I’m at BarCamp Sydney 2008, get there if you can, lots of great people and content – a perfect storm. Clearly no-one has it nailed on what Web 3.0 will look like, including me. The discussion turned to; web privacy, OpenSocial, OpenID, which device, on vs. off-line and semantic web. So many views and they [...]
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I recently watched a TED talk by Ross Lovegrove who is an organic essentialist industrial designer. I really like his work and that of his mentor Henry Moore. Lovegrove looks up to James D.Watson and Leonardo daVinci. I recommend this TED talk if you believe that the human race would be wise to take lessons [...]
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I will officially be ceasing my personal blog in the theme of simplifying life. Don’t worry, if you like to regularly read the odd crazy rant go to my new writing venue at our Saasu Blog http://www.saasu.com/blog or via RSS Feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/saasu 10 seconds of your time to add the new feed will keep you [...]
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Beautiful design, for 2010′s market. This sums up my feeling. Love it, want one, but damn you Apple, you failed me on my three key user requirements: 1. Play/Burn CD’s to iTunes. 2. Internal optical drive. 3.Two USB plugs at least. Any sales guy or gadget geek knows where I’m coming from on this last [...]
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The old school software industry is under huge economic, cyclical and competitive pressure. Dogs growl and bite when backed into corners. Some comments I have been reading on recent posts about SaaS are highlighting the pressure which is now extending to CIO’s and CFO’s. These key decision makers are having to decide whether to keep [...]
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Seth Goddin’s Squidoo.com caught a little more than the eye’s of Google. Seth has an interesting firsthand Google experience posted on his blog. Seth’s Squidoo.com lets you create online content on a topic you have knowledge about that you would like to share online. Much like Wikipedia, but as the author you get rated by [...]
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Google Reader tells me this morning that I can now share my RSS feed with friends. So the gap closes with Del.icio.us and other content bookmarking tool using humans rather robots to control what is deemed to be a good read.
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Not quite yet, however there is some chat about the idea from Read Write Web. They put this idea up as the next area Google might head into. They are probably right, but it won’t happen for some time. History tells us why. When Google does it will be via acquisition. Google is about SCALE! [...]
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I dropped two generalist feeds from my Google RSS Reader, both well ranked and known. I’m convinced feeds need to be specific. These feeds publish a couple of good posts per quarter but the rest of the content (such as US election candidates) I couldn’t care less about. I want specific information else in some [...]
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All this Facebook hate is misguided. The reality is that Facebook users and Facebook are in a bi-lateral agreement after terms are accepted. Then Facebook provides the ability to let users show what they want in the application. In some cases they don’t give the user choice such as this new feature of revealing what [...]
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In person peoples views are far more open and authentic, even more so than the openness of their blog entries. This is simply because the risks are lower. That’s all it is, the risks. The risks are: looking bad (dumb, stupid, ignorant etc) offending others (customers, minority groups etc) being logged on the electronic record [...]
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Facebook may not have worked it out yet but they are getting played with. 1-2% is nothing, it’s not a takeover, it’s a cheap option to play the game, with a lot more power as an investor. The oldest trick in the M&A world is to “get a chunk”. Taking a bite gives you so [...]
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I don’t claim to be a Web2.0 expert, no-one can, it’s bigger than all of us. However, I read a lot of really good posts on topic and some really, really bad ones so I thought I’d just give you an utterance of my strange sense of humour. Let’s leave aside artificial intelligence (my favourite), [...]
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I always have mixed emotions trying to admire engineering designed to kill people. I took this photo up at Iluka in northern NSW Australia. These old rockets with wings do Mach 2.5 making the F/A-18′s we have look a little slow at Mach 1.8. Don’t worry you military heads out there because Australia is buying [...]
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This morning I found myself deleting RSS feeds from my Google Reader. I was deleting general information feeds that tend to pump out several posts in a day, each one being overly general, long and some cases a bit boring to read. Inadvertently, I was keeping the lower frequency higher quality niche feeds. Of those [...]
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I have been using the Joost Beta for a few weeks now and all in all it’s pretty damn impressive. It’s ability to push high quality video to my lappy far exceeds anything I have seen to date. I was viewing full screen via a slow 56kbps (approx) wireless and it was still coping just [...]
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