Blogging is not as easy as one might assume, what is it that makes a blog successful?
Blogging is not as easy as one might assume, what is it that makes a blog successful?
Mobile barcodes are quickly gaining momentum – they’ve been around for years, I’ve tinkered with 2D and MS Colour Tags for years. It’s really only been in the past 3 or so months here in NZ that 2D barcodes are starting to gain movement. Of course in the USA we have Google rolling out 100,000 [...]
Hot on the heels of my post on How to activate Google Buzz I bring you a quick post on how to deactivate Google Buzz.
You might have noticed there is a lot of noise in Google Buzz and people are now wondering how to clean up the Google Buzz in their Gmail Inbox. Turns out [...]
I’m going to get flamed for this, but okay … !!
I just read a tweet from two of the more respected “guru’s” of the ‘open web’ – Chris Saad and Chris Messina
RT @chrismessina: Someday asking for a site’s API will be like asking which email protocol someone uses. Interoperability FTW!
well .. DUH!
You know what, it’s [...]
Google Buzz, it’s all the buzz right now and as we know Google are rolling this out to all accounts as they can. There is however a quick way to get Google Buzz into your account.
It all revolves around your Google Profile. Don’t have one? You’ll need one, and you need to ensure it has [...]
Following on from my post about the iPad & while I’ve time to write …
There are a number of posts around at the moment talking about the ‘death of flash‘ many that have come out in the past 48 hours (like this one) talk about how Apple will be the death of Flash.
Apple’s closed ecosystem [...]
Unless you were in some time vortex over the past 36 hours you no doubt know that Apple released the iPad, a 3:4 screen with basic computer features. This iPad launched with the usual hype of Apple product launches, and of course every Apple gear head and iPhone user thought “oh wow” and then “oh stink”
What were [...]
Mortgages – something most “grown-ups” have these days. Big heavy things that rest around your neck for 20, 30 or 40 odd years. I’ve even heard of some UK based mortgage companies allowing people to take on mortgages to be passed onto their kids.
Mortgages – the evil (?) that allow us to buy homes, businesses [...]
Life’s one of those funny things, when you are in the middle of it there is always lots going on. When you look back, you wonder – what did I really do? What have I achieved? Of course the start of a new year is often prime time for thinking about these sorts of things.
How many [...]
We hear many stories these days about start up businesses doing some amazingly cool things. It seems we are in the age of the entrepreneur, any one can start a new business, build it up and … well the number of people who’ve made millions (billions) from their start-ups is far greater in the past [...]
11 tools to help reshape how you do business online today
So I’ve been fortunate (?) enough to be part of the Google Wave roll out and I’ve spent some time playing with it. This isn’t going to be a long post there are enough other posts for that on the web – you can find some of them here:
Google Wave – Full of ambition
Full Google [...]
So, you know .. the iPhone, it’s that fancy thing all them new kids have in their pockets. (he he he .. okay I have one too). Well anyway .. it’s great, awesome in fact.
But there’s something new on the block, that’s like the iPhone but never runs out of battery, the screen never dies [...]
The world is moving, analog TV is on it’s death bed and digital TV is streaming into the world at faster speeds, higher rates, better quality. At home we have a dodgy 21″ CRT tv we bought brand new for $250 – yeap big spenders. It’s not ready for the digital world – sadly [...]
UPDATED ZIP file of code now available here
It seems now it’s all the rage to start leveraging some of the new HTML5 spec in your designs, especially now that Firefox 3.5, Chrome & Safari on iPhone 3.0 all support many of the new HTML5 tags.
I started looking into geolocation for html5 recently and most of [...]