Jetpacks Are Overrated
Solving big problems with little sensors
Brian Swift from unicorn startup SafetyCulture talks about the tech that's helping companies increase safety and reduce risk.
Seamus Byrne
Founder and Head of Content at Byteside. Brings two decades of experience covering tech, digital culture, and their impacts on society.
Apps, clouds and platform control
Will we end up where Steve Jobs started the iPhone? With web-based apps that preserve control for those who make them beyond the borders of the App Store?
Jetpacks Are Overrated
Creating AR with Simone Clow (Virtual Immersive)
Simone Clow is CEO of Virtual Immersive, a company that produces commercial VR/AR content to create cool experiences in stores and at special events.
Byteside Podcast
The awkward brilliance of game storytelling
It's a game-y sort of week at Byteside, kicking off with a book that included accidental game references in its very real historic fiction.
More than a business story
More tech stories in the culture pages, please.
Networks
Digital scarcity
Limitlessness always seems viable within a digital context. But how does it work when real people have to use it?
Some friction is good for you
the hunt for 'frictionless' interactions and interfaces misses an important fact: some friction is essential to making things that matter.
High Resolution
Blightbound designer Jasper Koning from Ronimo Games
Jasper Koning, Founder of Ronimo Games talks Blightbound, a dungeon crawler that looks like Golden Axe but might have more in common with Destiny or Diablo.
Byteside Podcast
The agony and ecstasy of Dolby Atmos
From old school cassette tapes to the latest in home theatre, we get a little audio crazy this week. Plus more insights into the new jobs at Byteside.
External motivations
This week school has gone back here in NSW and while the world is still in a very difficult place with the pandemic, our kids had a pretty ‘normal’ holidays. The first since October 2019. The summer was black. Kids couldn’t play outside because of the fires. They couldn’
Transparency is a vulnerability
Today I pulled the trigger on expanding the Byteside team, creating an opportunity to bring two paid writers on board to work with me across the site, the newsletter, the social presence, and the podcasts. I love working in a team. I’ve got a good track record of helping
Byteside is evolving: come work with us!
Byteside, the miniature media empire covering tech, games and digital culture, is adding new (and paid) opportunities to join the editorial team.