future
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
ideas
I always like to keep up with what Dion Hinchcliffe's thinking and recently he's been talking about How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business, and particularly about how businesses are driving the change almost by accident, in spite of the IT department.
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Spoke at the Bunbury ACS Chapter the other night (g'day to @Moist & @nezzle) - about the future of computing and the impact of social computing. We had a really interesting discussion about privacy (and the death thereof as I have been prone to argue) and the possible
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Some have argued that blogs have had their day, for example: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004. A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog I still think
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Reputation is critical for any person or business - we only have to look at the professional reputations of the James Hardie directors & managers in the news today. Social media can be a great way for companies & individuals to build their reputations. But it also means that we
community
A while back Twitter was having some real problems with stability and scalability and it dawned on me that they, like many innovators, had not realised what kind of invention they had made. They talked about it as a 'microblogging' platform, that is, as a very short message
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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
ideas
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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For those who continue to think that Twitter is all about pimple faced geeks sitting alone in the dark at home tapping away on their computers here's another real life event that shows differently. Last Saturday a bunch of us gathered to farewell our friend Stilgherrian as he
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I had the pleasure of speaking, along with Karen Ganschow from Telstra, at the FITT CeBIT lunch today in Sydney. We had a great turnout and there were even a few men in attendance. It's FITT's 20th anniversary this year - a big milestone for a
social computing & social media
When two of the nicest and smartest people I know start talking about a new idea they are working on I get extremely curious. So when @jedwhite (entrepreneur & startup guru) and @mediamum (mainstream & social media maven) shared this video they caught my attention. I'm very curious
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Neerav Bhatt did an interesting post about Encyclopedia Britannica, saying: Organisations in the information industry such as Book Publishers and Libraries would do well to learn from Encyclopedia Britannica’s precipitous fall from grace. Formerly a powerful company that could demand and receive large payments for access to it’s