Looking forward to Pubcamp Sydney
Kate Carruthers “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…
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…
#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…
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-mémoirehttp://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&style=rotate&publisher=91b467b0-fcb3-4e42-95e0-1f04ad0c9be9
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…
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…
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…
Customers & Web Page Peformance Expectations
The faster and better the web gets the higher our expectations become. For example, “ewer evidence shows that broadband users are less tolerant of web page delays than narrowband users.…
PDC 08 & WomenBuild… inspiring career paths in technology
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…
Some Good Customer Service
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…