Delegates to the ACTA discussions are now safe and sound back in their home countries convinced that they have been successful in aiding in stamping out copyright infringement. History has taught us that every-time the music industry or Government enact prosecutorial or legislative actions against file sharing, the resulting pushback always seems to trump [...]
Well believe it or not, it’s not hard. Let me give you (for free) the benefit of the twenty-six years of online activity observation that I have undertaken. Lets first analyse why success on the Internet can be yours, without selling your soul to the content companies. There are three billion plus [...]
Media barons and some of the anointed (think glitterati, freemasons or whichever other conspiracy theory you subscribe to this week); spend a lot of time gnashing teeth these days…. In the inimitable voice of Peter Sellers, “ Oh dearie dearie me, we have let de cat out of de bag”, – how the hell [...]
The Disagreement about Blogs There are two point two new Blog sites created for every second of every day of the year. (around 175,000 per day.) The blogosphere doubles every 236 days! Presently, there are around 77 million blogs,It has been predicted that within three years, 50% of all content online will be user-generated. [...]
Last week I was on a panel at an AIMIA conference which was about commercializing video. Through the day there were presentations from a whole bunch of people, as you would expect. But as they were talking I started thinking, “This is a bunch of hogwash”. Now there were some people there who presented some [...]
Farmville the new darling of the Facebook crowd have AJAX server problems, which is what happens when you trust another organisation with your hosting requirements. Unfortunately for us located in the antipodies, lag time on Farmville is now exceeding 5 minutes for a single “Harvest the Hen”. Although Zynga are trying to keep faith [...]
I guess the new star of the Internet, Zynga has started looking for M&A’s. Not that they want to be taken out yet. Fig 1. Farmville User Numbers daily growth through August. – Source – Facebook. User numbers were doubling every two weeks – although have slowed recently mainly due to transaction (caps) [...]
In the last three weeks I have noticed a decrease in filesharing. I considered that it might be a response to the unseasonably warm weather that Sydney is experiencing with people prefering to get outside than huddle over their computers. I may be wrong. The population of Sydney appear to be too busy with other [...]
Translation Inventors are important. Without inventors, we would not know what time of the day it was. (Apart from Paul Hogan.) Visionaries are important too, without visionary explorers like Vasco de Gama and Captain James Cook, we would not be sitting on this huge rock called Australia – we would still be huddled around the [...]
Sometimes I come across something that is too good not to share…. even if it is breaching copyright….. #11 posted by webmonkees, July 22, 2009 5:22 AM Dear Sirs at Speed Camera Cash Cow Inc: On May 20th, 2009, I produced a exclusive series of artistically inspired portraits of my vehicle. I have initiated a [...]