Steal Our Ideas Here’s a novel way for two advertising types, Adam and Jon, to make an impact in their industry. It is a great blog/website. The pair behind this site offer up ideas for advertising campaigns and quirky products for people to freely steal. It is a superb flow of creativity. Here are my […]
Online Insights
Category: Online Insights
Online Insights with Steve Davis on FIVEaa, Sunday, May 17, 2009
It takes a village idiot I stumbled upon this quirky article about the different types of people who annoy the rest of the population on online forums and thought I’d check to see how many of these “types” we encounter on talkback or at social gatherings – because online communities are just like face-to-face communities, […]
Online Insights with Steve Davis on FIVEaa, Sunday, May 03, 2009
Hello Health Here’s something for Australia’s medical fraternity and legislators to get involved in – online integration with your doctor! I would love a doctor’s surgery to have online booking systems so you don’t have to wait until 8.30 or 9 am to get the engaged signal while everybody tries to call at once to […]
Online Insights with Steve Davis on FIVEaa, Sunday, April 19, 2009
Beer Wars Movie I talk a lot about wine so I thought I would balance the books here by mentioning this novel event that took place in America last week. A documentary about the US beer market and the battle between small breweries and the big breweries was released and screened in cinemas for one […]
Online Insights with Steve Davis on FIVEaa, Sunday, April 05, 2009
Flickr Vision Regular listeners will know I am a fan of Flickr – the online photo sharing site. Well now I have found a new way to enjoy it. It is called Flickr Vision and it is such a simple but mesmerising concept. When you visit the site, your screen is filled by a map […]
Online Insights with Steve Davis on FIVEaa, Sunday, March 22, 2009
Australian Nudist Federation website Australian nudists have finally entered the 21st century with an official website coinciding with the release of new guidelines for naturists. Unfortunately, the site is one of the clunkiest I have seen for a while with bandwidth-heavy technology. This site certainly won’t be the model for modern websites. Not only is […]
Online Insights with Steve Davis on FIVEaa, Sunday, March 08, 2009
Wunderground I have fallen in love with this weather site because it goes deep into weather conditions and ties together various weather resources in one spot. I particularly like the ability to overlay satellite, fire and severe weather information and then animate it (just like you see it done on television news). Adelaide had boring […]
Online Insights with Steve Davis on FIVEaa, Sunday, February 22, 2009
Good ideas for websites Sean and I have had some good ideas for businesses and websites during our radio show, so it is only fitting that we share a source for similarly stellar ideas from online – Good website ideas by Simon the Web Genius. Simon is the alter-ego of David Thorne, the man we […]
Online Insights on FIVEaa, Sunday, February 08, 2009
Country Fire Service I have never profiled the CFS website and, in fact, it wasn’t until this weekend with all the fire warnings in place for Saturday, that I actually visited the website. It is a very simple website which is probably the right approach for an emergency service that needs to ensure its messages […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, January 25, 2009
Ants, ants, ants Through the week we battled an ant invasion. I mentioned it on Facebook and got told how wonderful ants are (in other people’s houses). In particular, there were two great links. One is actually for a software company that has based some software on the way ants search for food and lay […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, January 11, 2009
Midomi Midomi is a social network with a difference, in fact it moves to the beat of a different drum! A good friend of mine from Japan told me about this site and has summed it up as follows: “Basically if you’re trying to find a song, but you can’t remember the artist or song […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, December 28, 2008
Introduction to Snakes of Australia I have found a powerpoint presentation online that is an introduction to a more in depth presentation on snakes, snake bites, and how to treat them. It was put together for an organisation called Living With Wildlife, which is based up in Williamstown, South Australia. Here are some fascinating things: […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, December 14, 2008
Video on how the world is changing and at what pace This video compiles a number of facts and estimates relating to humanity and technology. Here is a taste: Google 31 billion searches per month By 2013 there will be a supercomputer with more computational capacity than the human brain By 2040, there is likely […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, November 30, 2008
Firstly tonight, hello to bloggers in Adelaide. The Adelaide blogging community is having its end of year get together tonight. China defines internet addiction China is set to register “internet addiction” as an official condition with the World Health Organisation in 2009. It follows research by Chinese psychologists, and will put the “disorder” on the […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, November 16, 2008
No Clean Feed Australia’s federal Labour government, championed through Senator Stephen Conroy, is hellbent on one of the most stupid, cynical exercises known to humankind. Under that vote-winning and indisputable catchcry of “stamping out child pornography” (which every sane human would support), Conroy and his cronies are marching ahead with plans to force mandatory filtering […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, November 02, 2008
Yearbook Yourself This site is a blast. If you ever wanted to know how you would have looked through the recent decades of fashion and trends, then you need to Yearbook Yourself. You upload a photo of yourself – one where you are looking directly at the camera. You are guided to position the photo […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, October 05, 2008
Can a giant leech be art? I have been running some marketing workshops in the Adelaide Hills recently and met a colourful and somewhat zany character, Janet Campbell. Janet is working on ways to promote local artists, particularly from the Hills region, on the wider stage. What she doesn’t know is that I have stumbled […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, September 21, 2008
Before I start with the websites, I have to give eBay a blast tonight for allowing pompous, over-spun, conceited, corporate speak on their site. eBay is pretty good at saying things like “our fees are going up and it will help you as a seller”, that sort of thing, but now they have started running […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, August 31, 2008
Road Kill Cook Book I was in the Riverland at Berri, South Australia, this past week, running workshops on online marketing, eBay and the various web2.0 technologies applicable to small business, and met Cathy from Emaroo Cottages. They run some holiday accommodation in Broken Hill and Mildura. She mentioned that their website boasted a Road […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, August 03, 2008
Gary Sauer-Thompson Here is an Adelaide man who is producing and interesting blog, rich with interesting words and pictures. Gary describes himself as someone for whom “Adelaide is home. Work is often in Canberra. Relaxation is in Victor Harbor.” He says he is a “frustrated photographer & philosopher who has lost his way in life. […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, July 20, 2008
Adelaide Green Porridge Forum I have found an amusing blog written by a fellow Adelaidean, Colin Campbell. Colin describes himself as a “Transplanted Scot, with an Australian partner, a seven year old would be Computer Game Junky/Cricketer/Yugioh Duellist/Pirate.., nine year old all Singing and Dancing/Mobile Phone Video Artist.., Spotty the annoying but friendly dog, Ben […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, July 06, 2008
Stuart’s Hell Michael Giacometti is an Alice Springs man on a mission, drawing close to to finishing his gruelling challenge of dragging a 180kg cart over 1000 sand dunes in Australia’s Simpson Desert, from east to west, unassisted and away from roads and tracks. In September 1845, after 18 months in central Australia searching for […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, June 22, 2008
Evernote We can now have an external brain to keep track of all the tiny bits of information we encounter every day, through a service called Evernote. The service is in Beta at the moment and I am a few days away from taking part in the early trials. The technology is breathtaking. The basic […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, June 8, 2008
50 things everybody should know how to do This article is a rich resource of how-to links and videos covering a pretty comprehensive list of basic life skills. Sadly, the only one missing that I think is important is “how to make or find the perfect espresso”, but I guess they had to cull some […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, May 18, 2008
Free Encyclopaedia Here’s a little trick to get you free access to Encyclopaedia Britannica. The techcrunch article I am linking to explains how Encyclopaedia Britannica is often used as an example of how new technology can hurt traditional business models. After 250 years of dominating the encyclopaedia space, along came Wikipedia and suddenly, for every […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, May 04, 2008
Workcover blog for injured workers by injured workers This blog site was recommended to my by a listener, David, and it seems to be a busy blog that documents public comments and commentary on all things related to South Australia’s workers’ compensation system. It makes for some depressing reading. You certainly get the impression that […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, April 20, 2008
Australia 2020 Well, our nation’s huge talkfest is over and now it is up to politicians and public servants to filter through the ideas and see if any can be made to work – or if any are electorally palatable enough to warrant pushing through. According to various reports, our representatives/delegates have floated ideas including: […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, March 23, 2008
SA Water The SA Water website is worth a visit if every you’re feeling worried about our water supply. You can click your way through our water catchment, storage and distribution system for a daily snapshot on how much water we have on hand and how much water we used in the previous 24 hours. […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, March 09, 2008
Project Laundry List Wow. The Americans know how to use fossil fuel energy (even more than we do). Did you know, it is still illegal in some US states to hang your washing out to dry in the sun. As a result, electric dryers use 5 to 10 percent of residential electricity in the USA. […]
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, February 10, 2008
Religion of The Jedi Star Wars fans and anyone who enjoys a little eccentricity will like this article about the “Jedi Church”, courtesy of the Daily Mail of London. Founded in North Wales, the Jedi Church/Religion preaches a Yoda-inspired gospel of “life improvement, inner peace and changing your lifestyle so you have a more fulfilling […]