I attended a briefing held by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) called Directing Tomorrow Today: The Essential Director’s Update. For me this is a must attend event, as there is a wealth of quality information provided on current issues relating to the essential process of quality company directorship.
There is an enormous amount of [...]
At Edge of the Web 2008 I discovered something that I hadn’t seen before – over a third of the audience was using Twitter as opposed to taking notes. And it was a good thing…
If you are giving a presentation, do you want 100% of people’s attention? You might think so, but perhaps not anymore. [...]
A colleague of mine, Thomas Murrell at 8mmedia has just emailed me with his observations on Obama’s oratory skills. This post is not meant to be political, but Tom’s review of the way President Obama speaks provides a good insight into how great speakers do the job. Tom coaches people on how to present (amongst [...]
Information is now hitting the web about Microsoft Azure and how this benefits Cloud Computing.
Reactions so far seem mainly positive from the Cloud Computing newsgroups that I subscribe to.
Microsoft’s market position is to leverage the environment they have and increase availability to the Cloud. Their advantage has always been around architecture, and for many organisations [...]
Interesting presentation from Seqouia Capital (according to Venture Beat)
Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression recession)
I was showing someone Twitter today, and then later found out that someone has done that already much better with the Twitter Song…
One of the downsides of being a Mac user is the difficulty in synching a Windows PDA phone to your Mac. You can resolve that two ways
Buy an iphone – no good if you are still on a contract paying off another phone
Get Syncmate from Eltima software
Syncmate is now available with a free [...]
Recently I took Google Adsense ads off my blog. Why?
Two reasons
No one was clicking on them
I wanted to use the space taken up by Google to promote my own content
To be fair, I haven’t spent hours and hours tweaking Google Adsense formats, and perhaps if I had I might have got a better result. However, [...]
In the same way that the television screen has been overtaken by the computer screen, I am beginning to wonder if Mofuse (the mobile version of my site) might overtake direct traffic.
Just checking my stats for yesterday – quiet day on the blog, 26 page views according to Google. Feedburner has 33 people subscribed via [...]
The ipod has really changed the way we use music – we’ve got 3 in our household (4 if you count my original 40 gig hard drive version that died). But the potential for the iphone to change the way we get and consume web based information is vast.
So, you’ve gotta get mobile. Thankfully, it [...]
