Tonight I'm presenting a lightening talk at the ICT Illawarra event, our final event for 2009. Entitled "Plugging into the Startup Scene", I try to capture in a 5 minute talk some steps that can help Australian technology entrepreneurs to get connected to the thriving and
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I've been around the Analytics scene for a few years now, and one of the biggest hassles with tracking for really really big sites, or sites where security is a massive deal (online banking, etc), has been the need to tag all the pages (for javascript tracking), or
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I've spent a lot of time over the last few months doing marketing planning for Hiive Systems. Unfortunately, our product is targeted at the professional services sector - think consultants, creatives, advisors, and that sort of thing. I've been really conscious in this marketing process NOT to
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We've got some exciting plans cooking in the cauldron over at Hiive Systems, and one of them involves replacing our existing config management system for deployments - a couple of config files separated into always changes and rarely changed parts - with something more scalable, dynamic while still very fast
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The Princes Hwy, the major road from Sydney, down the south coast of Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, ranges from suburban roads to freeways, and understandably, the speed limit along this road varies according to conditions. Through most of the suburban sections, this multi-lane road
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Unfortunately, the next month or two are likely to result in some form of legislation passing the Senate that results in all Australia's having their internet connections filtered using a mandatory, opaque system controlled by an agency of the Federal Government. Way back in January this year, after
Entrepreneurship
The third #publicsphere event was held in Wollongong yesterday (with nodes in Melbourne and Brisbane joining in). With all things that involve an open forum and public consultation, there will be some good bits, and some bits that don't quite do it for you. In terms of contributions
I was lucky enough this week to be a guest of the team from Kells at a lecture they ran in Wollongong, featuring the acclaimed Simon Longstaff from the St James Ethics Centre. The morning lecture, which went for about an hour, with more than half an hour of questions
News broke over the weekend (Australian time) covering the formal responses to the FCC's questions of Apple, AT&T and Google regarding the recent Google Voice debacle. Michael Arrington has written a really good piece on the responses of Apple, and he makes a compelling case that
While it might be compelling political theatre for the hungry Canberra media gallery, a studio audience at Q&A last week made it clear - enough with Ozcar already. Compared to the debate over the Emissions Trading Scheme, the (frankly separate, and first) debate over the targets we should be
There's finally been a lot more people - influential people - waking up to the reality of what Apple has become: more evil, monopolistic and selfish than almost anyone else in the technology business. The fact their products are pretty and the company was once the underdog is no longer
Industry.AU
I've been planning to write a post on this for ages, but time has gotten away. Seriously. Since March the 26th. That's the day I felt politics in Australia be changed by the internet. It was the day Senator Conroy went on Q&A, the