Tech & Innovation
News, opinions and advice on technology development and the state of innovation.
The 10 Dumbest Business Moments for 2009. It’s time to vote!
Two weeks ago, we asked our readers to help us assemble our annual Dumb Report, a selection of Australian goofs, gaffs and groaners from...
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 Mac (aka MacTablet aka TabletMac aka iPad aka Apple Slate). But this concept piece put together by design collective BERG certainly has wow factor.
If you like Funniest Home Videos (but are too ashamed to admit it), you're...
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 websites, FailBlog.org. This is one media outlet that you don't ever want to be known for appearing on. (There are better ways to experience your 15 minutes of fame.) Enjoy and happy festive season Anthillians!
If you like Funniest Home Videos (but are too ashamed to admit it), you’re...
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 websites, FailBlog.org. This is one media outlet that you don't ever want to be known for appearing on. (There are better ways to experience your 15 minutes of fame.) Enjoy and happy festive season Anthillians!
Eco and person friendly wheel with smarts
With the world's environmental attention firmly focused on the emmison-cutting wrangling taking place at COP15, it couldn't have been a better opportunity for the brains from the SENSEable City Lab at MIT to showcase their eco-friendly 'smart' innovation -- the Copenhagen Wheel.
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian explains how one humpback whale rose to Web stardom
In this funny, rapid-fire 4 minute clip, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web stardom.
The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is must-see for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age.
5 key web analytics predictions for 2010
Web analytics company Webtrends has forecast what it sees as the five key trends in the web analytics industry for 2010.
Google goggles (so much better than beer goggles)
Ever since Google started spruiking its mobile operating system Android in 2007 (alongside the formation of the Open Handset Alliance), speculation has raged that Google would one-day release its own stand-alone handset to compete directly with the iPhone. So far, that hasn't happened.
Six emerging technologies receive more than $442k of COMET grants
With only a couple more weeks before the COMET program closes (to be replaced with the Commercialisation Australia program), it has been announced that six emerging technologies have received grants totaling $442,400, or $70,400 each.
Why Seth Godin is the master of 'sharable' (Anthill's first rule of online marketing)
We all now realise that it's not what you say about your product or company that matters. It's what your customers say. Marketers and business owners can no longer control their message by sheer volume of advertising. We also now understand that a quality idea, concept, tool, product or service can receive unprecedented exposure, at little or no marketing cost, if its owners understand the value of making it possible for others to share it.
Why Seth Godin is the master of ‘sharable’ (Anthill’s first rule of online marketing)
We all now realise that it's not what you say about your product or company that matters. It's what your customers say. Marketers and business owners can no longer control their message by sheer volume of advertising. We also now understand that a quality idea, concept, tool, product or service can receive unprecedented exposure, at little or no marketing cost, if its owners understand the value of making it possible for others to share it.
The Great Escape – How Australian exporters survived and even thrived in the GFC
It was widely predicted that 2009 was going to be the year that hit the first world economies the hardest when it came to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). And for many it did just that. Australia, however, managed to weather the worst of it. Tim Harcourt reports on Australia’s strong export industry and showcases some shining examples of Australian exporters growing in these turbulent times.
Are you a modern day information broker? If so, that could make you a...
Profits have always been made by those organisations that owned the most attention. What's changing now is that it's much, much easier to acquire some of that ownership. Called ‘Streams of Content’, the presentation likens the flow of information in modern society to a stream.
Top 5 business tips for surviving the holiday slowdown
The December and January period is normally a slow time for small-to-medium sized businesses, with most customers on holidays, suppliers operating on skeleton staff and budgets on hold. The Interface Financial Group’s David Hechter offers his top five tips for surviving the Christmas slowdown.
Who are the 100 most influential business people in Australia? No one I'd rate.
It's probably the many hours I've spent over the past week researching (and rabble rousing) in aid of our annual Dumb Report, but I couldn't help reading Fairfax's Top 100 Most Influential People with more than the usual requisite amount of cynicism.
Who are the 100 most influential business people in Australia? No one I’d rate.
It's probably the many hours I've spent over the past week researching (and rabble rousing) in aid of our annual Dumb Report, but I couldn't help reading Fairfax's Top 100 Most Influential People with more than the usual requisite amount of cynicism.
Is your company culture driving talent out the door?
December is a time when many people pause to contemplate how fulfilled they are in their current professional role and size up a potential move in the new year. A decisive and often overlooked factor in this consideration is company culture -- a magic ingredient for employers and employees alike. Persephone Nicholas reports.
Fear and hope at Copenhagen – a Gen Y perspective (pt 2)
Last week Wendy Miller provided her first review of the proceedings at COP15 in Copenhagen. At the start of another week of tense negotiating, Miller reports on the current make-or-break state of the summit and reveals what is being lost and gained.
Wales offers free 12 months office and support packages for Australian tech companies expanding...
Promising Australian technology companies seeking lower-risk entry to UK and European markets are being offered up to 12 months free accommodation in Welsh innovation centres in a new 'try before you buy' initiative.
Is this the new Apple Mac Tablet or a clever fake?
This clip, currently doing the viral circuit, is supposedly of a new Apple Tablet (aka MacTablet aka TabletMac aka iPad aka Apple Slate, etc.).
However, the clickerati have not yet decided whether to hail it as an exciting leak or a very clever fake. Either way, we hope something like it will be coming to a Mac store sometime soon. It's Awe-some! (And makes Amazon's Kindle look like a poorly crafted children's toy.)
