Some time ago I interviewed Assia Grazioli-Venier, the strategist behind Ministry of Sound's online video service, and now out on her own as an independent consultant on online television. You can read about that initial discussion by clicking here. She's now built out her site, Flypaper.tv, as an information resource for online television and IPTV, and you can check out the latest news by clicking here.
Queensland isn't the first place you think of when seeking out innovative digital marketing skills in Australia. But while its interactive community has been relatively quiet, it has nonetheless been incubating a fast-growing bunch of businesses that may even be better placed to ride out any slowdown in the economy, should one actually arrive. This feature for B&T was a great chance to look under the covers of the Queensland digital industry, and while it's not been posted online, you can read the uncorrected draft version by clicking here:
Last week in Melbourne I had the pleasure of chatting to Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler at The Domain event held at the launch of Life.Lab at Digital Harbour. Tony spoke extensively about founding the business, building its strategy offline and on, and then selling most of it to the BBC. If you want to hear the podcast, click here. Thanks as always to the lads at Viocorp for putting it up online. I'll let you know about the next Melbourne Domain event as soon as I know about it myself ....
And here are some of the pics from the event:
There are an increasing number of reports these days that Second Life is doomed and that companies are leaving it in droves. The second part may be true, but I'm often reminded of the millions of dollars that were wasted by companies on the internet before its rules and boundaries were explored - anyone remember Buy.com. CDNow or CorProcure? The same thing seems to be happening now with virtual worlds - led of course by analysis of Second Life. But I don't for an instant believe that Second Life is going away (Gary Wisniewski from the Second Life Cable Network gives me good reason to feel that it isn't), nor have the possiblities for virtual worlds been fully explored. This latest piece for the Sydney Morning Herald innovation series gave me another opportuntity to explore the stories of local virtual worlds developers SIMmersion Holdings and VastPark, and the possibilities that the future holds for them. You can read all about them by clicking here.
Two more stories in my series on Australian IT innovation went up to the Sydney Morning Herald website last week. The first, which you can read by clicking here, was on the Melbourne-based not-for-profit organisation St Kilda Youth Services, and how it had benefited from an act of benevolence from the Melbourne-based softwre-as-a-service (SAAS) company SmartPath. It's great to see local companies getting behind charitable organisations to give them a hand, and also to see how well suited SAAS-based companies are to the task.
Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a lunchtime gathering for the Females in Information Technology and Telecommunications, including moderating a panel discussion with Gartner's Mary Ann Maxwell and ThoughWorks' Cyndi Mitchell. The topic of the day was 2.0 CIO, and Maxwell and Mitchell delivered interesting presentations on the changes that web 2.0 technologies are bringing to the workplace, and how to benefit from them. The folk at Viocorp recorded the whole thing, and you can check it out by clicking here.
The fourth in my series on Australian IT innovation for the Sydney Morning Herald is a look at the emerging Aussie widget industry. For me it was a chance to delve into another emerging sector (albeit it a very small one in Australia right now) and find interesting companies such as Perth-based TheBroth, which is turning a love of online collaborative art into a business. What I love about this is how the technical barriers are bring torn down when it comes to application development, making it progressively easier for anyone with a good idea to turn it into an application. For the full story, click here.
The third in my series on Australian IT innovation is now online at the Sydney Morning Herald. This one talks to Rhys Cooper, an entrepreneur with a dream of solving the communication difficulties of many disabled Australians through a revolutionary new kind of mobile phone. You can read about Rhys and his idea by clicking here.
The second of my series on Australian ICT innovation has now gone online - you can check it out by clicking here. This story was an exploration of general themes around technology innovation, and a good chance to chat to some of the prominent thinkers on tech innovation in Australia, along with one of the founders of our latest technology success story, Omnisio, which was recently purchased by Google.
I was recently commissioned by the Sydney Morning Herald's online division to write a series of articles around the broad topic of innovation in the Australian information technology industry. The first is now up online, talking about the work done by Queensland software vendor TechnologyOne to revamp its software, and you can see it by clicking here. A second story, that looks at IT innovation in Australia generally, should be up shortly, and the remaining six stories should be online across the next four weeks.
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