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Entries from September 2010

Australia’s Top Web Celebrities

January 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

PodCamp Perth 2007 - Perth’s Norgs
Originally uploaded by quinncd
Wow, looks like someone things Australia is geeky enough to have celebrities. Cool.
There is a poll on the page to vote.
Vote for Australia’s Top Web 2.0 Celebrities
Vote now, you have 5 days left. And blog it, twitter it, send it to your mother.
Duncan [...]

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Tags: General · Web/Tech

Offtopic: Hammertime

January 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Hammertime
Originally uploaded by Afroswede
This is pretty funny, but I’m reading it as I’m writing marketing hay for Tangler. It makes you realise that you don’t have to write essays to make a point or to get a response.
Simple is stronger, but of course, very very hard work.

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Tags: Offtopic

8 Napkin Questions For New Tech Business Ideas

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Podcast Hotel Paper Napkin
Originally uploaded by websage
These are the ones I use. These are for when one of the people following you on Twitter ask to have coffee to tell you about their new application which is like Facebook crossed with Chumby but better…
You get the question, and what I’m looking [...]

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Tags: Startups

Tech Entrepreneurs And The Gambler

January 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

1st climb of Mt. Rainier July 2003
Originally uploaded by TroyMason
I’ve been thinking about two great quotes and the conflict;
“Never, never, never give up.”
And…
“You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away and know when to run.”
It’s a tough call, with no right answer, [...]

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Tags: Customers · Startups

Twitiquette: Etiquette for Twitter

January 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Canary at Night
Originally uploaded by adobemac
I do like Twitter, and think it has lots of room to grow, but I have a particular way that I like it to be used.
1. Cream of Crop. Twitter is not a complete braindump of everything that happens to you throughout the day. It’s not [...]

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Tags: Apps · Customers

True Local is A Hopeless Web App

January 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

True Local is Hopeless
Originally uploaded by bigmick
Every once in a while I think that in-house marketing teams at the big companies are getting their act together with web applications and that my services will no longer be required.
Then I come across something like TrueLocal.com.au and think - wow, they are light [...]

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Tags: Apps · Australia · Customers

Offtopic: Keeping Toilet Seats Down

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

portable toilet planter
Originally uploaded by fredandcharlie
I think that the goal of women to keep the toilet seat down has been aiming (pardon the slight pun) at the wrong thing.
The goal is that every man should put the toilet seat down after they pee so that when they come in they never [...]

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Tags: Offtopic

On DataPortability

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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Originally uploaded by mk1archive
Nice discussion on My Tangle about Dataportability and the Challenges Therein
Jump in!

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Tags: General · Web/Tech

2008: Year of Going Outside

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

stupid sign: “caution door opens”
Originally uploaded by berbercarpet
This is going to be a big year for big companies venturing outside their own websites. They’ll discover that the Internet is about connected open networks of people, not connections between closed networks. Some are testing the waters with MySpace and Facebook profiles, but [...]

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Tags: Apps · Customers

Where Will People Run To Next? Ambient Media!

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Running Away
Originally uploaded by Heather Garland
Seeing Jeremiah Owyang’s post about 2008 made me think about the cycle of;
(1) The mass of people get sick of controlled media and advertising.
(2) They run away and find somewhere to talk.
(3) BigCo and MassMedia find out where they’ve gone and follow them.
This is how I [...]

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Tags: Apps · Customers

2008: The Year of Big

January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments


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Tags: Web/Tech