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Just travelled back from Melbourne and sat next to an extremely spry gentleman of 71 years who spent the entire trip reading on his Kindle . He told me how much he loved this new way of reading. That it can hold 1500 books and he only recharges it infrequently, less
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Crowdsourcing is very trendy these days and is touted as the answer to many of the ills of poor design and the need to reduce costs. In these cash strapped days any way to make innovation better-cheaper-faster is extremely desirable. But crowdsourcing is just one of the many tools we
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A while back I got an invitation to join a new social network 434U & was amazed at the barriers to entry & the onerous rules for participation. It's a new invitation only social network - I do wish them luck. But for me it makes me go
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I spoke at Ross Dawson's SME Technology Summit last week. Here are my slides & some brief thoughts about social media for business: Social Media For Business 2009http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=socialmediaforbusinesssmetech2009-091130163400-phpapp01&stripped_title=social-media-for-business-2009 View more presentations from Kate Carruthers.
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The fast-approaching holiday season is a great time to update your IT systems while everything's quiet. I got to have a chat with Stilgherrian in this week's Patch Monday. This podcast has some nifty suggestions from Harold Melnick, who's Microsoft's senior product
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This is a very thought provoking TED talk from Philip Zimbardo. He's famous for the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. Think about how you would react in certain situations (e.g. Abu Ghraib) - how easy it is to act in ways you might regret later? Hero or villain
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Recently I had the honour of joining Mark Pesce & Ross Dawson on Mark Jones' podcast The Scoop where we discussed the The future of the Web. It was a fascinating discussion - so many interesting ideas to consider: What happens when our real and virtual worlds collide? And
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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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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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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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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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In this day of LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook and Twitter it might seem that networking the old fashioned way is dying. But nothing could be further from the truth. Many real life social interactions arise from these online networks. The old fashioned networking skills actually assist in both the effective use