Tag: New Media

Mick and other bloggers weren't impressed with this "spammy" contact, and made that clear. So Publicis Mojo had another crack, sending him a package. Mick deceided to capture his impressions of this second marketing effort by videoing the grand opening in the form of a review.

Now comes Add-Art, a Firefox plugin that not only blocks display ads but replaces them with curated art images. On first hearing about Add-Art I conjured a mental image of a zen-like, ad-free digital nirvana (angels singing, people dressed in white playing lutes, bunches of grapes scattered around). But don't expect Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Van Gogh.

Now comes Add-Art, a Firefox plugin that not only blocks display ads but replaces them with curated art images. On first hearing about Add-Art I conjured a mental image of a zen-like, ad-free digital nirvana (angels singing, people dressed in white playing lutes, bunches of grapes scattered around). But don't expect Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Van Gogh.

When we made our big announcement yesterday that Anthill Magazine had become a quarterly publication, we never expected to receive the flood of emails, SMS messages and phone calls of support. But we were intrigued to discover that we'd become a discussion topic among the chirperati on Twitter.

News just in that Spellr.us, the website spell-checking service created by Sydney-based digital media company Melon Media, cast aside its beta training wheels this afternoon and launched to the public.

The name - InnoCentive - sounds like it was manufactured in the crucible of an expensive, bureaucratic, innovation think-tank naming committee, but the site is incredibly impressive, efficient and market oriented.

Google has just added recent imagery to its interactive map of Victoria, which contains updates on the status and locations of bushfires based on...

Trends are useful - but in my view, anything beyond 2-5 years is pure fiction. The seeds of mass market change are always with us, percolating away in the background - you just have to pay attention. Here are five I'm tracking right now....

This item of internet flotsam is an oldie but a goodie. Presented as an historical document from the future, it predicts one possible chain...

I’ve been around the communications game for a fair while now and I’ll tell you what gets my goat: email, IM and SMS are...

Social networking tools, such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, are diabolical time-wasters. They suck millions of minutes from tens of thousands of people in...

Search online for any product/service and you will find a plethora of small businesses offering it for sale, either through their own virtual shop-fronts...

While pitching his new company at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco, Australian digital media maven Kevin Garber couldn’t help but feel dismayed that the cream of the world’s web entrepreneurs were mostly obsessed with sizzle over substance.

As you are no doubt aware, Google celebrated its 10-year anniversary in early September. The company has achieved much in a decade. As digital...

So you're pretty sure your website or blog is free of spelling errors. Wait, don't tell me... you got an A in spelling from your grade seven English teacher, right? Australian digital marketing company Melon Media is betting that even the most polished websites contain at least a few spelling groaners.

High definition set top boxes, mobile TV, digital radio – all contenders for the future of media, right? Well, not exactly. It can be...

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT Interviewer: Paul Ryan, Editor, Anthill magazine Interviewee: Scott Karp, CEO, Publish2 Interview conducted on 14 February, 2008 Paul Ryan: In your blog post launching Publish2 back...

The solemn burial of The Bulletin earlier this year sent even the most stoic media professional into a long, hard navel gaze. Things used...

When asked to name the handful of countries leading the world in mobile technology and content, most people fire back with Japan, South Korea,...