A Meaningful Life

Grant Young and I made Smart Companies list today of Australia’s top web 2.0 entrepreneurs. I’m chuffed to be there and Grant who started Saasu with me would probably agree that we look up to our peers mentioned in the article so it feels a bit weird being there.
Top Web 2.0 Teams would be the [...]

I’m finding that I am using Google less and less. Mostly now for specific search such as a device driver update. I know that writing lots of specific keywords will retrieve lots of specific results.
Targeted search - For knowledge and information I tend to hit Wikipedia, Google Blogsearch and Delicious
Consumer choice - I tend to [...]

Ironically, now that Federal Reserves are busy guaranteeing bank deposits they have created a whole new set of problems in the competition for capital.
It would be easy to jump to the conclusion that banks should borrow money at the same rate the government does if it’s now the same risk. It’s not that simple. Fussy [...]

I noticed a bunch of devices Google is supporting for Gmail on Android. Yet again this reminds me of the big difference between the two strategic models. It will be interesting to see how having lots of licensed developers working with a single device (Apple) compares to having a smaller but arguably less constrained community [...]

Watching my 5 year old sons face as he watched this video on TED.com was priceless.

Who’s at fault in the financial crisis? I hate witch hunts, they always seem to burn the wrong person in the end. However I must say that I can’t disagree with restricting payouts to people leaving sinking ships.
One party who needs to be held more accountable are the Federal Reserves. For at least a [...]

I’m really beginning to appreciate the lockin caused by browser plugins. It’s just simply easier to keep going back to my Firefox browser from Safari or Chrome to get some plugin love (time savings). Predominantly, this is a hassle-of-change lockin. Still it’s real.
I haven’t done much research on Safari plugins, I’m sure there are [...]