On Thursday and Friday last week I attended Web Directions South 2008, my first web only conference in a while. Overall it was a good event, but like most conferences there were some up & downs. Probably the biggest two downs were the opening Key Note and the lack of coffee on arrival on FridayContinue reading “Thoughts from Web Directions 2008”
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Startup camp Melbourne
Following the success of Startup Camp in Sydney, it’s on its way to Melbourne 3-5 October. What is startup camp? It’s a get together of people from different disciplines that have an interest in startups and do a complete startup in one weekend. From coming up with the idea and making a business plan toContinue reading “Startup camp Melbourne”
Twitter SMS delivery
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on a couple of small side projects, one of which is a services to get your Direct Messages and @Replies sent directly to your mobile phone via SMS, Tweet2SMS. Basically this is to replace the service that Twitter shutdown about 3 weeks ago for usersContinue reading “Twitter SMS delivery”
Google Chrome is the new hype
It has been speculated for a long time that Google was going to enter the browser market, well on Sept 2nd they did with the launch of Chrome. Now there is lots written by the tech community on the launch about the pro’s and con’s of the new browser so I am just going toContinue reading “Google Chrome is the new hype”
Need to learn about web 2.0, come to university
If you are in Australia, and interested in learning about Web 2.0 then you should get yourself to Sydney on September 23 and attend the Web 2.0 University being run as a extra session at Web Direction South. The Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp session is being co-hosted by Jeff Kelly & Stephen Collins and isContinue reading “Need to learn about web 2.0, come to university”
Good the bad and the ugly or is it a storm in a tea cup?
About 2 hours ago Twitter announced they were stopping their SMS notification service outside of the US, Canada, UK and India as it was costing them too much money. Now I completely understand a business needs to make money and the a free service cannot last forever but the way this change has been implementedContinue reading “Good the bad and the ugly or is it a storm in a tea cup?”
Jobs on the go
Over the last couple of weeks I have been pondering the impact of the mobile web on recruitment. As such I have been thinking through several possible use cases but at this stage I have not found the killer app. We have already seen several companies trying to use SMS notifications for job adverts andContinue reading “Jobs on the go”
Social media and Generation Y
A recent report from Microsoft and Insurity in the US found that 71% used IM and 77% used social networking sites on a daily or frequent basis, with over 2/3rds of them belonging to 2 or more social networking sites. But surprisingly 15% said they did not belong to a social network site. While thisContinue reading “Social media and Generation Y”
iPhones are all the rage
With claims by Apple that they sold one million 3G iPhones in the first 3 days it is no wonder that everyone it talking about them. One of the key attractions of the iPhone since day 1 has been the amazing user interface, superb screen and general Apple industrial design. One of the key detractionsContinue reading “iPhones are all the rage”
Yet even more data stolen!
Once again more HR data has been stolen, and guess what again it was not encrypted! This time Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an HR outsourcing vendor, had data for many of it’s clients stolen in a burglary on May 26. The clients affected include Google and CBS’ CNET Networks. The data stolen in the burglaryContinue reading “Yet even more data stolen!”
Michael Specht 