Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
The Cool Hunter celebrates creativity in all of its modern
manifestations. We are a leading online publication and an upmarket hub
for what is the most creative, the most innovative, the newest, best
and coolest. We value global relevance, not global trends, channeling
what we find to our worldwide audience.
In a society obsessed with the shiny and new, The Cool Hunter has
become the reference point of choice for the latest in what's hot
tomorrow. Everyone wants to know what's hot, because 'hot' products and
ideas sell. Over 1 million people now read The Cool Hunter a month.
Sign up for our free weekly newsletter so you're always in the know! Because being in the know - makes you so much more interesting.
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
From the founder of the cool hunter comes dear-god.net;
a startlingly new concept of spirituality where people from all over
the planet reveal their innermost hopes and fears in the form of
prayers to god.
Dear God is completely non-demoninational and
the term god is used in the broadest sense – encompassing every
religion’s concept of a higher power; be it a Christian god, a Muslim
god or simply a fluid idea of universal energy.
In its first
week, the site has sparked an organic revolution, with
people all over the world embracing the opportunity to unburden
themselves, to share their hopes and fears with others in an effort
create hope, healing, inner peace and clarity.
From the poignant and the heart-wrenching to even the light-hearted and
the humorous, the posts on dear god cover the gamut of human experience,
providing a powerfully raw and honest insight into our world today.
As
one online site stated "After viewing this website I found it to be so
honest of the world’s reflection and thoughts. See we as believers
probably wonder and ask the same types of questions, but never express
them to anyone. There are a lot of different views about what and who
God is and that is reflected in this site. Try to not view this with a
closed mind….Try not to debate that you know the right answer….Try to
view this as an opportunity to peek into the heart of our world".
The logo and site design were created by London based design agency Something Somewhere - the same firm that created the Artic Monkeys website.
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
Here at the Cool Hunter we’re not afraid to acknowledge when we need
help. Most of you who read our content regularly, know that we strive
to be a step ahead spotting and reporting on the most inspiring and
creative posts in design, fashion, travel, lifestyle and more.
As we all look forward to a new year, we’re fortunate to receive well
over 550,000 unique readers per month, and we just won the 2007 Webblog
Award for Best Culture Blog . We’re eager to see our efforts translated
into major global markets such as India, China, Japan, Italy and more.
We’ll also be adding new features including a hotel booking service, an
online store, a social network portal, global job lists, Cool Hunter TV, Cool Hunter magazine
and much more.
As we expand, we need your help in making this seamless transition
while we create an enhanced Cool Hunter user experience. We’re looking
for an innovative web development company (preferpably Sydney/Melbourne based)
who has what it takes to bring new ideas to our growing audience
worldwide. If you or your company is up for the challenge, contact
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Image - Earthlights
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
What brought you here today? Will you come back for more tomorrow? Or
next week? Or next year? Will you tell your friends or
co-workers about something you’ve seen or read on our pages? When
you travel or shop or explore or look for adventure, has anything we’ve
brought to your attention provided unmatched inspiration? We’d
like to believe the answer to each of these questions is undoubtedly,
YES!
We’re on our own hunt right now for creative minds to design a new
attention-grabbing campaign to attract even more readers to the Cool
Hunter. We already receive over 550,000 unique readers per month,
1.4 million page views (across 4 cool hunter sites) and we’re positive
with your help, we can find even more – especially as we expand into
the major global markets in India, China, Japan and Europe in
2008.
We’re in the process of redeveloping our entire approach to bringing
our readers the coolest information out there – we’re adding online
hotel bookings, an online store, global job postings, a "get
acquainted" social network portal, Cool Hunter TV, Cool Hunter
Magazine, as well as Cool Hunter events that will tour the globe.
If you think you have what it takes to help us plan and execute our new
marketing campaign – helping generate buzz around the world for the
Cool Hunter, contact
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The competition is open to anyone with a unique creative idea.
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Tuesday, 30 October 2007 |
We’re looking for aspiring coolhunters to contribute to the site,
which is on the road to expansion with new coolhunter sites set to
launch all over the globe, a magazine, TV show and a series of books.
We attract those who know - and those who want to know - about fashion,
lifestyle, design, travel, architecture and music, among many other
topics.
We are looking for a few more contributors around the world that can
spot, research and write about cool stuff – we are particularly keen on
new contributors in fashion, design/architecture and music. If you have
an eye (nose, ear) for what’s new, innovative and cool, and are willing
and able to do the research that make the posts worth our readers’
while, we’d love to hear from you! You need
to be able to write concise, snappy copy but more importantly you need
the ability to locate and unearth interesting and original things –
that means people, products and places that are leading the way.
Basically you need a ‘cool radar’ that enables you to spot something of
interest at 20 paces. If this sounds like you send us a sample. Keep it
to 100 words max and attach pics if you have them. e-mail
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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
We’re proud to announce the first non-English arm of the coolhunter - coolhunter Turkey, edited by local creative firebrand and natural coolhunter Yagmur Uslu. The site features all of the hottest pieces from the main international version, including extra editorial and news on what’s cool in Turkey including the latest in travel, art, fashion, style and all facets of design. If you can read Turkish, check it out. Coolhunter Turkey is just the latest in a bunch of global sites with more to launch later this year, including Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Brazil and the UK set launch next week. By Billy T
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
The Cool Hunter is looking for a reliable freelance web front-end
developer to help us launch our online store. We're implementing
new features to the site to enhance your cool hunter experience,
therefore we're looking for a Front End Developer with PHP/MYSQL
experience who knows how to use Joomla.
So if you have the following skills outlined below,
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Technical Experience needed:
HTML
Javascript
CSS
PHP
MySQL
Apache
OpenSource Software:
Joomla CMS
zookoda (Mailing list)
PhpAdsNew
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
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The new Cool Hunter social networking section will be launched later
this month and this site will soon be subscriber based only.
Be a part of the Cool Hunter global community with our new exclusive
(invite-only) online social facility.
Members of the global community can finally connect with one another
online; sharing their ideas, thoughts, art and innovations. Connecting
thousands of like-minded coolhunter readers across different continents.
Readers can put anything they like on their own homepages including
their own profiles and pictures, and samples of things they love or
samples of their own work. They can even use Mycoolhunter to create
their own versions of the coolhunter.net by coolhunting items off the
site that they like – or they can add their own unique finds, becoming
coolhunters themselves. The possibilities are endless. It’s all
about connecting and sharing ideas and passions. We’ll also be
launching an online store where you’ll
be able to buy some of the items featured on the site. Podcasts and web
TV will also be a component of the new community.
Being part of the new community will also guarantee you access our
archived database. To be part of it you will need to subscribe to the
site to get access but don’t sweat as it will still be free. A limited
number of invites will be made available to our subscribers, so sign up
now.
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In a society obsessed with the shiny and new, The Cool Hunter has
become the reference point of choice for the latest in what's hot
tomorrow. Everyone wants to know what's hot, because 'hot' products and
ideas sell. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter, so you're always in the know! Because being in the know - makes you so much more interesting.
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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
Hollywood's emerging crop of online talent scouts are dedicated to
discovering talent online, matching up creators of obscure Web videos
with the online divisions of traditional media companies, portals, and
ad agencies, all of them hungry to try a new sort of storytelling. Meet the HIT MEN.
Magazines: Change Or Die:
A rise in the percentage of ad spending allocated to Internet and
mobile media will intensify pressure on magazine publishers to adapt a
fast-changing business landscape or die
Late-Stage Cancer Vaccines Set to Launch
Innovation Scouts - How creative businesses in technology and
media are unearthing new ideas in unexpected places--from an American
Idol-style contest at Adobe Systems to eBay's new "disruption" team. Meet the new cool hunters.
The magazine industry is suffering one of its more pronounced troughs. Established names are closing, while others face an amalgamation of staff to survive.
Many would say that this is too hostile a climate to support
independent and innovative publications, but a new breed of maverick
publishers are kicking the business up the backside by doing things
their way, proving that there is always a market for wit, imagination
and intelligence.
Fashion houses are trying out new products on the teenyboppers of Tokyo.
There's a lot at stake with global warming, so for those not sure what
to believe, New Scientist debunks the 26 most common climate myths
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |
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With over 300+ entries for the Motorazr V3xx giveaway, we had some great
responses. Cam Birrell from Fitzroy in Melbourne is our winner.
We'll be throwing alot more free goodies your way, so make sure you
subscribe to our mailing list. His
entry:
"Not to blow my own trumpet but every day I leave my apartment boasting
a massive bulge at the front of my jeans. Adonis? No. Porn Star?
Unlikely. Owner of a mobile phone that clearly resembles the size of a
house phone? Bingo.
With two way video streaming I could become that porn star! With
broadband I could pretend I am an Adonis on chat sites! Help me become
the man I want to be without having to rely on the bulge…help me"
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
India's Jet Airways introduces exclusive mini-suites in first class. Now you can fly in your own private cabin from London to India - for less than a BA first class seat
On the gentle art of selling yourself,
confidence, and first impressions. "It is said that we are all three
different people: the person we think we are (the one we have
invented), the person other people think we are (the impression we
make) and the person we think other people think we are (the one we
fret about). You could say it would be a lifetime's quest to reconcile
this battling trinity into a seamless whole.
Viacom is rumoured to be close to a deal to buy Last.FM, a London-based online social music network, for $450 million.
"During my 23 years with The L.A Times' sports department, I have held a
wide variety of roles and titles. Tennis writer. Angels beat reporter.
Olympics writer. Essayist. Sports media critic. NFL columnist. Recent
keeper of the Morning Briefing flame. Today I leave for a few weeks' vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation. As Christine". By Los Angeles Times sportwriter Mike Penner.
Evian Criminals. The new snob appeal of tap water.
Airlines have never discounted business-class seats — until now, that is.
Want to direct Bjork's next music video? One lucky reader now has the chance.
YOU TUBE - Kid almost slips off rollercoaster ride.
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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
You Snooze, You Lose.
Want to keep pace with the competition? Forget coffee, new class of
FDA-approved stimulants will keep you working harder, better, faster
and stronger.
The 51 Best Magazines Ever - the Smartest, Prettiest, Coolest, Funniest, Most Influential, Most Necessary, Most Important, Most Essential, etc.
The Business for celebrity photographers is under serious threat from an army of amateurs and opportunists snapping stars on their mobile phones. German
Hans Paul, who says he once earned $120,000 for a picture of a
then-pregnant Julia Roberts, said fees for paparazzi had been driven to
new lows as even fans and autograph hunters now know how to market
their pictures, especially now that new player, peoplepaparazzi.com are paying big bucks for your cell phone celeb pics.
Some people will do anything to get into the papers. But few have the
audacity of a man in Switzerland, who conned one of the country's
biggest media companies into publishing a two-page advertisement he
created of himself posing semi-naked beside a bottle of Gucci perfume.
The
Battle for First Class. Discount airlines that offer only premium seats
are shaking up the lucrative transatlantic market.
Sony tries to unsuccessfully ban a gaming blog from mentioning a rumor. Warning to other corporations: don't mess with blogs, they're a powerful community.
If solar power and recycled
building materials just arenít green enough for you, the brains behind
the Fab Tree Hab might have the perfect pad.
Jobster, an online job board, is teaming up with
social-networking site Facebook to launch a career site featuring video
rÈsumÈs in March.
Missed an episode of Hereos? Watch it online.
'It' girl interrupted. Cory Kennedy was an Internet celebrity and international style phenomenon before she even hit 16. Then her mother found out.
Now you can wear Glow in the dark Sneakers to Neon parties . And if you want to go all out, check out the glow in the dark tattoos.
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Wednesday, 07 February 2007 |
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Linkle is the first dedicated sewing cafe in Berlin.
Knitting clubs have spread like wildfire over the past few years, with
men and women gathering in pubs to stitch, bitch and get their craft
on. Like internet cafes, people just walk in and install themselves
behind a machine, and are charged by the hour (5 euros).
There
are several ways to send a message. You can be bold and yell from a
rooftop. You can be subtle and mention a theory in passing. Or if you
really mean business, you can make a motion picture and, in order to
reach even more people, organize an army to disseminate its message. Al Gore has trained nearly 1,000 of his foot soldiers to give the same presentation that he delivers in the movie. His
disciples, who are required to give at least 10 talks a year, are not
just scientists but volunteers from all walks of life including
teachers, housewives and even celebrities like Cameron Diaz.
MySpace
is teaming with Britain's Film4 and Vertigo Films to bankroll a British
movie, hosting a competition to find the director. MySpace users also will get a chance to choose the title, comment on the script, help pick the cast and even become one of the actor. The newspaper industry is spending $75 million to argue that it's not screwed. How much better it would be to spend $75 million on innovation so, indeed, it wont be screwed.
Bloggers In Tents: Fashion Warms to New Media.
No longer relegated to fashion-show Siberia, bloggers are being
beckoned by the fashion industry to videotape, describe, and
disseminate news from the circus that is NY Fashion Week.
Overall,
53% of online teens watch video at least occasionally, a reflection of
how young people tend to be savvy about online media. The regular video
watchers tend to be more "socially influential."
For those who want to be really buff, a Dutch gym is introducing training sessions for nudists.
Summer in Sydney and the hottest song on every radio station is from a 3 piece called, Sneaky Sound System. They’ll be huge in Europe next year.
The Netherlands, the New Tax Shelter Hot Spot
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Thursday, 01 February 2007 |
Go green. Get rich.
Think humanity's problems are too big to be tackled by business? Think
again. Here are nine companies showing how we can make millions saving
us from ourselves.
A SCOTTISH student who posted videos on YouTube is set to earn
thousands after being spotted and signed by Time
Warner. James Provan's latest YouTube hit, The Garden - filmed at his
parents' house in Aberdeen - is already being used as an advert for a
Time Warner internet service. Your date of birth has a bigger influence on your life than you might realize - and all thanks to the Sun.
www.myspaceisbetter.com
- the basic idea is to give people stylish and clean layouts so that
myspace might one day be vaguely aesthetically pleasing.
Apple's new iPhone received more
mentions on blogs than President Bush. The iPhone is seen as a test case for media buying
agencies, as they increasingly try to assess how blogs can affect
product launches.
More U.S. teachers are using national and international online news sites in the classroom. "Students do not relate to newspapers at all, any more than they would to vinyl records".
Apple launches colored ishuffle's
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