Tweet 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, MySpace, Second Life, and YouTube. Back in those days [...]
Entries from July 31st, 2009
Innovation and technology predictions
July 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · future
Tweet “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 & from the periphery. Very often [...]
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Cupcake Camp Sydney goes animal
July 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments · ideas
Tweet 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 site & sign up to receive a cupcake kit. Register (opens [...]
Pleasantly surprised by Norton 360
July 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Tweet 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 seen the error of their ways [...]
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Foresight can be handy on Caturday
July 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · LOLcats
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Women's rights still evolving slowly
July 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet 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 equal. But it is [...]
Does being nice pay off for women?
July 21st, 2009 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet 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 and IT. Some of the research merely confirmed [...]
Priorities are important on Caturday
July 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · LOLcats
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Get lots of followers on Twitter?
July 16th, 2009 · 5 Comments · ideas
Tweet 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 for? Even more, who [...]
The old next big thing
July 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · ideas
Tweet 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 growth of these two products over the past 12 months. [...]
