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Australian Tech Events Calendar
k, k, i invited! but pf44opfb12hherild7h2pl11b4@group.calendar.google.com really needs a friendly name!
Posted 10 Jun 08 in Conference Chaser
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Australia or Sydney as our IT hub?
i think if there's any industry less in need of being all in the one place, and most capable of collaborating remotely, it's ours.
being evenly distributed also has a couple of big benefits:
1. we're less likely to build businesses that forget about the rest of the world (how many silly valley products are only ever adopted by silly valley tech workers?);
2. we can keep profits (if any) safe from the tax man by plowing them right back into deductible business travel; and
3. it makes it harder for any one 'in' crowd to dominate the conversation. silly valley is too prone to pandering to the fruitfly-length attention spans of certain influential individuals at the expense of really considering the value of great new businesses.
Posted 05 Jun 08 in Conference Chaser
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...but still i love it to death. somehow it is the very definition of WTF and FTW in the one device. how is that possible?
Posted 21 Apr 08 in Marty's Tangle
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think i might just listen in afterwards... again...
Posted 19 Feb 08 in 2web Crew Discussion Forum
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Wow, I'm so old that I remember when Notes was bleeding edge. Now it's rusted legacy.
Posted 18 Feb 08 in Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum
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We had some fun recently helping each other put up a huge banner at bluepulse. Turns out, vinyl banners are about the cheapest decor per meter you can find. More photos.
Posted 18 Feb 08 in General Conversation
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This is a closeup of part of my favourite map, a Coastal Walkers Association hand-drawn hiking map of the Budawangs ranges and Morton National Park between Braidwood and Nowra in southern NSW. I've been bushwalking there since I was in my early teens and can just about navigate most common routes with my eyes closed. But the detail, penmanship and hand-drawn lettering in this map are superb and unique.
I have a copy of it framed and hanging at home, and it's about 2m by 1m - kinda large but beautiful. I sketch out each route plan on the glass with a whiteboard marker so my wife knows where to send the rescue party if I don't come home on time.
Posted 04 Feb 08 in General Conversation
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i think the business decisions will happen quickly, but the implications for the products and the teams who build and run them will be a slow, painful, pulling-out-fingernails experience for those involved. i've worked on product development teams at both microsoft and yahoo, and it would be hard to find two product team cultures more different. there will be tears and blood shed and many good products will die a slow and painful death.
Posted 04 Feb 08 in Technology News
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darn, gotta run. big love to the peeps
Posted 29 Jan 08 in 2web Crew Discussion Forum
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