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Matt Hooper

Matt Hooper

IT Knowledge Manager. My interests include Social/New Media, Semantic Web, Online Identity, Attention Profiling, Cloud Services. Trained musician,linguist
Social IDs Go Shopping: Kmart and Sears Implement OpenID - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
@btub @nicolejensen not going to make it to #btub tonight - not feeling the best. Have fun!
Live Web, Real Time . . . Call It What You Will, It’s Gonna Take A While To Get It - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Can’t choose? Search Bing and Google simultaneously - http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009...
Demand to scrap networks' first-pick rights to TV sport - via The Australian - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...
FREE-TO-AIR television networks should have their "first pick" rights to major sports events curtailed or abolished because of the unnecessary costs they impose on pay-TV operators and major sports. A key economic adviser to government has recommended a rethink of the longstanding "anti-siphoning" rules aimed at maximising free TV coverage of major sports, ahead of Canberra's review of the scheme. In a draft report out today, the Productivity Commission has slammed the list of sports offered first to free-to-air networks as "inherently anti-competitive". - Matt Hooper
Re: Confirmed: Second Life, online adult games to banned outright in Australia - http://www.inquisitr.com/27288...
"It will be interesting to see how Second Life and WoW are treated, that's for sure. It seems overkill if they do ban SL outright, particularly given the moves by Linden Labs to change the way adult material is handled (see https://blogs.secondlife.com/communi......). Surely it would be more reasonable to allow adults to opt-in to taking part in SL and WoW if they so choose. Btw - SL isn't just about the adult content, despite commonly held (mis)conceptions!" - Matt Hooper
FriendFeed Adds File Sharing. No Movies, But MP3s Are Fine. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Flash Hits Android - When Will Apple Play Catch-up? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Who Else Wants a House that Tweets? - http://www.inquisitr.com/27101...
Tag networks on social sites may predict next Internet fad - http://arstechnica.com/science...
A new analysis of data from del.ici.ous shows that, while the number of tags grows roughly in proportion to the growth of content, users can unwittingly provide bridges between networks of seemingly unrelated concepts. - Matt Hooper
got my preferred facebook username :)
If you think twitter is weird, you're not alone - http://www.gravity7.com/blog...
A little long, but this post raises some good points on some of the oddities of the Twitter experience. I would like to have seen some reference to the #fixreplies debacle as well - the ability to see @replies from your followers to people you are not following was one of the most serendipitous features for early adopters and 'power users'. - Matt Hooper
@awrd good to chat last night - talk soon :)
@greystonebar @lauragofton thanks for all your hard work hosting #btub last night - you looked REALLY busy! Thanks to @nicolejensen too!
home from #btub
@CleverClogs watching live video stream from #momoams at http://www.mobilemonday.nl/live... - 3 former TED speakers. Thanks @CleverClogs!
@snagy are you coming back to Brisbane soon? #btub on this Friday night 5 June :)
ACCC approves Vodafone-3 merger - Telecommunications - iTnews Australia - http://www.itnews.com.au/News...
Microsoft Launching Real Time-Focused IE8 Bundled with OneRiot Search - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
At the EBMS event management software conference on the gold coast
Will Google Win When Microsoft Kills Office 2000? - http://sty.im/B4cGHg
Will Google Win When Microsoft Kills Office 2000?
test share from Streamy - Matt Hooper
No, the power of these online apps will not attract the people who never upgraded from Office 2000. Most likely these people didn' t upgrade because they were not interested or didn't have the know-how. If they don't have the know-how then they will never find Google docs or Zoho. If they are not interested then they'll just keep using Office 2000 until the computer crashes -- - LPH™ and his dog P™
yes I'd have to agree there. Most people wouldn't know about MS support periods ending anyway, I would think - Matt Hooper
Most consumers will not even realise, and certainly only look at touching their version of office when it's time to replace their PC....not uncommon. - Clifford Kennedy
checking out Streamy.com again
@EliasBiz you've been on IE6 this long? whoa! Were there specific tools that were dependent on IE6 which made it hard to move?
OneRiot Announces API & Real-Time Search Partnerships - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Google should acquire Friendfeed, the leader in the real time web - http://eliasbizannes.com/blog...
downloading the Us Now film for viewing later: A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet http://www.usnowfilm.com/
Facebook Becomes Largest OpenID Relying Party - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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