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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
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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
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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 http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&style=rotate&
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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
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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 Feed
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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 are
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The faster and better the web gets the higher our expectations become. For example, "[n]ewer evidence shows that broadband users are less tolerant of web page delays than narrowband users. A JupiterResearch survey found that 33% of broadband shoppers are unwilling to wait more than four seconds for
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PDC 08 is the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference being held this year in Los Angeles, California from October 27-30. PDC is the conference where Microsoft displays its upcoming technologies, roadmaps & gives a sneak peak into the future of the Microsoft Platform. Its targetted at Solution Architects, and Cutting Edge
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Just had a totally different customer service experience with Joven of Virgin Mobile, at Centrepoint in Sydney. Got a new mobile broadband modem and had a few issues connecting it to my Macbook. He sat down and fixed it for me, told me to call him if any other issues.
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A really unusual thing happened today. I had some spare time in between meetings and found myself in the city shopping precinct. And, since I’ve needed a new watch for a while, decided to go shopping. I have no preconceptions regarding price – I just want a nice looking silver
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When HTML was first invented I got really interested in the precursor markup languages and did a bit of research on them. I discovered TeX, GML, SGML and learned how they had been used. Then I started to learn about HTML. It was elegant and simple, almost sparse. An ordinary
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A tweet from my Twitter buddy Warlach earlier today got me thinking about certain skills that one should never admit to having mastered. Many years ago Wendy McCarthy told me that in her youth typing or shorthand were skills to which an ambitious young woman should never admit having mastered.