In this weeks segment on ABC Australia Adelaine Ng and I talked about the future of music, the next wave of storage and listening devices, subscription and streaming models and in an interesting “back to the future” shift we see how artists are going direct to fans and relying less on the middlemen to produce, […]
Reprinted from Virgin Australia’s in flight magazine Voyeur – August 2011 With a new breed of contactless credit and debit cards, and apps tipped to transform your smartphone into a digital wallet, a cashless society seems to be on the cards.Not so long ago, in an airplane similar to this one, overseas travellers kept a […]
Adelaine Ng of Radio ABC Australia and I in our regular FutureTech segment chatted about the forever expanding and changing virtual world and the notions of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding as as two important emerging trends. Crowdfunding involves raising funds through various portals for projects that might otherwise be rejected by the banks. It could be […]
In today’s podcast Phil Dobbie of CBS’s BTalk and I looks at ten things that will change our lives and businesses this year: Hyper-personalisation More social media More working together Mobile devices as personal assistants Our mobile device will tell us more about what’s going on More apps Social business Everything on the go Pictures, […]
The Indian government has clamped down on PayPal being used for purchases over US$500 and insisted that if you want to buy through PayPal you have to transfer $$ out of your traditional Indian bank account into your PayPal account – Ted Bull of Perth’s 6PR and I chat about the possible worldwide ramifications if […]
What does outsourcing, insourcing and swarming have to do with crowdsourcing? Lots. Phil Dobbie of BTalk on BNET and I talk about a whole new way of getting things done. If you need an expert or an extra set of hands to perform a task, then crowdsource it. As you’ll hear, in many cases the […]