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Recently, in the UK city of Birmingham, some people were unhappy with their local Council's new £2.8 million website. Citizens took matters into their own hands and created their own version of the Birmingham city website using an open source collaborative platform. We can expect to see
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Here's a few more interesting people I follow on Twitter, & some more evidence that Twitter helps to build real relationships too ;) @mpesce - Mark is a good friend in real life these days (we met originally via Twitter) he's a thinker, inventor, rabble rouser and
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I've been thinking about my recent American Express experience - outlined in AMEX discovers new depths to customer service. It is clear to me that companies have the right to choose which customers they deal with. But it seems that how they remove those customers from the books
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I've been an American Express customer for a long time. But recently they made it apparent that they do not want my custom so I'm in the process of closing my accounts. Unless their customer service tactics are treat 'em mean and keep 'em
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Startup Barcamp Sydney was on yesterday and I managed to drop in. It was held at one of my favourite venues for unconferences - ATP Innovations- and it might possibly be the first barcamp to feature fresh coconut juice in the shell. This event was part of Global Entrepreneurship Week
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Here's a little quote from one of my Gen Y friends on my Facebook wall today: "I won't ever pay for normal news content ever again full stop. If i wanted to subscribe to something niche likes financial markets pieces etc, then potentially yes, but
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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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Stefana Broadbent's TEDTalk video about her "research [that] shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules" - interesting stuff: http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
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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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Really looking forward to speaking at the SME Technology Summit by The Insight Exchange on 1 December 2009. There's lots of interesting speakers: * Tim Pethick - Entrepreneur & Founder, Nudie * Mark Pesce - Inventor, Writer, Educator, Futurist * WilliePang - Managing Director, Search Marketing, Yahoo! Australia * Suzi Dafnis -
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I went for a cheese & wine dinner at Bells at Killcare on Friday night with @frombecca and @JohannaBD. The food - by Stefano Manfredi (a.k.a. @manfredistefano) - was wonderful as usual. The wines selected by Michael Trembath were lovely, the cheeses selected by Will Studd were a
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Last night I attended the 2009 NSW Pearcey Awards & a few people I know were honoured for their work. These are all dynamic intelligent people who are passionate about technology but who also have put in a lot of effort into building community among the tech and startup folks