Twitter rich115's Recently Played TracksToday I spent a good part of my day at the Leading Lights Conference, an event held by the Department of Industry and Resources.
Firstly, let me say that I’ll be excited about any opportunity to hear Steve Wozniak speak. So it was a joy to be at an event he was keynoting. It should also [...]
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Ron Peno, from News, has blogged a request for people to nominate the 50 most powerful and influential Australian women in social media.
I’m always a fan of anything that gets people discussing the state of play in the web industry in Australia. So I’d love for any readers to jump on over to the blog [...]
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Today I’m giving a presentation at the National PRIA Conference. It’s a brief one, as part of their Generation Y panel: Where Now Generation Y?
Makes me feel young ;).
Last Friday I was also given a chance to present at a lecture at Edith Cowan University. PRN2121 - PR Techniques. They got a preview of the [...]
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I noticed an article on Techmeme this morning titled Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Have A Business Plan In Three Years.
At face value the title would suggest that the author, Kafka, thinks that Facebook currently doesn’t have a business plan. In the blog post’s first paragraph, he confirms his thought.
If you’ve had a nagging suspicion that Mark [...]
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The other day Gary asked a question in my blog’s comments.
This maybe a rude question. But the entire web 2.0 (bad term) seems to be only a young players space. When you have no responsibilies, family, kids, mortgage etc. When you have lots of free time to work on that crazy idea and bring it [...]
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The beauty of starting an Internet based company, is that there are so many online resources that can be used for research or networking. Here are a few that I think any Australian web startup should keep handy.
Twitter. Well, duh, really. If you’re involved in the web industry in Australia, and you’re not on it, [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I noticed John Haining had started a “poll” to pull together a list of “Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 Gurus in Australia.” The aim was to submit the suggestions to the Australian Government for an advisory committee of web 2.0 practitioners.
I’ve always said that anything that gets Australian’s thinking about [...]
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Since the end of 2007 I’ve been actively speaking to a broad range of Australian Internet companies about my company’s services. One thing occurred to me very early in the process: large corporates own the Australian Internet.
Now I might be a bit slow, incredibly naive, or both. But I had a Utopian view of the [...]
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There has been a bunch of talk recently about the credit crunch/slowing economies and start-ups. Yesterday I noticed an article on Techmeme: How start-ups can survive by Rafe Needleman.
It’s a great list of things to do, but I think it’s a great list of things that any start-up should do in any economic environment.
So let [...]
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Richard Stallman has no doubt had a massive effect on the way open source, free software, and even the web has developed. But I can’t agree with his blanket statement about “cloud computing.” “It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign.”
Any thing we do with software, including stand alone applications or cloud [...]
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