Twitter - first impressions
I’m surprisingly taken by Twitter. When I saw it mentioned on Heather’s site I had a look and, frankly, thought that it’s just a wee bit odd to post little snippets of your life out into the world....
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Season’s greetings
Whatever you’re doing over the next couple of weeks, have a happy and safe break away and here’s to a fantastic 2007!
View ArticleSo that was 2006
Although we’re more than a fortnight in to 2007 already I’m going to put 2006 to bed by recapping some personal highlights and disappointments.Two thousand and six rapidly turned into a blur of a year....
View ArticleOld Skool no more
So, yesterday, I buried my Old Skool Flickr identity and “merged” it with my Yahoo! account. I’d put off doing the meld on other occasions when the Yahoo! corporate machine made noises but this time...
View ArticleMeetup momentum
Had a good meeting at the Auckland Web Design and Development Meetup last night.There were some new but well-known faces and quite a buzz about future meetings. Bitter-sweet for Nathan , I should...
View ArticleTeeter
Are we teetering on the brink of a dangerous Internet? Are the misanthropic hordes at the door? The recent, appalling, threatening, behaviour towards Kathy Sierra plumbs a new depth from the...
View ArticleiPhone
C and I were in San Francisco, on Friday, coincident with the much anticipated launch of Apple’s iPhone. We saw the queue stretching up Stockton Street and into O’Farrell at midday, then in the evening...
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BarCamp Auckland
The countdown is on to the free, web community, “un-conference”.Whether they know it, or not, everyone attending is an expert at something and has the opportunity to present and generate the content....
View ArticleAltered state
A change is as good as a rest, so they say. So here I am changing wasabicube again in the quest for the Holy Grail of layout and design satisfaction. You’ll notice the adoption of slab serif in the...
View ArticleWouldn’t it be cool if...
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could search video or still images by sketching a rough shape from a scene and having a search engine identify all frames that contain that geometry?
View ArticleBarcamp Auckland 2
Ludwig and his team at Botany Downs Secondary College come through again. Sign up now for Barcamp Auckland 2 immediately!
View ArticleWebstock workshops in Auckland (and elsewhere)
Calling all Auckland web types! The wonderful folks at Webstock are organising a nationwide series of workshops and mini-Webstocks in the coming months starting in Auckland on May 5 and 6 with Andy...
View ArticleMachine tags for Twitter
With the advent of applications such as Brightkite and Twitter bots, people are starting to Tweet what are, essentially, machine data via Twitter. It occurs to me that a prefix of “#m” for example...
View ArticleIt’s not about the iPhone!
It’s about the price of data.The iPhone 3G launch presented an opportunity for vodafone to get behind a phenomenon. To tap a market that sits between the teen-aged texters and the business babblers. An...
View ArticleCounting down to Web Directions
It’s become a bit of a tradition to spend the last Thursday and Friday of September in Sydney for Web Directions South and this year’s no exception. Usually C and I add a few days to the gig and see...
View ArticleWebstock 2009 - Day one
Just spent a great day at a workshop run by Heather Champ and Derek Powazek.A fabulous insight into what it takes to run a community web site from the ground up: from the whos, whats and whys right...
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I’ve recently got back to some 3D modeling. This effort occupied quite a bit of the Christmas holiday. Conveniently, I suppose, I’d come down with a bad cold so I had an excuse to sit around the house...
View ArticleMetadata
Metadata is data about data; from the dictionary: a set of data that describes and gives information about other data. The smallest element you can resolve is pure data, everything else is metadata.Any...
View ArticlePrivacy
“If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.” Nothing to fear unless you have a very good definition of “wrong” and know precisely whose definition is being used.Another popular...
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