Advertising Agency Brisbane, Interactive Media, Creative Marketing and Digital Branding - BCM: Two Cents
BCM's Blog on advertising, media, technology
and everything in-between
Subscribe and Follow
Posts tagged with Google
Watching Coldplay in my undies and other great advances in technology
Despite investigating and playing with the latest technology trends every day, there are still moments where I can’t believe how far we’ve progressed over the last ten years. I had one of those moments this morning… Yep, sorry for that mental image. This morning Coldplay live streamed a concert direct from Spain via YouTube (brought [...]
Read More
The Not So Secret Life of Us
Claudia Karvan: producer, writer and actress. 27 years in the industry. Appeared in movies including Star Wars and Dating the Enemy and TV series including The Secret Life of Us and Love My Way. Winner of six Australian Film Institute Awards and two silver Logies. Google’s Claudia Karvan: actress, flasher and blasphemer. Six search results [...]
Read More
A reason to stay on the couch… the multi-million channel TV
The gap between where the internet ends and the medium of television begins got even smaller last week with the announcement of the launch of Google TV. In partnership with Sony, Intel, Logitech, Dish Networks, Adobe and Best Buy – Google will roll out a platform that makes the multimillion-channel TV a reality. The simple [...]
Read More
Why don’t we ride zebras?
‘Twas the summer of 2009 (at least to my memory) when Google rolled out predictive text in their search box – a feature which I seem to have a love/hate relationship with depending on how accurate the results are, or how sloppy my typing is… What has this got to do with riding zebras? Well, [...]
Read More
Google, no longer evil?
Google is a company that has a mission to make the world’s information as universally accessible as possible. And, in their Code of Conduct they state their philosphy is “Don’t be evil.” Both of these seem at odds with how the company operates in China. In 2006 Google entered the world’s fast-growing internet market by [...]
Read More
Dear Google, It’s Not You, It’s Me
This morning I decided to temporarily stop using Google Search after almost 10 years of making daily requests to the world’s most popular search engine. It isn’t because Google has done anything wrong in particular. Ok, it does feel a little creepy the way it tracks each and every search I do. And Google has [...]
Read More
Finding the right Dylan with a little bit of algorithmic help
There’s a nasty rumour that I am algorithmist. This is simply not true. Algorithms make the world go round. IF the sun is rising in the east THEN day is approaching. IF the clock says 3.00pm THEN my dogs want to be fed. My son Sam and I used to write algorithms in BASIC for [...]
Read More
The algorithm of life is a powerful beat
Want to book a centre seat, 6 rows back at a concert hall? Sorry not yet, we’re selling off the rubbish seats on the side at the back first. Want to pull your fighter jet into a 10g climb? Computer says no, that would exceed predetermined stress levels. Want to Google the lyrics, “The rhythm [...]
Read More
Wolfram Alpha: A new type of search engine
I’ve always loved reading reference materials, and probably always will. So if anyone out there had any doubt left in them that I’m not a total dweeb, banish those doubts now. But I’m unashamed in my love of absorbing facts, figures, diagrams and histories. Growing up, those facts came almost exclusively from the set of [...]
Read More
Are we ready to take responsibility for our privacy online?
Last week, Google announced their plans for behavioural targeting when serving up bazillions of ads each day. The approach they plan to use follows the lines of ‘if you don’t ask we won’t tell’- essentially making the detailed information that Google collects about you available if you have the inclination to review it. While Google [...]
Read More
-
What is acceptable mobile etiquette?
-
New campaign to connect with Brisbane
-
Someone is wrong on the internet
-
Come Play in the Wintergarden
-
Kony 2012: Are we victims of a social media stunt?
-
Time to resurrect the Bundy Bear?
-
What do you do for a living?
-
Hyundai goes mental
-
What a great idea!
-
Project Glass
-
Deb: You're probably fighting a losing battle, Mel. I t...
-
Nicole Earley: I can definitely relate Mel. Just last night I was...
-
Kevin Moreland: I agree Mel. I also agree with Jo, the etiquette i...
-
Jo Stone: Great post Mel - can I add to that -'Not in import...
-
Laura: Great campaign! I love the montage and all the new...
Copyright © 2012 BCM Partnership, all rights reserved.