ndWare make games and mobile production tool Richmotion.
mo:life:
Can you give a run down of what Richmotion Live actually does? And, ideally, how do you see people using it?
Robert Murray:
Richmotion Live is the first in a range of products based on our core Richmotion technology. It is a tool that allows you to compose sophisticated animations [...]

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Claudia Sagripanti is Convenor of the Mobile Content Industry Development Group (MCIDG) - Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA), and Director of VentureOne Pty Limited, a mobile content consulting company.
mo:life:
Can you give a brief overview of the mobile content industry in Australia? How many players are currently involved? Who’s successful?
Claudia Sagripanti:
I see mobile content covering [...]

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Kylie Robertson produces Girl Friday - a live-action interactive sitcom series for broadband and mobile platforms.
LH:
Tell me about your background before coming to medium of the mobile?
KR:
I studied scientific photography at RMIT 94’ – 96’. This course was dedicated to scientific and photographic principals. It was an interesting blend of creative and science streams. I [...]

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Dr Marisa Maio Mackay is Director of Research at mNet Corporation
This week, in part one of a two part interview, Larissa Hjorth talks to mobile phone researcher, Dr Marisa Maio Mackay, Director – Research, mNet Corporation
LH:
For people not familiar with the pivotal and innovative work conducted by mNet Corporation can you give us some type [...]

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Tom Hume is Director and founder of Future Platforms (www.futureplatforms.com), a mobile software company based on the seaside in Brighton, UK. Previously he spent 5 years working for Good Technology, one of the UKs first web development companies. He likes cats, aikido, and cheap cider, and can be found online at tomhume.org
mo:life
Could you outline the [...]

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This week, we talk with Esther Bailey.
Esther Bailey has been working in new media for about 8 years now and has been specialising in mobile for the past 3. She has always loved the thrill of the new. She is NSW President and also sits on the Mobile Content Industry Development Group, the National Executive [...]

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Matt McCullough is one of the directors of Steamfish - an animation studio based in St Kilda. His background is in independent animated film making - starting out with stop motion and now solely digital. Steamfish does a lot of 3d character work, some 2d Flash work, some visual effects and compositing…and now mobile content.
mo:life
What [...]

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This week we talk to Tim Parsons and David Opitz who were recently involved with the recent Metro:Mobility Masterclasses in Sydney (http://www.metroscreen.com.au/metromobility.html).
Tim Parsons has had a long involvement in online creative strategy and digital execution. During the wild days of the dot-com era both in agencies and as an independent saw Tim working with Fortune [...]

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Shane Williamson is a Partner Manager at Hutchison 3G Australia (“3”), running the “Developers on 3″ & “Solutions on 3″ partner programmes that he founded in 2003.
mo:life
In terms of mobile content and mobile applications, what kind of ’stuff’ is 3 really interested in? From your research, what’s currently successful and what does 3’s crystal ball [...]

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Nathan Mayfield and Tracey Robertson of Hoodlum Entertainment produced ‘Fat Cow Motel’, an interactive drama that screened on the ABC in 2003. Zone4’s Thom Saunders worked with Hoodlum to create the new media component of the program. Now the three have formed Hoodlum Active, recognising that new media and TV producers need to start working [...]

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