Archive for March 2010

The truth about digital strategies

Mar 30th, 2010 | By Guy | Category: The Lean Forward Blog

Australia is sometimes seen as a place where people can say things without those things reaching back to the northern hemisphere. Last week Dawn Airey, the CEO of Channel 5, was in Sydney and gave a very candid view of the current state of the global television industry.
“Looking at what dial-up internet has done to the […]



Facebook goes 3D

Mar 8th, 2010 | By Guy | Category: The First Column

Have a look at The Friend Cube, an experimental journey into the third dimension for Facebook users.
The site provides a more entertaining way to see your friends’ updates and quickly spot who has updated their status, all wrapped up in a massive 3D cube you can zoom in on, rotate and spin.
The project is part of […]



20:20 foresight - AIMIA Awards keynote

Mar 6th, 2010 | By Guy | Category: TPF News

Published here is the full text of the keynote that Guy Gadney gave at the 16th AIMIA Awards in Melbourne.
Over the past decade I have been lucky enough to work on some pretty transformational digital projects.
I was with FOXTEL when it went digital. At BigPond when Telstra became a mediacomms company. At PBL Media […]



Mobile - rich pickings and good numbers

Mar 1st, 2010 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: The Lean Forward Blog

This blog is about a week out of date. During that time, $295k was made by the mobile industry. It’s an impressive number, and no, I’m not talking about mobile advertising but about the amount that is made from mobile subscribers by the carriers. (For those of you interested, these figures are in a presentation […]