Sep 9, 2008
You could fly to San Francisco, be horrified at the cost of even a cheap hotel room, then spend USD500 just to be there, or you can watch the TechCrunch50 conference live on USTREAM and just pay the streaming bandwidth cost. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a USTREAM live video stream acceptably from Australia, so if that’s been the experience for you too, give this one a try – it...
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TechCrunch50 live on the web
May 2, 2008
As some of you may know, Elliot and I are toiling away building TrippyThing, a website that turns unfriendly, jargon-heavy confirmation emails from travel booking services into understandable, friendly, shareable trip itineraries.
We hope to tell you more about our launch timeframe for TrippyThing soon.
Right now, we need your help to add to our collection of travel booking confirmation emails.
These are...
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Will you help Trippything?
Mar 27, 2008
Why do so many people in tech management find 3D interface so strangely addictive, when it’s clinically proven to be idiot-forming? Techcrunch reports that AT&T has been developing a new web 3D browser, Pogo, based on Mozilla. I’m amongst the readers who reacted with a strong WTF? at the news, though it brings up some important points about interface design, following trends, and...
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AT&T: if I have to learn your interface, you’ve failed
Mar 11, 2008
Here I am in full iPhone Fuzzycolourtm at the dining table with Yorke Hinds, the devbrain behind Quivalent, once my favourite email newsletter marketing platform, and Zookoda, an excellent tool to help bloggers manage RSS email subscriptions, a product now in the portfolio of PayPerPost.
Peepl have been dropping around to our house a bit lately, mostly to sample our fantastic fresh-ground Forsyths coffee...
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This morning in da house: Yorke Hinds
Mar 10, 2008
Facebook adds political party affiliation Originally uploaded by thatjonesboy.
In place of the original vague "libera/conservative" affiliations we now get actual political parties, which is great if you vote for the same political party every election and agree with their entire platform, which is… rare. But make no mistake, this is a step forward.
In Australia, all Federal parties...
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Facebook wants to know about your politics
