My university commencement speech for 2010 (March 1st, 2010 - 2,443)
This week is the beginning of university life for thousands of recent high school graduates. There is lots of fun to be had, lots of learning, and time to build the vision of where you want to be in the next few years. I have been asked what I would recommend doing – I don’t [...]
Melbourne Google Wave Meetup Report (December 10th, 2009 - 3,499)
Pete Williams and I hosted the first Melbourne Google Wave Meetup last week at the Deloitte Digital offices, with help from Merric Reese and David Warwick. It was great to get 80 people in a room to share stories of what everyone has been using Wave for and also what will be possible in the future. Doctor Wave joined us and [...]
Embrace searching not sorting (October 21st, 2009 - 2,551)
It is a huge paradigm shift but one of the key changes that is happening all over the web right now. Search technology has improved rapidly over the past few years. In 2000 we could search the whole internet faster than our own computer, with Google. Lately though speedy desktop search is a reality and [...]
Your Realtime Cloudification (September 24th, 2009 - 2,269)
Calendar, Contacts and Mail form a key part of your personal infrastructure. Google Apps provides the simplest implementation of this and they have enabled full push support – meaning that any changes you make anywhere are reflected everywhere else in realtime. What does this mean? If you make a calendar entry on your phone it [...]
Inside Twitter: Building a platform for the planetary pulse (July 20th, 2009 - 3,436)
When TechCrunch got their hands on over 300 private documents from Evan Williams’ email account they decided to publish quite a lot of sensitive information, which has lead to some very interesting insights on how they run the company and the direction they are now heading. It’s easy to jump to the thought that this [...]
