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March 25, 2015Byte Into IT - 25 March 2015
On this week's Byte:
Guests:
Dr Steffen Walz, director of RMIT's Games and Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEELab) joins us in studio to discuss his new book, The Gameful World, the gamification of everyday life, and his talk and workshop next Thursday for the Deloitte Center for the Edge.
News in Brief:
Netflix in Australia has launched! But will it offer enough for people using VPN services to switch?
India has struck down a controversial internet censorship law, after first being challenged in 2012.
The transport industry is reacting to Uber in NSW, with complaints that it's anti-competetive.
News in Depth:
Keren's returned to us briefly after establishing a life in Vietnam. She fills us in on the tech scene over there, and the benefits of working in a tech industry that is in the process of taking off.
Events and Opportunities:
Freeplay is turning 10 years old this year! It's on April 10 to April 19, but if you want to get involved, the Freeplay Fete is looking for stall holders to displaying their creations - Saturday April 18, 10am-6pm, or you can present at the festival's Unconference.
Startup Weekend is a global active movement of grassroots entrepreneurs, and is happenening this weekend, March 27-29. Plenty of stuff going on!
Startup Week, run by Startup Victoria, is on from March 27 -April 2.
Social Melbourne meet at Plantation Coffee, Shop 253 (Level 2) at Melbourne Central at 8am every Friday to discuss working for Social Media and the web.
Presented by Warren Davies, Keren Flavell and Maize Wallin
Keep up with all things Byte on Twitter, Facebook, and G+ - see you next week!
50 min
March 18, 2015Byte Into IT - 18 March 2015
On this week's Byte:
Guests:
Square Sounds is on this weekend, celebrating all things chiptune! We were joined by one of the co-organisers of the festival Eugene Davoren-Britton and Swedish chiptune wizard Anders Carlsson (better known as Goto80).
Greg Wadley, Helen Hughes and Joel Sterner of Proof of Concept came in to studio to give us a rundown on Facebook Party, which happened (almost) entirely on Facebook.
News:
A sad (or happy) day for Internet Explorer, with the long-lived browser finally being retired by Microsoft. Its replacement is named (currently) "Project Spartan". Impressive, huh?
At SXSW, Yahoo have announced that they want to remove the password.
Events and Opportunities:
Youth Without Borders are holding the Spark Engineering Camp in Melbourne from July 6 to 1, helping school students from non-traditional backgrounds to engage in university life, and get excited about engineering. If you're interested in participating as a student or mentor, check it out!
Freeplay Fete with games, workshops and a DIY craft stall where game-makers will be displaying their creations - Saturday April 1, 10am-6pm, venue TBA
CSSConf 2015 is on next week. It'll feature talks by leading Australian web designers and developers, and the schedule includes:
Pre-conference event at Bartronica, 7pm Wednesday March 25;
CSSConf at the Meat Market, North Melbourne, March 26 and 27 ; and
Decompress - a huge day of hacks, workshops and lightning talks at Meat Market on Saturday March 28 (free for CSSConf attendees)
Presented by Vanessa Toholka, Simon Leo Brown and Dan Salmon
Keep up with all things Byte on Twitter, Facebook, and G+ - see you next week!
40 min
March 11, 2015Byte Into IT - 11 March 2015
On this week's Byte:
Guests:
The Code for All movement is a network of civic technologists who believe that digital technology allows people to more meaningfully engage in the public sphere. We're joined in studio by Alvaro Maz of Code for Australia, and Giselle Sperber of Code for America.
If you want to get involved with CfA, you can get in touch with the Melbourne Civic Lab (or start your own local Civic Lab!), or you may be interested in a Code for Australia Fellowship.
News in Brief:
A new survey by Startup Muster has singled out Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull as the MP doing most to help startups in Australia.
It's not all good news though, with Freelancer CEO outlining ways things for startups can improve in an email to the Communications Minister.
BitTorrent client Torrent has come under fire for including bitcoin mining program EpicScale in its software package, installing it without users' knowledge.
News in Depth:
The Apple Watch has landed! You can spend anywhere between $499 and $14,000 for the shiny. The team discuss the pros and cons of Apple's latest baby, and the advertising strategy that they're employing.
Events and Opportunities:
CSS Conf is on March 26-27 at Melbourne Meat Market - tickets have sold out, but there is a waiting list, as well as a Decompress event on March 28.
Infoxchange is running their YouthSpark Career Pathways for 18-26-year-olds who are looking for a career in IT, and looking for a foot in the door.
The Australian and New Zealand Internet Awards are on - if you or someone you know have done something awesome with the Internet, why not nominate them for an ANZIA?
Presented by Warren Davies and Cade Diehm.
Keep up with all things Byte on Twitter, Facebook, and G+ - see you next week!
46 min
March 04, 2015Byte Into IT - 4 March 2015
On this week's Byte:
Guests:
Rem Ramesh and Kris Maunder of Seamless Content Management join the team in studio to discuss their Hack to your Future recruitment Hackathon.
Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute based at Southampton University, and operating at Edinburgh, Manchester and Oxford Universities, was in Melbourne recently for the University of Melbourne's Research Bazaar, and found some time to have a chat with Vanessa.
News in Brief:
The world's first grid-connected wave power station has been switched on in Western Australia.
News has surfaced that Dutch-French tech company Gemalto (who manufacture the majority of the world's mobile SIM cards) was hacked by the NSA and Britain's GCHQ five years ago (and didn't know about it), potentially compromising the company's millions of customers. Gemalto's response was less than reassuring.
Netflix have announced their Australian launch date - March 24!
Federal Government politicians were available for a chat briefly this week, after it was discovered that a number of them use their publicly available parliamentary emails on the Apple messaging service.
The encrypted messaging service Wickr appears to be the app of choice for many who want to keep their comms private - not least Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Mike's Games Wrap:
The Interactive Games and Entertainment Association have released the results of their study into games sales in 2014 - a total increase of 20 percent.
For developers, Epic have announced that the new Unreal Engine 4 will be free, and Unity have announced that Unity 5 will be too.
Surprise Attack have been releaseing some cool indie games lately. Some on the horizon include:
Space Sluggers
Oscura: Lost Light
A Druid's Duel
Fort Meow
With regard to the big titles, Mike's just playedThe Order: 1886 on PS4 - his verdict? A great looking game, but with lacklustre gameplay.
And in big toys, the new Holden interface far outstrips that of Mercedes-Benz.
Events and Opportunities:
Maker extraordinaire Rex Hazard is in Melbourne:
He'll be at the Footscray Maker Lab Thursday March 5 at 6:30pm
He'll also be at Media Lab Melbourne with Emme Orbach Sunday March 8 at 2pm.
Presented by Vanessa Toholka, Mike Bantick and Dan Salmon
Keep up with all things Byte on Twitter, Facebook, and G+ - see you next week!
52 min
February 18, 2015Byte Into IT - 18 February 2015
On this week's Byte:
Guests:
Dr Fiona Tweedie and Damien Irving join the team to discuss the Research Bazaar conference, aiming at getting technologists and researchers to work better together, and helping researchers develop their tech skills.
Director of the Mozilla Science Lab Caitlin Thaney has been in town for the Research Bazaar, and spoke with Vanessa earlier in the week.
News in Brief:
HTTP/2 is done! Finished! Complete! Or at least according to Mark Nottingham, chair of the Internet Engineering Taskforce's HTTP working group.
News in Depth:
Google pioneer Vince Serf has warned that we need to start thinking of ways of storing and accessing data in the long term, so that future generations have ways of accessing and experiencing the data that we use and produce.
On a related note, did you get a chance to play any of the game emulators that were released by internetarchive.org? Pretty sweet...
Events and Opportunities:
Webstock is on in Wellington NZ. If you didn't get a ticket, follow it on Twitter.
The Connected Community Hacker Space has heaps of stuff going on at the moment - check some of it out.
The Melbourne Machine Learning & AI Meetup group has plenty of things coming up, workshopping machine learning
Remote Control Terrorist Coffin, discussing the ethics of design, among many other issues, RMIT, Thursday 26 Feb to Thursday 26 March
Data Flow is a creative exploration of how data flows in the production of Art in an increasingly digital world. Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery, 360 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn, Tuesday 3 March to Sunday 12 April.
A new open coworking space in Melbourne's west is opening - Kindred Studios.
The Docklands Library has so much stuff going on - check it out.
Presented by Vanessa Toholka, Laura Summers and Simon Leo Brown.
Keep up with all things Byte on Twitter, Facebook, and G+ - see you next week!
49 min
February 11, 2015Byte Into IT - 11 February 2015
On this week's Byte:
Guests:
Pause Fest is this week!
Head of Programming and Partnerships Murray Galbraith phoned in from the Festival to give the team a rundown on what's in store for this year.
Co-founder of Shout for Good and Smiling Mind Jane Martino was one of the speakers at Pause, and called the studio to give us a sneak peek at what she's been up to.
News in Brief:
March 10 was Safer Internet Day - one of the higher-profile participants was Snapchat, who created a pretty fun-looking list of methods to keep yourself safe online.
News in Depth:
Certain members of the United Stated Federal Communications Commission has come out in favour of Net Neutrality, but not without some bickering.
Events and Opportunities:
Square Sounds 2015 is happening around the city March 20-22 (based out of the Evelyn on Brunswick St), celebrating everything that's awesome about chip music.
AIMIA's Rising Stars Internship program is looking for participants!
Melbourne Polytechnic has a new Advanced Diploma in Screen and Media at its Prahran campus.
Presented by Warren Davies, Vanessa Toholka and Dan Salmon
Keep up with all things Byte on Twitter, Facebook, and G+ - it's great to be back!
47 min
November 26, 2014 Byte Into IT - 26 November 2014
On this week's Byte Into It hosts Vanessa and Simon were joined by music producer Casey Rice who discussed with the relationship technology shares with music, and how emerging technology has changed his approach to music
50 min
November 19, 2014 Byte Into IT - 19 November 2014
This week on Byte Into It Warren, Keren and Mike were joined by Rose Callaghan discusses the world of online dating apps. Nick Hodges also drops by to discuss digital products and services fail or succeed in light of conjecture around Google Glass.
50 min

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