Anthill Magazine

The proposed Australian R&D tax reforms… Do they walk the talk?

This article is the third in our Australia Day series. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be taking a close look at Commercialisation Australia, our track record as a nation of innovators and whether our legislation is aligned with the needs of the private sector. ...

Debate rages at Mumbrella/Anthill Online Marketing by Design in Sydney last night — #mumhill feed

There were plenty of great insights and conversations about marketing and social media shared at last night’s Online Marketing By Design event held at the Shelbourne Hotel in Sydney, co-hosted by Mumbrella and Anthill Magazine. We videoed proceedings and will be posting the best bits on ...

Can Australia really claim to be a nation of innovators?

This article is the second in our Australia Day series. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be taking a close look at Commercialisation Australia, the proposed R&D tax incentive reforms and how these reforms match (or conflict) with the political language used to promote them. ...

Australian Innovation Policy… Where the bloody hell are you?

Every government will say its ‘commitment to innovation’ is second-to-none. Every government will jump at the chance to demonstrate this ‘commitment’, citing numerous initiatives that invariably trump those of the administration that came before it. This is because the effects of policy on innovation are extremely hard ...

How I made Twitter my ‘dirty whore’ and got suspended

I can not count the number of posts I have read on how to profit from Twitter. It seems that everyone has a theory, except the good people at Twitter, of course, who have yet to develop their own revenue model. Most advice that I have ...

Anthill print back issues in the bargain basement basket already? That didn’t take long.

When we made the difficult decision last year to cease printing regular editions of Anthill Magazine and look to the digital future, we consoled ourselves with the knowledge that loyal subscribers had their well-thumbed back-issue archives (resting on mantles in pool rooms around Australia and beyond) ...

2016 ‘millennium’ glitch delivers text messages from the future

We’d barely concluded our 2009 Dumb Report rankings earlier this week when the Twittersphere lit up with reports that a “sizeable” number of Bank of Queensland and BankWest ATM and eftpos machines had malfunctioned due to an internal glitch of ‘millennium’ proportions. An internal clock in ...

Anthill named Australia’s “most engaging” media site, according to Audit Bureaux of Australia

As part of our big transformation from print to online media we opened our ‘digital books’ (i.e. our web traffic numbers) to two of Australia’s leading digital auditing services – Nielsen Online Ratings and the Audit Bureaux of Australia (ABA). (You can’t improve what you can’t ...

Is this what the magazine of the future will look like… again?

Over the past two weeks, we have published the Sun Newspaper’s parody of the iPhone ads (and other mobile alternatives to print newspapers), Time Inc’s prediction of what magazines of the future might look like and a fake (or real) leak of Apple’s new Tablet ...

If you like Funniest Home Videos (but are too ashamed to admit it), you’re gonna love this. Happy holidays Anthilians!

Okay. Because it’s the last Friday before we all switch off and get some well earned R&R, we’ve decided to break from tradition and post a couple of video clips that are completely unrelated to business and innovation. They hail from one of our favourite ...