The iTunes App store where you can download/buy new apps for your iPhone has turned into a boonaza for small time developers who armed with good idea now have platform that can propel them in supedevstardom . And along with the fame comes the money, small time success stories are talking about profits of $250, 000 in two months. The full story from Wired.

Mark Pesce’s keynote at WebDirections South

If a picture paints a thousand words, you’ve just absorbed a million, the equivalent of one-and-a-half Bibles. That’s the way it is, these days. Nothing is small, nothing discrete, nothing bite-sized. Instead, we get the fire hose, 24 x 7, a world in which connection and community have become so colonized by intensity and amplification that nearly nothing feels average anymore.

His key points:

• what happens when we break free from Dunbar’s Number
• the most useful tool any of us could have, moving forward into this future, is a social contextualizer
• the rise of Anarcho-syndicalism, a system with no hierarchy, no bosses, no secrets, no politics
• we behave like crowds when we really ought to be organizing like a community.

Mark’s been kind enough to share the transcript.

For the entourage fans. You know the show Jonny Drama is famous for ‘Viking quest’? Well here’s Viking Quest the game. Keep in mind this show does not and has never existed, but all done in the interest of engaging more fans in the story. There’s even a link to buy the non-existent 6-disc dvd set.

PS: Check out the warning copy @ the bottom of the page

Is NCF the next missing link?

Wiki: Near Field Communication or NFC, is a short-range high frequency wireless communication technology which enables the exchange of data between devices over about a 10 centimetre (around 4 inches) distance.

Kinda like a mash-up between a RFID Chip and a smart card but a little bit smarter than that. Locally Telstra and NAB have been working with it to develop contactless mobile payments (here). You know buy some “stuff” at the “supermarket” and instead of using your “plastic” to “pay” for it, you just “swipe” your “phone” past their “thing” and hey-ho you’ve just “paid” for it. Now it can go a little bit further than this as people have been using the technology in smart posters, so the user just waves their phone past the poster and “holy-digital-content-delivery-system-Batman”

Hat Tip: Rubbishcorp

A great post from Presentation Zen on what we can learn about “slide design” in business presentations from the world around us, or more specifically “Learning slide design from an Ikea billboard“. Great tips for the non-designery crowd.

Netflix Origami a neat little site that has instructions on how to create origami using the tear off piece from the Netflix DVD envelopes. Netflix of course being the online/mailout DVD monster in the states with the distinctive red envelope. From all appearances it looks like an endorsed thing from Netflix, until you read the disclaimer assuring us that they are in no way connected. Shame. This would be perfect for them them to bring in house, have little competitions, simple bit of the ol’ UGC. But no. Missed branding opportunity No. 3,242.

09/09/2008, originally uploaded by katie_chatfield.

You gotta wear 3d shades.

And travel by bmx.

In the office