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The Un-Email Generation

One interesting thing about teaching accounting students at the university is that I get to ask them what they think about various web trends that I follow. It's nothing formal, more of a straw poll or temperature check. But it still helps me to understand a more mainstream

The LOLs Prayer

Sometimes when you're having a bad day the only recourse is Ceiling Cat: Our Cat, who art in ceiling, Hallowed be thy LOLs. Thy cheezeburger come. Thy wants be done, On floor as it is in ceiling. Give us this day our daily Noms. And forgive us our

Social networking traffic v. email

Late last year Hitwise reported that social networking internet traffic surpassed email service internet traffic in the UK. This trend was also noted in Asia. This is a signifier of a shift in the role of online social networks, and ordinary people are increasingly finding utility in social networks. This

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

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 http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&

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