Automation is more than machines doing work for you. It’s about MACHINES and HUMANS following RULES religiously. Keeping multiple todo lists is very bad. That would then be a list of lists = FAIL. One work list and one personal list is plenty. Coincidental results are when you shift your approach to a task in [...]
iPad non-porn by Bob Parson’s marketing machine at GoDaddy. Tech Zealots and how to spot them in the wild. Megashark infographic. It’s the absolute truth. Without civil liberties, government is just a criminal racket by Stilgherrian The secret to great work is great play – so that would mean it’s no-longer work, right?
If you want to know why Newscorp isn’t happy with Google crawling it’s content then here’s a quick graphic to explain. Search engines unlike most other business models have a right to use your content by the permission you give them to allow their robots to crawl your web content. To date News has allowed [...]
Personas is an interesting project by MIT Media Labs that provides you with a visual representation of the use of your full name online. It really is an aggregate of all people by that name so it’s more interesting in an artistic and an infographical sense. I created one for " Marc Lehmann " as [...]
I remember as a child walking out of the movie Tron and thinking "I love anything to do with the future". Movies like Tron, War Games and Star Wars were the seeding inspiration around my life as a product builder in financial markets and more recently in web applications. What’s really interesting is how Apple [...]
Making a followback decision is a little easier keeping these indicators in mind… Gaming = Followers / Following Snub = Following / Followers Newbie Status = o_0 Groupie Ratio = Ave # followers of those you follow / Ave # followers of your followers Bankwagon Status = joined Twitter more recently that Ashley Kutcher and [...]
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Often I find myself sitting next to Emma on the couch working on watching my laptop while she watches the TV. I realised I am only about three TV shows from zero dependence on traditional TV content (House, Boston Legal and NCIS are the TV shows if you are interested to know). If they were [...]
Why no baby tweeps? Teens don’t want mum and dad to see their chat. Tracking = bad idea. No, very, very bad idea. Their personal brand is already promoted on Myspace and Facebook through status updates (also with photo content). Why risk leaving this party for one with less people who are also a lot [...]
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Tilt-shift is a very appealing technique to me. I love photography and when I first learned of the technique from Adrian Lynch on his Flickr.com account I had to learn more. I used a de-focus feature to blur the top and bottom of this photo I took in Tokyo. You can see the miniaturization effect. [...]
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I have had a few discussions with tech savvy customers about avoiding tech during your holiday break. This topic is clearly a divided camp. Personally I can switch off from tech for about a week but that is about as long as I can handle going dark (as Geeks call it). Here’s 7 reasons supporting [...]
I have had numerous arguments with parents who I wouldn’t call tech savvy. Generally these are parents judging Instant Messenger, Facebook or MySpace not having really tried them and not understanding the nuances of the technology. Parents who don’t want their kids chatting or putting any information online because of online predator threats. Well this [...]
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I always forget how to screen capture because I’m a bit of a Switzerland in that I like and use both Mac’s and PC’s. So this post is my quick reference guide. Let me know if you have any others? I’m a MAC Command + Shift + 3 = entire desktop Command + Shift + [...]
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BarCamps are always good, always free and always inspiring. You find out stuff you had know idea about and debate with people on stuff you know a lot about. It’s a primordial soup of tech ideas and views without an internet filter applied. Top 5 tips for BarCamp 5. Have something to say, if not [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Google Apps has added Google Video to the Premier paid version. Secure and private video sharing being the main pitch. This could be quite useful for Saasu given we have videos managed internally and would much prefer them to be managed by Google now that access controls look like being in place. Lots of implications [...]
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I was playing with my iPod tonight moving the volume up and down with my thumb while I was listening to a Moby track. It was pure boredom that had me do it and it felt like working a turntable a little. My startup shoulder devil whispers two words to me. iPhone app. A DJ [...]
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I received an email from Google Apps notifying us that we are getting a 15 day subscription extension on our Apps Premier account basis outages in August. We didn’t actually experience much of an outage outage at Saasu. Very commendable of Google and it totally maintains my trust in their brand and the SaaS model [...]
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I had an experience today reading a post in Google Reader which when I later opened the post on the bloggers website I realised it simply wasn’t as clear and easy to read as it was in Google Reader. Google Reader had cleaned it up quite well. So for bloggers out there it’s worth a [...]
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Well at 4:30pm today Aust EST it was official. Vodafone wins the iPhone deal. Do I have to accidentally drop my Blackberry? Do I divorce my Blackberry and go for the younger more nubile SaaS enabled iPhone? Might wait a while, let all the cool kids go first.
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If I was in Jack Dorsey and Biz Stones I would be monetising their Twitter asset fast, damn fast. Sell it, open it up, whatever it takes. I think they aren’t far away from being standardised out of their current business model unless they can quickly fix their scale problems. Driven by reliability issues on [...]
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A couple of weeks back I wrote about User Designed User Interfaces. I talked about financial markets traders loving lots of info packed into the screen for screen real estate efficiency. Well I found a theme that meets my objectives but I’m not sure about my readers. However, I have a theory people are people, [...]
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Microsoft says it has a strategy to take on Google without Yahoo. See the Wall Street Journal story or the CNET story for details. I don’t think this is over, it’s normal to put some flushing press out there to make the seller feel a little regretful and uncomfortable. Google is moving fast, time is [...]
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There’s plenty of frustration amongst social media commentators about the steadfast attitude of many enterprises towards the adoption of social tools. More specifically, accepting the philosophy of Enterprise 2.0. Ross Dawson of Future Exploration Networks and Stephen Collins of AcidLabs amongst others have often commented in detail on this topic. They have pointed to some [...]
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One of Australia’s top IT Journo’s brad Howarth wrote Saasu up in his lastest Dynamic Business article on Automating Businesses. I’m a product person and often struggle trying to write how I feel about our product (I’m confident I’m not alone). Brad just seems to have the knack of communicating it without all the ‘tech’. [...]
It’s old now, but you simply can’t watch this video too many times.
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It was strange for me moving from a trading environment to the software as a service industry (SaaS). One of the biggest differences I noticed straight away was how sparse web pages were. Even the early web tools like online banking and broking portals were so inefficiently designed. They failed to optimise screen real estate [...]
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Twitter is a community website where users post publicly or privately what they are doing during their day in succinct comments (140 characters). In my opinion, the magic 140 characters and getting a feel for peoples day to day lives are the biggest reasons for it’s success. It keeps communication precise, moving it away from [...]
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