Archive for October 2008

I just came across this new Amazon WindowShop on Gizmodo it’s the most amazing online shopping experience I’ve ever seen!! (OK, I’m a girl & I love shopping, but this is something else). Gizmodo describe it as “a collection of their most popular movies, books, music and other media arranged in a huge 3D grid, [...]

Recording artist, Muscles has decided to delete his MySpace page in protest at the new Music Player on MySpace. Muscles says “They’ve just done a deal with the 4 BIGGEST RECORD LABELS in the world, to SHARE PROFITS of ADVERTISING REVENUE that myspace brings in everytime you CLICK on my page and your own.”
Until there [...]

As religion plays less of a role in our busy lives and technology an increasingly important role, this question certainly made me laugh. Read on for nine cheeky proof points on why Google is God. You can read Google prayers, Church of Google hate mail, read the Ten Commandments of Google and subscribe for the [...]

Jason Van Genderen’s beautiful Aussie short film recently won New York Tropfest. It was shot entirely on mobile. It’s a 3.5 minute film about Sydney and New York’s homeless and cost a whopping $57 to produce. More about the film here.

Here’s another example of a large corporate’s involvement in the social media space. This time Naprogesic has attempted to create a branded social network, very badly it seems.
The main criticism seems to be the lack of collaberation with existing communities in this space. “Collaborate. Consult. Then create.” Read The Wardrobe Channel’s summary of 5 mistakes [...]

I’ve seen a few articles today reporting on Obama’s campaign appearing in an Xbox 360 video game and I’m really impressed by this savvy politician’s use of digital media assets to reach a wider audience of American voters.
A visit to the official Obama website invites Americans to tell Obama more about themselves so he can [...]

I just came across Dell’s new blog Digital Nomads. I like the fact that Dell are trying to help start conversations between digital nomads to help them out.
Digital Nomad contributor, Bruce Eric Anderson spoke with Jake McKee at TechCrunch about the issue of baggage when you’re travelling regularly & has suggestions on how he’s overcome [...]

In celebration of their 10th birthday Google has reactivated it’s search page from January 2001 when the engine searched a paltry 1,326,920,000 pages (it’s over 10 billion today). Take a minute to look around and you will see favorites like Digg, Flickr and Twitter are nowhere to be seen. 

Running in Great Britain since 2006, the concept of eDemocracy lets voters keep a closer eye on their parliamentary representatives by monitoring their online activity. Brought to Australia by GetUp under the banner of Project Democracy users can also access Senate speeches, bios, and media reports about a chosen senator then view and contribute to forums. I [...]