Social Recommendator update
After seven years, a simple refresh of http://socialrecommendator.com.
18 Posts
New Jira is low contrast
So we got to use the shiny new Jira 4 at work last week. It’s all a bit more polished, more ajaxy. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s more …
Getting “Londoned” – losing your email account
This is the collation of last week’s interesting APWG mailthread on getting “Londoned”, when your GMail/Facebook/… account is compromised and all your …
A case for the iPad
I love gadgets! I’m a techno consumerist, and maybe even a little bit of an Apple whore (although I don’t unconditionally bend over for Steve!). …
Social paraSites
We already had online virusses and worms, now we got paraSites too. The word ‘parasite’ comes from the Greek ‘parasitos’ (but then in …
A Twitter social support system
Just the other week I experienced two occurrences where Twitter was used by business for product support, which I’d like to share, for those who still …
The new browser war on a tv set near you
Just watched this cool bullet-time-like movie (you know, the Matrix) on the Philips site as a demo for their 21:9 cinemascope tv set due out this month. Great …
Reputation as a Service
I don’t remember who it was they were quoting yesterday morning at Sun’s Let’s Talk breakfast presentation on Cloud computing, but Facebook …
Change the Web Challenge
SocialActions.com throws a challenge at web developers: “Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find …
A saphe Xmas
The Xmas season is upon us, as evident by the Xmas trees appearing in shopping malls, and the Xmas promotions filling up our (e-)mailboxes. One such Xmas promo …
Mapanui at Ignite Spatial
Next Wednesday I’ll be presenting Mapanui at Ignite Spatial: What if a presenter could tell you their spatial story within 5 minutes? They have 20 slides, …
BarCamp Sydney - November 15th, 2008
BarCamp Sydney is back! This time for one day only in the fantastic UNSW Roundhouse. Join us for interesting people talking about interesting things in …
Tackling Social Poverty - Blog Action Day
Poverty manifests itself through different guises. When we think of poverty, we’d immediately recall a homeless person or a malnourished African child, a …
Reality Mining
Technology Review has a special report on 10 emerging technologies for 2008. One is Offline Web Applications, which I’m not going to talk about, …
The Social Web
Off to WDS07, four days of web overload. Tuesday a Beginning Ruby on Rails workshop, to get a kickstart into RoR. Wednesday Mobile Web design and development …
A busy month of web conferences: Oz−IA, Web Directions, Hatch day
(http://www.oz-ia.org/2007/ “Oz-IA/2007 - Sydney, September 22nd/23rd 2007”) Still recovering from BarCampSydney2 on only last weekend, an other …
BarCamp Sydney 2
Today’s BarCamp Sydney, second edition in 2007. Unfortunately the UTS open day was also on, so we didn’t get the rooms we expected. Still great turn …
Google Developer Day 2007
10 cities, one world, one company: Google. Sydney is up first, with some exclusive announcements, hours before the rest of the world hears about them. 700 …