APPRECIATION CLUB
appreciation club: okay, 59 months in the US, 7 years involved in publicity, marketing, show biz. Two years of that pioneering new media, intensively doing a blog in the US (followed by another 22 months in NZ doing the same). how was it? Most of it was computer-intensive, laptop driven time spent typing tonnes of words, sharing thoughts, links etc. In a way, most of it was similar to any desk job involving long hours (where ten-twelve hour work days, was a lite working day – fourteen hours a day, common)… Perhaps for that reason, my tolerance of lazy thinkers isn’t the best. Love, joy, peace (patience’s fruit) needs a rev up in me. Patience is just not there, a side-effect of being a part of the experiment. In those long hours conditons being committed to the experiment, you do feel like you’re in a wheelchair, just the nature of that experience.
You also have your brain’s contents being cyphoned from you too (that’s also a strong reality).
parts of the experiment though in the usa, weren’t computer driven at all. yet as the u.s consists of the vast reality of 50 states and 309 million people (US Census 2010), via a computer is still the best way to be an American. (more…)
I.T & MEDIA
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 3.2.13~
LIME IS BETTER
martini fridays: lime is better
… indeed. :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 31.1.13~
SPORTS AUDIENCE MARKETING CULTURE – FOOTBALL, TV AUDIENCES + I.T WEBSITES BUZZ
Sports media distribution & participation marketing:
SBC Global reports: Predictionmachine.com*, a website that predicts the outcome of sporting events based on computer models, ran more than just “some” numbers. They ran Sunday’s 49ers vs. Ravens match-up through their system 50,000 times to see what the most likely outcome of the game will be.
I.T DOT.COM HASTINGS BUDS
hastings and te hana te ao marama country has come up with a good one today… who is domain name i.t start up entrepreneur: tony lentino?
he’s really good with thinking up future words and adding dot + com to them. we like that in nz. :)
check him. his currency, a dictionary. also check out te hana if on an excursion to nz.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.1.13~
SAMSUNG I.T’S SMART 2013 YEAR
i.t smart phone news: to increase telco’s global development in to asian markets via tablets and smart phones i.t devices, samsung is now officially making good gains on apple‘s strong lead. both companies (and all telco’s) win no matter what smart phone-tablet attracting company leads.–that story here.
“while the total semiconductor market decreased overall, together apple and samsung consumed $45.3 billion of semiconductors in 2012.” that’s a lot of rare earth minerals components going around in the world.
news selection: bernadine oliver kirby, last night’s news, nz. cf: zdnet + ts.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.1.13~
ASHTON KUTCHER PREMIERES jOBS AT SUNDANCE 2013
Although graphene the new super material in the works is pitted to be the new silicon, ashton kutcher, 34, is known in hollywood for his entrepreneurial silicon ventures in i.t and the guy who was the first social media megastar of the USA when twitter launched.
For Ashton, when so much of his wealth and interests are spread across i.t ventures and i.t development, parlaying his star profile that would best suit his business portfolio, saw ashton step into the role of steve jobs for the biopic film of the usa’s once no.1 nasdaq listed company.
ashton starring in jOBS appeared at sundance film festival, where all the new cool kids in movie entertainment on the indie scene congregate each year. in promoting the film here’s what kutcher had to say about playing steve j.
“he’s a guy who failed and got back on the horse… i think we can all sort of relate to that at some point in life… what was nice was when I was preparing for the character, i could still work on product development for technology companies, and I would sort of stay in character, (more…)
WALL STREET’S APPLE SET TO DIP
IT-Wall Street carry on: Apple shares dip, Wall Streets rush to lower forecasts.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 25.1.13~
I.T START UPS 2013 – LIST
business ideas & companies creating – words: winners. new entrepreneurs. innovative and transformative startups. respective ecosystems. further the world. social media. big data. health. medical advancements. save lives. enhance well being. private sales clubs touting reduced prices. winners. quantitative and qualitative success. financial performance. technological innovation. management quality. strategy. market inroads. track record relative to start up peers. see past the “buzz.” discovery. advocacy. most promising new business models.
wait there’s always more: a list of start up IT companies follows with a few IT industry words too:
internet, online. (more…)
AVATAR APPS GOOGLE PLAY – PETER CHIN ON MORPHING VIA APPS & I.T CULTURE MARKETING
Peter Chin a U.S pastor (nothing to do with pasteurised milk) comments on “Avatarism” “Apps” culture via Google Play… designed to acquire resource through spreading racial debate (dissention in some cases) in a game designed to acquire market share of the information collecting spy industry online.
–Read it.
There’s that notion of wearing ‘Indigenous peoples skin’… or a fear that China will wear the USA’s skin… in order to acquire resource etc. Or a commentary on the USA’s love-hate fascination with “what China’s doing next”. It can be said that the app is a commentary on it, to make the world get on, too. (more…)
VISION PROCESSING
We can give a satellite an artificial eye that can photograph your backyard from space, but making machines that can interpret what they “see” is still very challenging.
–Augmented reality in a simulated age where technological mimicry is quite the deal–BBC.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 17.1.13~
FACEBOOK SEARCH JANUARY 2013
Facebook is a social networking site that is now listed on Wall Street. Like Steve Jobs had to do once Apple listed years ago, Facebook’s leaders have to keep coming up with new ideas to keep their brand of IT attractive for its shareholders. A failure to do so, see’s Facebook in trouble. All I.T roads lead to Rome… that’s all you need to know in what is often pitched as a ‘competitive’ game. In part it is, yet many IT information sharing platforms exist to gather informatiion.
So what did Facebook come up with? A search enabling device on the website. Helpful. Look at
- What Facebook Graph Search means for your privacy
- Analysis: Facebook search escalates battle with Google
- Comment: Facebook’s bold new search feature
Facts: Facebook has in its archives over 240b photos. It has 1b people. It has helped facilitate 1tr connections. (more…)
I.T & APPLE INC
Paul Sheehan asks: How did Apple get so uncool so quickly? Apple has pioneered so much of online entertainment distribution. Apple Inc, what will it envolve into next?
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 17.1.13~
MR WEB, SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE’S VISIT TO WELLINGTON WILL FOCUS ON CYBER SECURITY THAT ENCOURAGES OPENNESS IN BUSINESS, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC INNOVATION
An “open and uncaptureable” internet, is what Sir Tim Berners-Lee hopes to communicate in New Zealand to a Wellington audience.
in 1989, TBL was the first to communicate via proto-web technology at the European Particle Physics Laboratory, CERN. It became the world wide web. Social, economic and innovation opportunities is the main aim of his visit. The internet needs openness and transparency in the world of hypermedia matters for New Zealand and the world he believes. (more…)
TEEN INVENTOR & ARTIST YAYA LU IS A BIT AUSSIE SPESH SMART AS A DESIGNER
A new breed of teens are arising. At 16, Yaya Lu has designed a voice-activated wheel chair. So clever. A true artist.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 16.1.13~
I.T TREND PREDICTIONS – DELOITTE’S 2013 PLAY IT FUTURISTIC DOCUMENT
IT trends of 2013 as per Deloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions 2013, reveals these estimates:
1 billion smart phones will move in sales.
The rest… well… read at the link above.
what will make all IT boom? Phoning, emailing creating media that is China focused. Then all the trend estimate volumes, just go up.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 16.1.13~
NEWS VIEWS OF PROBLEM SOLVING – WORLD NEWS 14.1.13
Problem solving is what journalists try and present as views in the news. News is a science. It steers economic flows some peoples way, more so over others. It should also be democratic, why news is important to watch in your own country. After that, your trading allies outside of your country.
The theory behind a news hour done right… is that real issues are presented and solutions are found to solve situations. Airing the story, is a part of that process of news. A story aired is an issue shared, thus an issue on its way to be solved as it is now in public consciousness. That is the theory behind the info-entertainment age of the news hour today. It’s exciting as news now can be commented about instantly. Thus the ball is moved forward within seconds of going to air by an active, involved public each with access to media platforms of their own, to share opinion on news.
Once a story is aired, many different peoples minds then add to the mix. The minds get thinking and the combined thought gleaned, act as a laser effect cutting through situations ahead. Truth has a life of its own. It doesn’t matter if people see a tweet, a blog post on Tumblr, or a Facebook upload on “truth” or not.
Truth will activate anyone’s expression of it. Truth is a magnet to truth. A principle of good working in the world, greater than us all. Journalists try and live to tell the truth in just countries. No matter how hard that process is. That is why I like good journalists, personally. I have been an entertainment journalist before. You’ve got to be strong. It’s a media scrum out there if reporting in large cities of the world. (more…)
WHITE GANGS PATCH
patch.
[An I.T post].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.1.13~
TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS VISIT TUMBLR WEBSITE MORE THAN FACEBOOK
Teen Trends Online:
Out of the websites Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Snapchat, blogging platform Tumbler is right up there with teens online. Tumbler is text, images, videos, links, and audio uploads capable.
Teen media markets expert, Josh Miller‘s recent post about how his 15-year-old sister uses the Internet, Y Combinator partner Garry Tan surveyed teens and young adults. (more…)
CYBORG HEALTH DISTRACTIONS – QSM DISCOURSE & HIGH TECH GADGETS
what control freaks love is: cyborg health distractions. a range of new technology offers the experience to consumers of watching their health in every detail. The benefit is that people are given a sense of control of the world, or their world, themselves. Really though, their data is going to science, as in ”the insights that we could learn from having all this quantified self data available are almost unfathomable,” proponents of the trend claim. (more…)
ON WEB CULTURE – MAX MERRITT & THE METEORS 1976
Baby i've been watching you Watching everything you do And i just can't help the feeling Someone else's stealing you away from me I see it written in your eyes You confirm it with your lies Though the web you weave can hold me I would rather that you told me Where you wanna be (more…)
GATHERING TEACHERS IP, CREATING BRAND AMBASSADORS – BILLIONAIRE MELINDA GATES AT THE COAL FACE OF CLASS WARS YEARS’ EDUCATORS
One of the most dangerous people to be today are billionaires. They are freaks. The wisest billionaires either keep the lowest profile they can. Or, they invent armour bravely and partly for their own interests in an era of class wars.
It is the age of the Pharaoahs, celebrities are often their mouth pieces and mediators with the people.
One person whose been quite creative at inventing armour to protect herself and further her products with a noble cause is Melinda Gates. Here’s what she says about raising up teacher ambassadors to share knowledge of best pedagogy (teaching practice) as well as become a movement using her computer IT products too and propagating their benefits to young consumers in class rooms.
Melinda rounded up a few hundred teachers in 32 different teaching districts of the US. She showed them a video. She also set them to work creating for her in a project where they could create high quality teacher development models and evaluation systems too as they talked and information shared together. (more…)
SMART PHONE BANKING, M-PESA & SAFARICOM & TELCO-BANKS NEXT FRONTIER OF DEVELOPMENT
telco‘s global footprint increasing via users is a hot topic online today. In the West smart phone companies + telco’s are hoping to get younger consumers on their grid.
That leads us to smart phone banking or banks via phone. Almost two years ago, when I returned from a rollercoaster, five years in the USA to New Zealand, a TV program on TV7 (a science platform at the time) featured telephone banking. The TV presenter was in Soweto, South Africa looking at the M-Pesa system. What was amazing was that everyone was trading via phone with M-Pesa as they shopped. Even the most traditionally dressed farmers of Africa, had a phone to trade with. It was a very advanced trading system in South Africa with the locals, beneath the surface of poverty. I loved the program.
In the West telco’s hope to do the same with phones. It’s the new frontier of technology and banking systems. So, let’s turn to Matt Stoller ‘s comments who observes two companies making inroads to do that. Stoller writes:
“I went to Kenya last summer, and saw how a semi-competent telecom and banking system could work. Kenya has the world’s most innovative mobile payments system, called M-Pesa. M-Pesa is a cell phone based cash remittance system based on text messages. Unlike Chase’s Quickpay system, M-Pesa just works, and works well. (more…)
January 9, 2013 | Categories: Bankers, Banking System Flows, Guest Commentary, Infrastructure Technology, IT, IT Engineers, Kenya, Smart Phone Banking, Smartphone Spend, South Africa, Telecommunications | 3 Comments »