Simon Julian

Kinda liked the idea of an iPod ring, maybe just because I don’t wear them…

http://holykaw.alltop.com/a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-ipods

Another Open Text site that we launched over the past few days is the Fax Solutions website (the new brand for Captaris).

Relatively short turn-around when compared to the Connectivity site – this one was done in around 2 months and was the result of the trip that Ayesha and I took to Seattle to meet with the Captaris team and Paul Stables, who is Open Text’s Head of Digital.

Very good trip in the end and the site has hit all of the goals that were set for it so far, which is great to see (launched on time too!).

http://faxsolutions.opentext.com/

Had a beer this afternoon with the wonderful Georgie Carpenter, who has worked with Areeba on recruitment for a while now and who is a pretty dab hand at such things, not that I know what a ‘dab hand’ is but it sounds like the thing to say…

Met up at Hell’s Kitchen, which is in Center Place – if you ever end up there go upstairs, good bar and you can sit above the laneway and watch many pretty (and not so pretty) young things wander past

Hell’s Kitchen
20 Centre Pl
Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
(03) 9654 5755

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Went live with the new website for Open Text’s Connectivity brand (formerly Hummingbird) a couple of days ago – really nice to see this one go live finally as it had been a very lengthy project with a lot of technical hurdles attached to it.

Lots of extension of RedDot functionality though so there is likely a fair bit of knowledge and value that we’ll get out of this one (plus it is a great looking website too!

http://connectivity.opentext.com/

Found a couple of different blogs discussing the Stencil Festival Opening night on Friday night -

http://eddienew.wordpress.com/
http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/melbourne-stencil-festival-opening-night/

Both worth taking a look at.

Haven’t had a chance to write much lately – a few weeks ago I became the Treasurer for the Melbourne Stencil Festival, which is a celebration of Street Art and Stencilling that is held once a year in Melbourne.

Plan is to take the Festival and turn it into a much larger, year round calendar of events and workshops that both raise the profile of the art form and provide positive outlets for artists and others.

Since 2001, Areeba have partnered with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. The 2009 refresh that we have completed was delivered on the Open Text WSS (RedDot) CMS Platform and is Phase 2 of a rejuvenation project which has seen production workflow improved, the content management system has become the major hub of all the organisation’s published content and the homepage and internal pages have been creatively redesigned.

Managed this one through from start to finish and I think we came up with a really nice result overall

Really liked this one, good article…

PARIS — Epochal pronouncements from rock stars should sometimes be taken with a dose of skepticism. In 1966, John Lennon declared that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Since the 1960s, Jesus has enjoyed a bit of a comeback, while the Beatles’ music is still unavailable from legitimate digital music services

But people in the music industry tend to listen to Thom Yorke, lead singer in the British alternative rock group Radiohead, for Radiohead has cultivated a reputation as one of the most future-proof bands around.

Read it here…

This one from Business and Leadership – FaceBook and Bebo are now apparently the most popular social networking sites for mobile surfers. See article here

Really liked this one, it was worth a read

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