Web Strategy Micksup

Webware 100 Awards 2008: Thank you for voting!

Originally uploaded by bigmick

Webware 100 is on again and I took some time to vote.
Here is who I voted for and why…
Last.FM - works nicely in the background and makes my blog look cooler (except that I [...]

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Shit up!Originally uploaded by MFinChina
EDITED & UPDATED - QUICKFLIX IS LISTENING TO CUSTOMERS
Rant…
I signed up for Quickflix trial. One month free. We tried it and loved it. Build up a queue of the movies you want to see, they mail them out to you, you watch them at your own pace, and then [...]

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@mpesce and @nickhodge and @twitter - better?
Originally uploaded by bigmick
(Haven’t blogged for a while, so busy, but here is a quick one..)
I had a go at Twitter the other day, and it looked like I was having a go at some of my Twitter friends. Nick Hodge particularly. But I wasn’t.
I was lamenting [...]

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Enterprise Intro
Originally uploaded by bigmick
I’m at Luna Park this morning for a forum on web 2.0 in the enterprise. Ross Dawson and the crew have put together a good four hour program. I feel a little out of place since there are a lot of big big big companies here, but I guess [...]

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Stalker mode
Originally uploaded by bigmick
There is two sides to social metrics. The business side and the user side. This screenshot is one of my first views of how LinkedIn is trying to add more value by letting me see who’s looking at my profile.
It was an interesting experience. I felt like I was [...]

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test tube flowers
Originally uploaded by cyancey
I did a presentation this morning to a great bunch of marketing and media people in Australian Government organisations.
One of their biggest challenges is that they want to do more web 2.0 stuff, but the legal eagles won’t let them try and the IT guys won’t help them [...]

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Change of Guards, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Moscow
Originally uploaded by yeowatzup
I was walking through a great presentation (see below) and I saw that it was saying that kids today may have 10-14 jobs before they are 38.
No way!
Oh, hang on, I’ve already had 8 different employers. Ouch! Reality…
I’m curious to see if [...]

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Media Site Dead Ends

Originally uploaded by bigmick

I was talking the other day about applications that are dead ends. Media sites are the most frustrating for me. They still just don’t get that they are now the end point. They are not the final destination.
Even [...]

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Mick Dans Le Cafe

Originally uploaded by bigmick

Sometimes I work in Toby’s Estate Cafe across the road. $3.50 for a nice tea and some good ambiance and a change of environment. Cheapest office rental in town. No wifi though, but sometimes it’s good to be offline [...]

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Allie

Originally uploaded by huxleyesque

A live post on thoughts on acquisition, retention and monetization
With the advent of social networks, the pace at which new applications are hitting the market has accelerated. Every app seems to have such different degrees of acquisition, retention and ability to actually [...]

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Mick Trapped In Skitchonite

Originally uploaded by bigmick

One of the things I love about what I do is when you build something with a very focused purpose in mind and then someone comes along an uses it in a wild way that you could never have [...]

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ReGeneration

Originally uploaded by bigmick

So many opportunities exist to change your website from a single-point application to a social-freeway. And most of the time it’s not about creating something completely new, it’s about opening up the dead ends and letting the people and the story keep [...]

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Mobile World Congress is on today in Barcelona and from the looks of things, everyone in the space is aiming to wow the crowd with something new.
Read/Write Web is expecting Google to make the GPhone announcement.
And Nokia are having a virtual launch event and talking about it here;

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jjprojects overload

Originally uploaded by bigmick

We have friends that can keep us enthralled with stories for hours. We have other friends who a few coffees each year is enough to stay pals. And we have people we bump into occasionally who add spice to our lives. [...]

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So I’m exactly double what Google promised me early on with Gmail. 1,000 MB offer and I’ve shot past. But they haven’t even bugged me for money. In fact, they have said that I can triple from now and still be ok. And by then it might be 10 gig.
Nuts?
I’m sure the business guys out [...]

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