Entries Tagged as 'Business'
Conditions are right for Kickstarter (May 17th, 2010 - 1,735 views)
Diaspora got a lot of attention as they used a Kickstarter campaign to raise over $170,000 as the “open Facebook alternative”, following another round of Facebook privacy complications. In Diaspora’s Curse, Jason Fried went on to illustrate that while that’s an impressive start (if you measure victory in press coverage and cash), those things will [...]
Networking Awesomely with people everywhere (May 14th, 2010 - 939 views)
The way I think about networking has evolved with the realisation that we have got people everywhere now. We are more connected than ever before and the new messaging networks we use mean that we are now linked with everything in the world through only a few degrees. These connections have always been there, but [...]
Let’s play, with experience design (January 11th, 2010 - 723 views)
The impressions we remember of an event are often based on many disparate elements coming together and integrating seamlessly to form an amazing experience. You can remember an experience that blew you away. But do you know what made it amazing? I was talking to a friend who was a DJ and he said to [...]
Internet filtering: Listen to the people (December 18th, 2009 - 1,571 views)
Senator Conroy has just announced that the Labor government is green-lighting a plan to censor all Australian internet traffic with a mandatory ISP-level internet filter. Kevin Rudd’s election promise was that the filter wouldn’t be mandatory, and this backflip has dramatic consequences. How many complaints does a government need before listening to the people they [...]
Invisible Infrastructure, by Brand (November 24th, 2009 - 1,000 views)
If you visit Southern Cross Station at the moment (as I do a few times a week) you will see ANZ billboards and banners all over the place. What you might not notice straight away is that they have also blanketed the area with free wifi – providing this invisible infrastructure that people will only [...]
