Entrepreneurship
After spending yesterday afternoon in the office in a hack-a-thon - hat tip to Glenn for joining me - and much of today getting a plan together for CeBIT this year, I was feeling pretty amped about the month and a half ahead and the challenges therein. So it was
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CeBIT is happening in a month and a bit in Sydney, and this year they've decided to focus the eyes of the tens of thousands of show visitors on a new showcase section, called Webciety. Webciety is going to showcase a dozen of Australia's hottest web-software
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My company, Internetrix, has been expanding into the Chinese market gradually over the last year or so. Part of this has led us to register a couple of .cn domain names. As a result of some plans we made a year ago, we registered a .cn domain name, in this
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I wasn't that surprised to read Mike's post today about some really bad stuff happening over the last 6 months. I didn't know the details until I read them on TechCrunch, but I knew something was up when I messaged him to let him
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A month or so ago I was prodded by @pat on Twitter to take some direct action on the #nocleanfeed issue. For those wondering what the hell #nocleanfeed is all about, check out http://nocleanfeed.com. From their website: The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to
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I'm in the anti-mac-fanboy-club, but you've got to feel for Steve Jobs. Rumors about his health hits the company's stock price like a profit warning, and now Corporate Governance experts are openly questioning whether the reporting on one man's health in a
ConsumerWeb
Uncharacteristically short post this time: Dan Whitworth has an article at BBC's Newsbeat site about Facebook being so popular it accounted for almost 5% of all page views on Christmas Day. I've got three theories for why this might be: * The Facebook generation have enough of
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I first discovered Pandora as a houseguest of Mike Arrington's back in early 2006, and was immediately hooked. Unfortunately a year or so later, back in Australia, Pandora started blocking access since I wasn't coming from a US IP address - all over about music licencing
Entrepreneurship
Just a few late night reflections on the (Sydney-centred) Australian Startup Community, and more particuarly, SiliconBeachAustralia.org at the centre of it. While I've personally been playing the startup game on and off for a while now (first with Internetrix, which is now pretty established, then Omnidrive that
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Last week, Telstra got booted from the National Broadband Network process, where the Australian Federal Government will be spending about half the amount of money they (wasted) on the bogan bonus to fund/subsidise an improvement in Australia's broadband capacity down to the last mile. Telstra, the largest
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On a recent trip that included China, half a dozen stops in Europe, and some time in New York and San Francisco, someone skimmed my corporate credit card. My bank, Bankwest, has a pretty impressive fraud detection system, and when someone (I think based in China) made a $1 transaction
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I recently got a letter from a law firm in the US, alleging that my new business, Hiive Systems, has infringed their trademark. Unfortunately for them, the best they could do in claiming a trade mark was allege our logo was similar to theirs (we don't think it