The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark. For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA. Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]
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. [...]
In 1996, I was in Teheran, negotiating the overflight of Iran for Qantas 747’s on their way to and from London-Singapore. By installing three Ground radar installations in Iran, Qantas was able to save millions off their annual fuel bill. The problem was political. Did Iran want Australian planes overflying it’s airspace? Well it [...]
Errata: It's been pointed out to me that Facebook just passed the three hundred million user mark and not the four hundred million. – Which obviously indicates early signs of dementia perhaps, on my part. – Hat-tip to David Goldstein from Link. In Australia, the formation of a credit union can be organised with 500 [...]
The Lack of interpersonal politics on Facebook appears to inspire peace and harmony. It would appear that Facebook are achieving what all the great statesmen have been unable to achieve. That is, creating a Global level playing field whilst at the same time apparently removing distrust and promoting “joy de verve”. Farmville, the [...]
People talk about the phenomenal growth of Facebook. But rarely do I read or hear discussion about how Facebook's technology and social functionality is changing other media. Tom and I had a discussion about this yesterday that I think is worth sharing: There is a facility that you can use on your [...]
It looks like online games might be about to change the way media and advertising companies interact with the Internet. Believe it or not, the most expensive real estate in the world is a little red barn. Nearly 40,000,000 million Farmville players have purchased one. It uses up exactly 3 squares of virtual [...]
I am deeply *enamoured/in awe of the adoption wave that Zynga have created with their Farmville creation. Of course, it helps if you have two million per month to spend on click-through advertising – however, that is a separate topic. Farmville is an excellent example of the concept of innovation patenting. Zynga took [...]
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 [...]