Apple dispenses with Macbook keyboard
A recent ONN story broke news that Apple was replacing keyboards on its popular Macbook range a big iPod-like scroll wheel. (video embedded below).
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Academic Earth: The best information is now free
Want to improve your knowledge or skills, but can’t afford the time or exorbitant cost of tuition to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton or Berkeley? Now you can watch some of the best educational lectures in the world from the comfort of your armchair thanks to Academic Earth.
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Witty animation about the end of the earth
This video put a smile on my face. It’s a witty motion-capture animation outlining… how to destroy the world with nanotechnology.
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Clay Shirky speaks his mind at CeBIT (Germany)
Authentic Anthillian Mark Kofahl spent plenty of time in the Webciety area of CeBIT in Hanover, Germany earlier this month. He’s leading the charge to introduce Webciety to CeBIT Australia and pointed us to this video from CeBIT Hanover of social media thinker Clay “Here Comes Everybody” Shirky. Shirky is considered a visionary by many…
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The history of the internet visualised
A couple of weeks ago we posted a great video visualisation explaining the complex origins of the current credit crisis. It was so well received, we thought we’d post another interesting visualisation video. This one explains the history of the internet.
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TED – At the coalface of technology, science and entrepreneurship
The American writer Dorye Roettger observed in 1932 (a tough time for optimists), “There are no problems – only opportunities.” This spirit animates the many brilliant, committed people who haven’t let doom and gloom stop them from innovating. The TED conference is where the best and brightest share the fruits of their dreams and labours.
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“99 things you should have already experienced on the internet (unless you’re a loser or old or something)”
Sure, it’s largely a bunch of links to YouTube clips and similar digital detritus, but it is in many ways an aggregation of the highlights (and lowlights) of relentless, disposable, Gen Now pop-culture.
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"99 things you should have already experienced on the internet (unless you're a loser or old or something)"
Sure, it’s largely a bunch of links to YouTube clips and similar digital detritus, but it is in many ways an aggregation of the highlights (and lowlights) of relentless, disposable, Gen Now pop-culture.
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How to launch your own venture capital fund (with Domenic Carosa)
Late last year, destra founder Domenic Carosa launched the Future Capital Development Fund Limited (FCDFL), a new investment fund focused on internet ventures. Here, Carosa chats with Anthill publisher James Tuckerman about the process of starting a new investment fund in Australia.
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The crisis of credit visualised
Los Angeles-based designer Jonathan Jarvis has created a wonderful animated video explaining the complex origins of the current credit crisis.
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World Builder: An amazing short film
This award winning short by filmmaker Bruce Branit was shot in a single day followed by about two years of post production. In it, a man builds a world literally from scratch for the woman he loves, using holographic tools. If you thought Tom Cruise’s gloves in Minority Report were kinda cool, this will blow you away. Branit is…
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One man’s trash is another man’s shelter
Twelve-year-old Max Wallack recently won Grand Prize at the recent Design Squad ‘Trash or Treasure’ competition for his “Home Dome” design – make-shift shelter for the homeless made out of trash.
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One man's trash is another man's shelter
Twelve-year-old Max Wallack recently won Grand Prize at the recent Design Squad ‘Trash or Treasure’ competition for his “Home Dome” design – make-shift shelter for the homeless made out of trash.
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Microsoft peers into the future. 2019, to be precise.
Microsoft is showing signs of renewal, and this Future Vision Montage (presented at this year’s Wharton Business Technology Conference) proves it. It might contain more fiction than science, but this showcase of Microsoft’s futuristic product line, circa 2019, contains a mouth-watering array of technologies that will deliver seemless interactivity beyond the desktop.
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Innovation versus Bureauracy (Yes Minister and the patient-less hospital)
Sitting there, the phone resting in the nook of my shoulder as the optimistic soundtrack of globalisation lolled along, I recalled that quintessential scene from the brilliant BBC series, Yes Minister, where the Right Honorable James Hacker MP, Minister for Administrative Affairs, is informed by his Private Secretary, Bernard, of a brand new hospital with 500 non-medical staff and no patients. A bureaucrat’s idea of perfection.
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Window on the future: online video in Asia
The very conditions that make Asia such a disruptive market for consumer behaviour – lax copyright, fast broadband, urban youth subcultures, advanced mobile devices – are also fast becoming global trends. As the rest of the world joins the party, you can rest assured, the future of TV will not be far behind.
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Get out of your inbox! Some Merlin magic.
The idea is simple enough. Don’t leave emails in your inbox. It’s not a healthy place to live. Action them immediately – deal with them, delegate them, delete them or move them from you inbox to somewhere more organised. Just don’t let them sit there, mocking you.
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Surf the Alps with Wii and Google earth
Some technically-minded Germans from the Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence have managed to mashup a Wii balance board to Google Earth and enable you to “surf” the globe. The mind boggles at where this will all be in a decade or two.
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Why executives fear social media
In this video, New York Times technology columnist/blogger David Pogue makes some interesting points on why many executives fear social media, citing loss of control and reluctance to part with their one-way, broadcast spin mentality, to mention a few.
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PR flacks beware! Your product campaigns are subject to video review.
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.
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