Over the last couple of years, I've been getting increasingly concerned about the future of our city. Leaving aside the rot exposed through the ICAC investigation, I've been mostly worried the future of the city from an economic perspective. Are we going to be a place
General
I'm looking at moving my company's mobile phone services over to Telstra, and I wanted to do some checking of whether my new Nexus One (gift from GoogleIO 2010) was going to work on the NextG network. While some of the frequencies (2100MHz) overlap, my Nexus
Technology
After making the decision to move our JIRA and Confluence development stack back in-house (after a year or so of using JIRA Studio), I also took the opportunity to pick up a few of Atlassian's other products thanks to their disruptive $10 Start Deals. One of these products,
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
Technology
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
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
ConsumerWeb
I've been getting into using Facebook a lot more in the last week, spurred on by the need to prepare for my presentation during CeBIT's Webciety event about what enterprise software can learn from Facebook's incredible level of user adoption and engagement. With its
ConsumerWeb
Well, I'm not really embracing stalking, but as a user of Google Maps on my mobile, I've been pretty intrigued by the concept of Latitude. One of my biggest frustrations when it first came out was they the only way to use it - through iGoogle
BusinessWeb
I'm writing a talk for the Enterprise conference at CeBIT, which tries to unpack what makes people spend hours and hours a week interacting with and updating Facebook, and what enterprise applications - particularly those that benefit from collaboration and which are often "higher level" tools
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
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
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