Mark Pesce is a longtime Apple user and a dedicated futurist and technologist, so you’d think he’s seen it all. But the iPad, he reckons, is something altogether different.
One of the first bands to embrace file-sharing with the release of its pay-what-you-want album In Rainbows, Radiohead is again engaging with its fans by supplying a free audio master of its Prague 2009 concert for a fan-driven project.
The idea was for a variety of concert-goers to film the concert in HD from different angles within the audience. The footage was edited together with the audio master, and has now been made available for free download in formats for the iPad, YouTube and HD Quicktime, with a Blu-Ray version promised.
The result is a concert film that actually puts you in the audience - the next best thing to seeing Radiohead live.
Radiohead- Live in PragueIf your enterprise is up and running and you haven’t yet cast your eyes offshore, it’s time to get with the programme..
This is really clever: what looks like a typical YouTube video turns out to be anything but. And don’t worry, other than a bit of coarse language, it is work-safe—if you want it to be, anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ba1BqJ4S2MAre you guilty of using unnecessary—and pretentious—business jargon? It doesn't make you seem any cleverer, you know, but some of us just can't help it: paradigm, mindshare, blue-sky thinking, granularity, calendarise, and even stupid expressions like 'open the kimono' and 'boil the ocean'. Unsuck-it can help you stop with the buzzwords (or at least find some new ones to annoy your co-workers). Go on, drink the Kool-Aid ...
Dougal Watt is IBM’s chief cheese of innovation, and normally that would make him a happy chap. But IBM and University of Auckland combined efforts to create New Zealand's first Innovation Index and the results, well, let Dougal explain …
Semi-Permanent He's the tallest person we interviewed at Semi-Permanent and he also had the best shoes. Nicolas Roope, of Antirom and Poke fame, shares his social media wisdom and tells us why interesting ideas are no longer good enough.
Got the mid-winter blues, stuck in a rut, don't know where your life is going? Don't worry: this could be Your Big Year. A worldwide competition that's part of the UK's Global Entrepreneurship Week in November, Your Big Year's extremely lucky winner will embark on a 12-month, all-expenses-paid tour of the world, meeting celebrities and entrepreneurs, learning new skills and rolling up their sleeves for some volunteer work. Attend a conference in New York, take a limo ride in Vegas, learn photography in Africa, scuba dive in Australia, teach English in Ecuador, visit the Taj Mahal ... The aim is to encourage global citizenship and social responsibility through entrepreneurship. Whatever: it would sure beat surfing the net, watching telly and wondering how long till Labour Weekend.
Semi-Permanent As unassuming and down to earth in person as she was in her presentation, illustrator and typographer Jessica Hische reveals to Design Daily her master plan for getting 50% off Karen Walker gear and tells us why sociology and psychology are deeply embedded in her illustrations.
Semi-Permanent Semi-Permanent is in full artistic and creative swing, and it couldn't have got off to a better start than with typographer and artist Jessica Hische, who wowed the crowd with her works and words, and also made them laugh more than a few times. We spoke with Semi attendees during a break to find out their highlights so far and who they're most amped about seeing.
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Here’s the trailer for the film version of Freakonomics—bound to be a summer blockbuster, in the Idealog offices anyway. It looks like it’s out on iTunes before it’s in cinemas; perhaps they’ll even release it globally then. Now that would be freaky.
Continuing on with our coverage of TechNZ’s Innovation Forum, we talk to Stephen Tindall to find out more about his venture capital company, K1W1. The company has been pioneering an array of clean tech ventures, most notably with Lanzatech who recently secured a deal to work with China’s largest steel and iron conglomerate, Baosteel, and the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences, to commercialise its fuel ethanol producing technology.
Tindall discusses the business case for clean tech, describing it as a double win—why not use capital and innovation to clean up waste and combat global warming, and make some money at the same time?
Events CreativeTech, a forum devoted to all things Apple, is heading to Auckland next month—and we have a brilliant prize pack to give away including a one-day pass.


Roseanne Liang directs her first feature film—based on her own life and starring two kung-fu movie veterans. No pressure, says .
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A IP issue is how to determine value. Sometimes infringements of IP law are actually to your benefit. Obvious copying --that screams "RipOff" often reminds the consumer where real value ... …
Bleh... NIN fans did it first two years ago and with much higher quality http://www.thisoneisonus.org …
@Peter you think? I thought it was fairly average in comparison. The Hell campaign felt less ad like and more like a genuine choose your own adventure. The number of ... …
There are two big dangers with this kind of misleading green marketing. The first is that consumers will take green product labels at face value, and assume that they're making ... …