AWArds 2013
The 2014 Australian Web Awards are now open! Check out the highlights from this year’s awards night below!
Category: News, Thoughts & Ideas
Day 9 – Fri 22/11 Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina.
Leaving on a jet plane for Lima. Up for the airport at 4:00 AM. Hence, there is no day 9 report due to a lack of Zzzzzzzzs. The Wrap Up. We have much to be proud of. ICANN truly demonstrates that it’s dedicated to maintaining an Internet available to all. Reliably. Smooth administration, transparent record […]
Day 8 – Thurs 21/11 Last Day: Bingo!
Breakfast on Calle Florida is pleasant change from conference coffee. The street is colourful, lined with change touts mumbling “Cambio, Cambio”. The don’t bother me. My heritage camouflages me. Until I speak, anyway. Back to the Sheraton, I’ll pop into some contrasting sessions to flesh out my understanding of ICANN. I try a GNSO meeting, […]
Day 7 – Wed 20/11 Whois & Whocares?
Whois. What? Whois. That’s how we start the day. Whois is an online protocol that allows us to look up very basic information about a domain. Who owns it and some very basic configuration settings. It is a fundamental tool used in domain admin. And it’s going to be overhauled. This meeting was about how […]
Day 6 – Tue 19/11 Acronyms, Acronyms, Acronyms. And a Laugh.
Promises to be a big one. Today is the main stage for the ccNSO – the Country Codes Names Supporting Organisation. This is where .au and our overseas equivalents find voice and discuss common issues. Coffee is getting increasingly difficult to find upstairs. Never a good sign. I enter “La Pampa” room. “Oh, your from […]
Day 5 – Mon 18/11 Let the Show Begin!
Official opening ceremony address. This got quite build up yesterday. Our orientation lead compared listening to ICANN CEO, Fadi Chehade, to listening to Steve Jobs. He certainly has the onstage strut. Next off to a brief on the new Global Top Level Domains; .shop, .club etc. 1930 applications at $US185,000 each. Round 3 for Monday, […]
Day 4 – Sun 17/11 ICANN for Beginners
Walk to the Sheraton on a bright sunny day. Get the feel of the venue and into the newcomers session. Howdy Paul Szyndler! On with the headset for the English translation. Whoa! What’s that I just saw? 90 minutes in, and someone has sniffed my laptop via Bluetooth and enabled screen sharing. Lucky I saw […]
Day 3 – Sat 16/11 Buenos Aires 101: Hello San Telmo
Wake very late morning, trashed by travel & jet lag. Skip breakfast, it’s lunch time anyway. 30 minute walk to San Telmo. Wow. I love this place. Antiques, artesenas (handicrafts), trash and treasure. More “lomito” steak for lunch. Back to the hotel – time for further review & research of ICANN48. Early evening off to […]
Day 2 – Fri 15/11 First Meet & First Meat.
Yup, you get two Fridays when you double back over the IDL – you may as well start getting used to acronyms. They happen in bulk in this landscape. Arrive BA, meet Don Hollander, a polyglot Kiwi from the US and many other places. Share a cab from the airport, thus defeating the touts. Settle […]
Day 1 – Fri 15/11 Destination, Yes, ICANN!
Over 17 hours of flying time + airport time from Melbourne to BA via Auckland & Santiago. Plus a 3 hour flight delay in Santiago. Comic relief provided at Santiago transit terminal in the form of a disgruntled transit passenger throwing a classical Hispanic tantrum. Absolutely no toys left in the cot. Additional comic relief […]
Where’s Joe?
So just where am I? Why have I gone to Buenos Aires? Let me rewind a bit. Many years ago I went to register my first domain: www.swim.com.au I was told I couldn’t have it as it was a “dictionary word”. That was an early auDA rule. But that’s the name of my business? After […]
6 weeks until Christmas
Do you have a tech friend that is hard to buy for? This will be on our list to give all our tech friends this year and they will thank us for it later! What better for Xmas than something that lets you eat more turkey then work it off later!? Find out more here.
What is the current state of your business social media?
We often hear our customers tell us that they feel under resourced to keep their social media up to date. We can take that pain away. We can create, manage, post and schedule all your posts for you and act as a watch guard for your brand. Come in for a coffee and a chat […]
Something we love about the Apple iPhone 5c
Apple’s answer to a budget phone – the 5c has not been warmly received but this app development company have found the light at the end of the tunnel and have produced something we actually like! Flipcase can work on the iPhone 5 and 5S but has been designed specifically with the 5c and case […]
Featured Work – Living Doll eCommerce for Desktop & mobile.
We worked with living doll to facilitate a multi platform shopping experience to cater to the target market and their shopping patterns. The mobile interface allows customers to easily browse and ship within the smaller real-estate of their phone. No frustration from zooming and scrolling here. Check out their site. How could mobile eCommerce benefit […]
Just Call Me Bond
Like us on Facebook, Find the Bond photo on our wall and tell us your favourite bond moment and go in the draw to win a ticket to SWiM’s opening day showing of the new James Bond Designing 007 Exhibition at Melbourne Museum. You’ll get so close to the Aston Martin it will feel like […]
iOS7 Tips
We’ve all had two weeks with Apple’s new operating system to test it out. Here at the SWiM office we love the new camera filters but are not so keen on the new calendar layout or the speed at which is sucks battery power. What have been your first impressions of iOS7? Yay or Nay? […]
Web Awards Last Thursday
Last Thursday the Victoria Web Awards were held at The Longroom in Melbourne with Joe as MC for evening. There was some great website awarded this year, check out the winners here and photos here.
SAMRF 2013 Ball EDM
We have recently completed sending out a series of EDMs for the 2013 Susan Alberti Medical Research Foundation Charity Ball. The ball was an amazing success and all the funds raised will benefit the St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Click here to see more […]
Organize your iPhone apps with less logic, more usability
It’s the very definition of a “first world problem”: you have way more iPhone apps than you ever expected to use, and finding the one you want is becoming more and more of a chore. So much so that you’ve resorted to using the search screen to find them by name – which is clunky […]
We’ll Let You In On A Local Secret
Short term parking near SWiM has been pretty good, with plenty of 1 & 2 hour meter spots available. But now we can help you beat the parking officers for even longer. We’ll let you in on a little locals secret. The carpark on the corner of Victoria and Eades Street is now open and […]
Think Xmas
We are nearly half way through September and Christmas will be upon us before we know it. With roughly 3 months trading left in 2013 have you started thinking about Christmas preparation and 2014? If you’d like to catch up to discuss Pre-Xmas sales or new year campaigns – reach out!
Who Wants a Gold iPhone?
What do you all think about Apple’s announcement yesterday? Does the iPhone 5C appeal to you? Perhaps the new iPhone 5S with it’s new built in fingerprint identifier sensor is your preference? Either way, the new generation of smart phones is cementing our reliance on these little devices. Which brings up to a truly first […]
New Ways to Attract Facebook Fans
Facebook has recently announced changes to the rules and regulations around Facebook competitions. Facebook has removed the requirement that promotions on Facebook only be administrated through apps. Promotions can now also be administrated through Page Timelines. Pages can now collect entries by having users post on the timeline, like a page post & private message […]
Is your website working as hard as you are?
Multi Screening & Mobile Sites It’s plain to see that the majority of media consumption is now screen based. The latest Google report cements this stating that a whopping 88% of media interactions are screen based with 36% of our daily media interactions taking place via smartphones. The common phrase of ‘I’ll just google it’ […]