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Entries from January 2009

What Group Tools Do You Use

June 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Celestine cluster

Originally uploaded by jaja_1985

I’m curious, what group tools do you use? What websites and apps let you connect with people that you share a passion about?
Do you connect with some groups regularly and some groups once a year? Is the frequency of your [...]

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Tags: General

OT: Beardless

June 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

who is this guy

Originally uploaded by bigmick

When I asked my wife what she wanted for her birthday she said, how about you shave that beard off for once.
Well, it was either that or the diamond earrings!

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Tags: General

Ninemsn Search Will Beat Google

June 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

ninemsn Secret Search - Powered by Live Search - Results

Originally uploaded by bigmick

I just saw NineMSN’s, powered by MSN Live Search (now with Vista), new strategy to beat Google. Every time you search you get a chance to win prizes.
Click the pic to see [...]

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Tags: General

Sydney Shared & Coworking Office Meetup: July 3

June 26th, 2008 · 17 Comments

352 Kent St Sydney, Coworking

Originally uploaded by bigmick

ALERT: CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Click here for the details
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The Sydney Shared and Co-Working space is getting closer to a reality. We’ve looked at a couple of places and how it all works is coming together. The space will have [...]

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Tags: General

OT: Surpisingly Sydney

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Train Map Sydney

Originally uploaded by bigmick

I’m looking for interesting, quirky, fun, different experiences in Sydney that you have done and loved that still exist.
Could be……….
A restaurant that services food on frisbees.
An art gallery that only uses lollypops.
A theatre that reenacts great battles.
A park [...]

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Tags: General

iPhone Email from Optus

June 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Gmail - The iPhone you’ve been waiting for

Originally uploaded by bigmick

See the pic.
No price.
No plans.
Come on!!

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Tags: General

Social Filtering and the Wisdom of My Friends

June 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

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Originally uploaded by bigmick

From the, ‘Hmmm?’ box, I was thinking about how the only Facebook application I still really use draws on the Wisdom of My Friends.
It’s Visual Bookshelf. I record what books I’m reading and what books my friends are reading.
And here [...]

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Tags: General

Big Week Of Geek: Sydney

June 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Big Toe eats his bedtime sweets.

Originally uploaded by mwboeckmann

There is a lot going on this week, here is a wrap up.
Monday;
SyXPAC - at Atlassian

Tuesday:
Bye

Wednesday:
Pubcamp

Thursday:
100 Best Aussie Web Apps
Apple Store Opens
Drinks for web hobbits - at PJ O’Briens on corner of King and Clarence
Google App [...]

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Tags: General

Startup Sales and Marketing Planning Tool

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Medieval Festival, Fort Tryon Park

Originally uploaded by urbanshoregirl

Just passed this on to Lingopal and thought that others might find it handy too. It’s just a simple tool to have a roadmap for the next 6 quarters of what the main things you’re doing. Whilst we [...]

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Tags: General

Australian iPhone Links (Updated)

June 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Optus - Personal_Mobile - iphone?

Originally uploaded by bigmick

I couldn’t find these on the telco sites or through their search. Or even through Google. Had to rely on Twitter - the wisdom of my friends.
Feel free to add any more links if you have them.
Key [...]

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Tags: General

OT: How do you type?

June 9th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I am constantly surprised by people in the techness web IT Internet industry who two-finger type. They generally tell me that they are fast, but it looks slow. Especially compared to speed typers, which is how I like to think of myself….
So what are you?

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Tags: Offtopic

Australia as an IT Hub: Nation or City?

June 5th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Debate: can we afford to allow our efforts to be spread across our big wide nation, or do we need to focus them on a single city? And if so, what city?
I’m a big believer that despite all the great technology, nothing yet beats having people in the same area and bumping into them time [...]

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Tags: Australia · Startups

Australian Tech Industry Event Calendar

June 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

*SMILING PUG* CALENDAR SET # 2 JAN 08

Originally uploaded by *SMILING PUG*

I don’t know about you, but I struggle to keep up with what good events are going on around this geek-booming country of ours.
So I whipped up this;
A Shared and Public Calendar of [...]

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Looking for Funky Office Space in Sydney?

June 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

If you’re in web technologies and are interested in sharing some very nice space in Riley St Darlinghurst, please get in touch with me asap.
A few of us are looking at some big, open plan space, and hope to take most of it, but there is some available and we’d like to see who’s [...]

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Non-Geek Skills for Geeks

June 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments

@media 2006 - Geek tattoos

Originally uploaded by Francis Storr

Interesting article here on what skills IT manages wish their IT people had.
My thoughts…
I agree with most of it. Don’t know that risk taking is that important, or at least not at the level of an entrepreneur, [...]

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