‘Josh Speaking’ Launches with Shane Jacobson Interview
I am excited to announce that today I launch a new project that will see me interview interesting people every week!
Josh Speaking is an audio show that asks the questions to deconstruct the lives of interesting people to pin point the important factors of their success.
Shane Jacobson (Kenny, Charlie & Boots, Top Gear Australia, Beaconsfield) is interviewed on episode one.
The candid 70 minute interview speaks about life before the success of Kenny in 2006 and the transition between part time performer to full time entertainer.
Listen to the full Shane Jacobson Interview at the Josh Speaking website.
Playa Case Video Surpasses 200K Views on YouTube in 1 week
Just over a week ago, I produced a video for Annex Products — the company that brought us the Opena Case & QuadLock. Playa Case is an iPhone 4/4s case that ‘discreetly’ holds up to two condoms on the back of your iPhone. The video launch on Sunday, April 1st, and was quickly picked up by the popular technology blog, Gizmodo Australia. Since then — just over a week later — the Playa Case video has been featured on hundreds of websites including CNET, Mashable, Gizmodo US and Huffington Post.
If you always do what you always did, you always get what you always got.
A Step Forward For Music Streaming in Australia
It seems my predictions of 2011 being the year of streaming has official begun, with the introduction of Australia’s first on-demand music service available on Sonos. In a lot of ways, Australia has been a few steps behind in media streaming. Services like Netflix, Pandora, Rhapsody and Spotify being unavailable in Australia, has highlighted the problems with licensing media streaming internationally. Companies are having to individually negotiate licensing deals with each country and frankly, Australia hasn’t been number one on the to do list.
This is why, I am happy with the introduction of Anubis.fm to Australia. Search, browse and play anything from Anubis.fm’s catalogue of more than 2 million songs, as often as you’d like, throughout your entire home—no computer required. Create your own playlists and program your own channels. All new and existing Sonos customers will receive a free 30-day trial to the service. Anubis.fm on Sonos is part of the ‘Music on Tap’ plan and costs AUD$12.99 per month.
I was a little worried when I saw Anubis.fm was operated by Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd, but am happy that they have incorporate all the big labels into the service including; Sony Music, Universal Music, EMI Music, Warner Music, and key independent labels.
“Our goal at Sonos is to provide music lovers with access to all the music on the planet,” said John MacFarlane, CEO, Sonos, Inc. “By adding popular music services to Sonos, like Anubis.fm, we can continue to give our customers the ability to discover and enjoy unlimited music possibilities in any or every room.”
With hardware companies focussing on streaming in their products, we should expect to see many more services coming to the Australia market.
Sleeping On The Sea Junk – Day 8 – James Bond Tour
Today was our trip to James Bond Island. It was going to be a long boat ride to the island, so I decided to take two sea sick tablets. Although it is great at ensuring I don’t get sea sick, they do cause drowsiness. It was a one hour drive to the pier and we were picked up from the resort by car at 7:30am. Within five minutes of being the car, I had fallen asleep and didn’t wake up until we arrived at the pier. Read more
Another Night In Patong – Day 7 Thailand
Yesterday, we spent the first half of the day relaxing at the resort, we were tired from the Koh Phi Phi tour. We have been very happy with our choice of resort. It is away from the hustle and bustle of Phuket Town and Patong, but we’re still close enough to go there to shop and experience some of the controlled chaos.
I have been fascinated by the Thai language and have been trying to learn as much as I can. I have been asking waiters, shop keepers and our driver Mr Game, how to say different things in Thai. Unfortunately, my short term memory is pretty shocking, so as hard as I try and say the words in my head, I forget. Read more
A Cold Phi Phi – Day 6 in Thailand
I am going to keep this post short. Because I am pretty tired! Today we went to Phi Phi Island. We woke up nice and early, had breakfast and were then driven to a pier twenty minutes from our resort.
There was about ten people on our speed boat, including a couple from Adelaide that we had met at Pat’s Home Thai Cooking.
It was raining heavily at the beginning of that day and improved to a drizzle in the afternoon. One thing that I learned today was that Phi Phi Island is actually a cluster of islands, not just one. Read more
Elephant Trekking And White Water Rafting – Day 5 Thailand
Sawadee Krap! We woke up at 7:15am today, which would have been fine, if we didn’t have to be at the lobby by 7:30am to leave for the day’s adventures. We skipped breakfast and made it just in time. We were driven to a location fifteen minutes away, where we were then greeted by Tam. “My name is Tam, like Tim Tam. Welcome to the land of smiles” He said as he grinned ear to ear. We sat and waited as other people from our group arrived from different hotels.
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Cooking, Swimming & Sunset Dining – Day 4 In Phuket
Today we attended our first activity that we booked through the travel agent – Pat’s Home Thai Cooking. We were both excited to learn the different techniques in cooking one of the worlds most recognised cuisines, Thai food. We were picked up from the lobby at around 9am, after another big breakfast at the resort.
A lady was driving the car. She didn’t talk much and wasn’t very confident in the traffic. She was tooting her horn and yelling a bit, which we hadn’t experienced when driving with Mr Game.
In the back of the car there were brochures for ‘Pat’s Home Thai Cooking’. On the front was a photo of a smiling Thai lady, it was Pat. Bree and I had the same thought, is the lady driving us Pat? If so, she isn’t as smiley in person and she didn’t introduce herself.
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