It’s always great to see old instituitons adopting new media (see my earlier post about the 10 Downing Street Channel) and South African bank, FNB, has become the latest blue-chip company to create their own YouTube Channel called FNBTV, which launched on 1 June 2008. At the moment content is quite thinly spread on FNBTV [...]

Another innovative example of how QR Codes can be used courtesy of Springwise: US-based Augme goes a step further. Instead of a text message, the site lets users create a unique two-dimensional barcode. When scanned by a cell phone, the viewer’s phone links up with the website embedded in the code: could be the wearer’s [...]

USA Today: The ban follows the alleged sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl by four male students at a school on the island of Evia in October, and the alleged videotaping of the incident on a cellphone of a fellow student. Back in the day when I was in high-school, I remember the first wave [...]

OJR has created a Wiki of *mostly* free tools and web services that journalists can take advantage of to improve their storytelling and multimedia skills. The Wiki is divided into several subsections including multimedia, blogs/CMS, picture & video services, forums, RSS, newsletters and HTML/CSS references. Although I’d say that in its current state the Wiki [...]

Residents of the extremely popular MMPORG ‘Second Life’ have been up-in-their-virtual-arms since last week, after an in-game ‘tool’ was made available for download which not only threatens their virtual identities but also potentially their livelihoods’ reports InformationWeek. CopyBot, which was initially designed as a debugging tool for the game’s developer Linden Lab, was reportedly modified [...]