Looking forward to Pubcamp Sydney
"Do you ever get the feeling you don't really understand where the Web's heading (let alone this Web 2.0 or Web 3.0 you keep hearing about) or that it's leaving you behind? You're not alone. The simple fact is
Kate Carruthers
Psychology of why reuse fails - courtesy of GeekAndPoke
This amusing cartoon by Geek and Poke captures one of the important reasons why so much of our planned software reuse fails. Thus projects often fail to achieve the economy of scale benefits from the business case.
Within companies there is often little trust between departments and an unwillingness to
#myspacedev jam Sydney 0.1
Went to the inaugural MySpace Dev Jam in Sydney today. Great chance to hear from some startups that are doing some work with MySpace and an extremely funky venue (see some pics here). It was interesting to see how they are using Open Social and they have extended this in
New Oz IT Calendar
Great new Oz IT event calendar by Mick over at Pollenizer.
To add events, invite pf44opfb12hherild7h2pl11b4@group.calendar.google.com
By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire
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The power of hypertext & hyperconnection - the semantic web we are weaving
I had seen this clip on YouTube ages ago but recent thinking made it relevant again when a friend shared it on Facebook. As discussed recently we unleashed tremendous power with hypertext and enabled hyperconnection.
But this clip reminds me that we also changed the nature of information and how
Beam me up John Chambers
This is one of the things that reminds me of how much Star Trek and Star Wars have informed my technological dreams.
Here, in late 2007, Cisco demonstrates an "On-Stage TelePresence Holographic Video Conference". It's billed as the "World’s first Live Holographic Video
Coming out from the walled garden - Globe and Mail
In really interesting move the Canadian news site Globe and Mail have just opened up their site for free. No more walled garden!
As they put it "the locks are off" and "every Globe columnist, daily horoscopes, crosswords, Sudoku puzzles and a suite of news-tracking tools