Aide-Memoire
From the monthly archives: July 2009
Social Networking – Past & future
Looking back to 2007 – and it seems so long ago now – social networking was just starting to get a bit of buzz happening.
Some of the social networks that we were talking about in 2007 included Bebo,
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”.
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
It is easy to look at a statement like this and poke fun. Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
But as I have said on many occasions – innovation always comes unexpectedly & [...]
w00t! Cupcake Camp Sydney is on!
Date: Friday 28 August 2009
Time: 5.30 pm – 7.30 pm
Venue: CBS Interactive Sydney
We are running this as part of the RSPCA Cupcake Day fundraiser – if you are a cupcake maker you can go to the RSPCA [...]
Quite a few years ago I uninstalled Norton AntiVirus in complete disgust as it slowed my PC down to the point where it was almost as bad as having an actual virus.
But recently, while chatting to some of guys from Symantec, they assured me that they had [...]
It is very easy for young, well-educated urban women in Australia to think that we have achieved equal rights both here and overseas. Consequently one often hears comments like ‘I am not a feminist, but of course I believe in equality’ – and the speaker often genuinely believes women are [...]
Not really – especially for women – according to some research by Guido Heineck that was cited in the Daily Telegraph recently.
None of this is a surprise to me due to a long participation in business and, in particular, male dominated areas such as finance [...]
Many times every day I receive tweets from people saying ‘get hundreds’ or ‘get thousands’ of followers on Twitter. And every time I wonder what their frantic getting of followers really gets them?
It also gets me thinking about the nature of social media and social networks. What are they [...]
I can recall when both Twitter & Friendfeed were talked about as the next big thing. But that was a long time in the distant past (almost 12 months ago) and an aeon in internet terms.
Thomas Hawk shared an interesting chart showing the [...]
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