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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Smart Company – Australia’s top web 2.0 entrepreneurs

28-Oct-08

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 [...]

My Changing Search Behaviour

28-Oct-08

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 [...]

Government Guarantee is Not a Low Deposit Rate Certainty For Banks

21-Oct-08

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. [...]

Developer Numbers vs Device Numbers – iPhone vs Android

19-Oct-08

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 [...]

James Burchfield the Human Beat-box

17-Oct-08

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

The Blame Game – Hunting Financial Witches

15-Oct-08

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 [...]

Add-ons and Extensions Lockin

14-Oct-08

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 [...]