This seems to be my ‘theme de mois’ at present. Perhaps it has come from a realisation that it is very easy in web development to include a few extras and people miss the actual value of them. A challenge while managing and building web applications, and sites, is to...
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Office Space / Coworking Brisbane – using our space better
14 Oct
When we moved into our new office just over a year ago, we were busting the seams on our old space and needed more. At the time it felt like we would need more and more space to keep up. A year later, we have hit our maximum and have...
is Google anyone’s friend?
09 Oct
Don’t get me wrong – like everyone who has been around the web for a long (read:maybe too long) time, Google has been an important part of opening the interweb up to the masses and making many web based things easy. But… As a closet data miner, and Information Analyser,...
It’s a team – from top to tail
17 Sep
What is a team? What makes some teams win over others, and how does that impact on our successes? This past weekend I have watched several sporting events which were big for their own reasons, but out of which I got to observe the real key characteristics of teams in...
Is the end of SMS the end of Twitter?
15 Aug
Readers of this blog will know I like Twitter. And there are many others like me out there. Yesterday I received my email advising me that because I don’t live in 1 of 3 countries, I would no longer receive the free SMS updates of the people I was following...
I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!
22 Jul
Those familiar with the historic fairy tale of the 3 little pigs will recall that 3 pigs set out in the world to make their way and fortunes. Each of the pigs chooses materials to make their house from. 1 chose straw, 1 chose sticks and 1 bricks. The first...
twittering away
18 May
Recently I added the TXT ability to my twitter account, following the badgering and raving of a colleague who loves the way it works. Being a gadget man myself, I just had to, particularly as we both discussed how the simplicity of the tool could be used in numerous business...
when it all goes horribly wrong
10 Apr
What happens when the web goes horribly wrong. Well a classic example is a marketing campaign run by Virginblue Velocity Rewards. I received my points statement and a well hyped campaign to play an online game and go into win up to $70k in prizes. So of course what did...
Ploy me – it’s a casual thing
11 Dec
Recently spoke with one of the founders of Ployme a newish site for managing casual work for people around Australia (for now). Very cool idea and very clever way of dealing with this space. I am sure there are a bunch of businesses in hospitality and other areas that will...
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