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'Father of the Internet' Lists Flaws in Original Design
The very smart Vint Cerf sharing some of the things he'd change about the internet (via Fora.tv). Fascinating stuff. http://fora.tv/embedded_player
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Is Mordy Koots a glimpse into the future of entertainment?
I had the pleasure of running into Jim Shomos the other night & he was telling me about his latest project - Mordy Koots. This project is amazing in the way that it brings together so many of the threads of film, gaming, web and social computing. Lots of the
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Blog action day 2009: What can one person do? #BAD09
Today is Blog Action Day 2009 & the topic is climate change. Given the urgency of the issue of climate change and the upcoming international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, we think the blogosphere has the unique opportunity to mobilize millions of people around expressing support for finding a
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Kind supporters of Cupcake Camp Sydney
A number of organisations have stepped up to offer prizes for Cupcake Camp Sydney. I wanted to take the opportunity to thank them for their generosity, and also to show the prizes that our cupcake makers could win. The Plantronics has provided one of their Discovery 925 Bluetooth earpiece. It
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Social Networking – Past & future
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
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Innovation and technology predictions
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 the innovation is not a completely new
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Women's rights still evolving slowly
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
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don't fall in love with your social networking platform
I remember that two years ago the we were all fussing about MySpace. Then last year we were all abuzz about Facebook. And this year the big thing is Twitter. What this means for most of us is that we ought not fall in love with a particular social networking
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Is social computing just increasing our anxiety?
Since the early days of the internet revolution and web 2.0 I've been watching & participating in various ways. And over the past few years I've seen its powerful properties of network amplification working in practice. My friend and colleague Mark Pesce has recently discussed
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Dr Happy and the future summit.
Here's Dr Timothy Sharp - who's also known as Dr Happy - from the Happiness Institute talking about the Future Summit and why he took time out to attend.
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Engineers building a new future!
Here's Daniel Almagor from Engineers without Borders talking about why he thinks the Future Summit is important to help us "engineer a better world":
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Live local challenge - what I learned #livelocal
Approach My approach was that of an ordinary outer suburban Sydney dweller. I wanted to see how easy it would be to live locally using the local shopping sources - malls, supermarkets, farmer's markets - without travelling long distances to specialist sources. I also broadened my thinking to