This week I was invited to a presentation of the future of Microsoft’s technologies by Robbie Bach, President of Entertainment and Devices. The main focus of the evening was the Microsoft Surface technology, with a side order of Natal gestural interfaces.
The Surface is really a touch screen, table-top, interface without the grid-lock feature. Items can […]
The World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP) landed with impact in Melbourne last week. Hiding behind a dry name that accentuates a niche, this is actually a diamond in the rough of international TV conferences. It does not have the glam of Cannes, but it is where the commissioners meet the […]
Forrester research has published this neat little widget for segmenting different levels of participation in online content. Personally I think this is pushing it to label it ’social’ in the same way that people creating their own Christmas cards should not be called ’social’ as it’s just another way to create content.
What it *is* is […]
In time for the nation-stopping Melbourne Cup, The Project Factory has released the Yellowglen WHERE RU? application. Using your iPhone, you’ll be able to locate your friends wherever they are on the Flemington racetrack.
The app links to your Facebook account so you can invite them, zoom in to locate them and plan the perfect meeting […]
The Project Factory is pleased to announce the launch of The First Boxer, a game developed for Random House publishers to promote the publication of Christopher Ride’s new book called, funnily enough, The First Boxer.
The game was developed with tight timelines and incorporates competition mechanisms, high score tables, and a flexible gameplay that allows us […]
Ok, so perhaps this is totally niche but someone else out there may get the same geeky frisson that I do from looking through this image.
Created during the production of the Cricket Unlimited website for the Guardian in the late nineties this database schema captures all permutations of the game of cricket as a database […]
Wendy Harmer’s TV show Pearlie is on our screens on Channel Ten on weekend mornings, and online 24 hours a day. Each episode will be available on the site as well as all the fabulous characters for audiences to meet. Developed and produced by The Project Factory in conjunction with the show’s producers Sticky Pictures, […]
We’re very pleased to announce the launch of the Facebook page we have produced for The National Breast Council Foundation. Show your support by becoming a fan, signing up and donating.
I chaired the first day of the Media & Broadcasting Congress in Sydney last week. Good speakers, though I’d say the big players will need to pick up the innovation that they dropped with the recession.
The summary I gave the conference (which I also think is a snapshot of where we’re at with digital) is:
“Audiences […]
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