Interesting hapenings on the World Wide Web.
In the age of YouTube, Facebook and Oprah, it should come as no surprise that people like to share their personal lives with the whole world. What is astonishing is the extent to which some people entrust the ultra-personal detritus of their lives to the collective wisdom of the World Wide Mob. A case in…
The good folks over at TechNation Australia (TNA) have begun compiling a monthly Aussie Startup Index, which ranks the highest trafficked Australian startup websites. The final figures are arrived at by averaging each site’s global Alexa and Compete rankings – only sites with a ranking of less than one million are listed (lower is better)….
Sadly, I’m stuck chasing deadlines this week. As such, I’ve not had the opportunity to scout the Internet and deliver to you, our expectant readers, my regular enewsletter post: Website of the Week. However, in the spirit of Anthill’s ongoing Magazine 2.0 Experiment, I thought that perhaps you could help me out? This is your…
I admit to not understanding many of the intricacies of high finance. After all, I studied Arts at university (and even began a PhD in US presidential history, before escaping with a pulse). They don’t tend to teach futures trading and shorting 101 between civil war battles and Nietzsche. Now, with the advent of online…
A few months back I wrote about FreeRice.com, an online word definition game run by the UN’s World Food Programme, which donates 20 grains of rice to needy people around the globe for every word correctly defined by users. Since then, several people have told me that they made FreeRice their homepage and spend the…
With the recent boom in online viral marketing through sites such as YouTube and Facebook, many people seem to have forgotten that word-of-mouth is actually the oldest form of marketing. Sure, cavemen weren’t able to upload videos of themselves vanquishing upstart rivals at the point of a club, but you can bet your last Pterodactyl…
“Hey, I can see my house from here!” Google Maps, already one of my favourite web services, today became even more useful for Australian users with the introduction of the Street View feature. Great swathes of this vast continent, previously only visible on Google Maps from satellite imagery, can now be viewed at street level…
“Hey, I can see my house from here!” Google Maps, already one of my favourite web services, today became even more useful for Australian users with the introduction of the Street View feature. Great swathes of this vast continent, previously only visible on Google Maps from satellite imagery, can now be viewed at street level…
Sick of sitting through tedious events (oh, I don’t know, say, ones where the speakers repeatedly define “innovation”) and then wishing there was some way to claw back those lost hours, even days? The sixth instalment of The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, held in late May, was about as close as…
The digital world has made it both easier and more difficult to track new innovation. Easier because almost everyone has the ability to broadcast their genius to a global audience. More difficult because this creates quite a din. Part of Anthill‘s mission is to perform some of the filtering for you, largely for the Australian…
You might have already contributed to our ongoing Magazine 2.0 experiment, where we are inviting readers to nominate insightful tips for starting a business (the best will be published in each issue of Anthill). To complement these “168 start-up tips”, this week we are featuring a terrifically useful blog post by Jason Nazar containing links…
Something a bit different this week. At Anthill, we’re keen advocates of great design as a gateway to untapped creativity. We place immense emphasis on the design of our finished product (something Australian business magazines traditionally have not prioritised) and it’s something we take time to appreciate in the work of others. So it was…
So you’re worried that your new product name might prove to be commercial Kryptonite? Or perhaps you just want to share your genius for naming products and earn some extra cash. A new web service harnesses the wisdom of crowds to suggest and rate product/business names for you. It’s 48-hour pre-market research with a US$99…
For developers of new products and services, accurate feedback is worth its weight in gold. That’s why corporations spend billions of dollars on market testing and feedback channels. Now, a new web-based service allows any business or organisation to simply and effectively solicit feedback from customers, track which requests are most popular and implement those…
Everyone loves a good bargain. But for all the immediacy in today’s world, it seems harder than ever to find one amid the never-to-be-repeated deals, opportunities to earn unimaginable wealth (hey, I have a pretty fertile imagination) and products that deliver six-pack abs as you eat pizza and drink beer on the couch. While these…
On 19 April, over 650 tech entrepreneurs and students attended the fourth annual free Startup School, held at Stanford University in California. The event, organised by seed venture fund YCombinator, has become a fixture in the West Coast US tech entrepreneur’s calendar. This year’s world-class speakers included Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Marc Andreessen (Netscape/Ning), Greg McAdoo…
Over the past five years, Anthill has made a point of writing about new and effective ways of conducting business. The underlying message has always been: the rules of business have changed – businesses must adapt or perish. In our hyper-connected world, success usually boils down to the degrees of connection to your goals. We…
We’re fans of the site Ads of the world, which tracks the most innovative and witty advertising across all mediums. If you are at all interested in advertising, it’s well worth perusing. But if you’re looking for a real giggle, our website of the week is a blog post dedicated to professional advertising ruined (or…
If you’ve ever seen the movie American Psycho (based on Brett Easton Ellis’s extremely dark novel), you will surely remember the “business card” scene in which Manhattan investment banker and surreptitious serial killer Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) engages in a business-card-off with colleagues. (Scene embedded below.) While Bateman’s taste was decidedly minimalist, many people go…
We recently stumbled on an acute example of just how appealing (and viral) a creatively designed shopping website can be. Dutch Company HEMA presents what at first glance appears to be a conventional ‘shop window’ product catalogue. But wait a few second and watch the magic kick in.
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