ...
Friendster was the MySpace of yesterday, however it fell behind due to its arrogance and complacency towards users. Will MySpace follow? In 2001, a US entrepreneur came up with the idea of creating a website that would echo the real-world way people meet – through their friends. In August 2002, the site went live, ...