Sep 08 2008
SMH: Mind over splatter
The SMH ran a piece today on Emotiv Systems’ “mind reading” technology. Well worth a read.
Archive for 2008
Aug 26 2008
Web 2.0 University at Web Directions South
If you’re going to WebDirections South next month and feel that you’re just not Web 2.0 enough, you should check out the Web 2.0 University Executive Bootcamp being put on by acidlabs:
If you’re building and delivering next-generation online products and services, this intensive, day-long course will provide you with a thorough grounding in the revolutionary world of Web 2.0—a set of design patterns and business models that are reshaping the face of the Web. Web 2.0 defines a new set of rules for optimizing online businesses by leveraging intrinsic strengths of the World Wide Web that have only recently been fully understood.
Web 2.0 Bootcamp leads you through a deep exploration of the latest ideas, business models, trends, and techniques behind Web 2.0 with a special emphasis on proven, actionable methods for creating new online products and services – or transforming existing ones – using a Web 2.0 model.
About Web 2.0 University:
Web 2.0 University is the world’s leading education service to help business and technical leaders move their businesses into the 21st Century. Web 2.0 University contains practical and hard hitting premium education that delves deeply into the design patterns and business models for taking businesses fully into the modern online world.
Web 2.0 University can be found at http://web20university.com.
Aimed at both the Fortune 500 and web startup audience, Web 2.0 University delivers must-know knowledge on how to design next generation online products and services. Thousands of product managers, executives, and architects on three continents have completed this highly rated Web 2.0Â education.
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Aug 26 2008
WebDirections South 2008
WebDirections South 2008 is only a month away. The whole IDM development team are looking forward to attending and hearing some great sessions such as Douglas Crockford on Ajax Security, Pete Ottery (g’day Pete!) on Developing for iPhone and Mark Pesce on This That and The Other Thing (just to name a few).
What is WebDirections, you ask? Probably the go-to event for web development. Just ask the WebDirections folk:
About Web Directions
Founded in Australia in 2004, by long time web industry figures Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp, Web Directions conferences bring together the web industry’s leading experts from around the world to educate, entertain and inspire our attendees.
Our major conferences, Web Directions South and Web Directions North, are held annually in Sydney, Australia and Vancouver, Canada, and cover the full range of interests for web professionals - web design, front-end and and back-end development, information architecture, interaction design, accessibility, data visualization and much more. Our more focussed conferences home in on specific areas and segments, such as User Experience, and Government.
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With all our conferences and events our commitment is to
- bring together the best possible speakers - knowledgeable, entertaining, inspiring real world experts
- cover the issues, technologies, concepts and techniques web professionals need right now
- keep a clear separation between conference content and commercial communication - we have a clear no “pay to speak” policy
- provide the best possible value for our attendees - we try to deliver as much as possible, for as little as possible.
- help attendees connect with their peers through social events, and our own online networks like meetweaver
In short - we put together the events we’d want to attend, and we trust you’ll want to as well.
Can’t make it this September? Head over to Japan for WebDirections East 2008 in November.
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Aug 07 2008
Aurora: A vision for future web browsing
Jesse James Garrett and the team at Adaptive Path have produced Aurora, which is a concept/vision for how future web browsing might look. They’ve produced some great videos to demonstrate the concept (Part I and Part II). I especially like Part II so far - very relevant to my previous post of The Next Big Thing.
Aurora (Part 2) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
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Jul 29 2008
MyCareer, roll back new search
Well, that didn’t last long. Barely one day after rolling out a new search box on the home page, the MyCareer team have rolled it back. I couldn’t reach anybody at MyCareer for comment, but they may be doing A/B testing and this is their Plan B, er…Test B.
UPDATE: It does look like A/B testing: Check out http://mycareer.com.au/?searchtype=a and http://mycareer.com.au/?searchtype=b for the different recipes (thanks “jb” in the comments).
After having a bit more of a chance to test around with the new search refinement on the results page, my new comment on it would be: overwhelming. MyCareer, if you guys are going to roll back any of the search features, consider rolling back the big overwhelming search refinement box and make it a bit less prominent. Either move it to the right, shrink it or remove that gray background and border. Having the refinement that size, on the left of the page, with that design just makes it the centre of attention on the page. It is great functionality for search, but it doesn’t deserve that prominence.
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Jul 27 2008
MyCareer rolls out new search
UPDATE: Looks like some of the new features have been rolled back.
Looks like the MyCareer team have been busy over the weekend, just today rolling out fantastic new search capabilities.
The changes are immediately noticeable on the home page where they’ve done away with the Search / Advanced tabs and simply exposed the same functionality using a “More options / Less options” link. Second, Google Suggest-style suggestions are offered for keywords.
But the real changes come to the fore on the results page. Taking up the left quarter of the search results page is a refine panel, allowing you to drill down into Location, Sector, Work Type, Salary and Date Posted.
Try a search for yourself at http://mycareer.com.au/jobseeker/search/results.aspx?s=503&q=project+manager&sal=100000&nl=15256&state=nsw&c=3.313
Well done to the team. Looks like a great step forward.
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Jul 16 2008
Future of Media Summit
I attended the Future of Media 2008 Summit today. Held simultaneously in Luna Park, Sydney and in Silicon Valley, it featured many big names in Media on the panels. For my full write up, have a read of the TechNation post that I wrote based on my notes.
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Jul 16 2008
Hosting company fail
Looks like Optus weren’t the only ones to have a bad day. My websites were down for a short period of time tonight (as far as I could work out). The hosting provider is not fessing up, but I think there was some sort of change to the php.ini file that caused the source files to be downloadable. Massive fail. So, now, with passwords and such changed, all the sites are back up.
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Jul 03 2008
How would you describe LinkedIn to a friend or family member?
That’s exactly the question LinkedIn themselves wanted to answer, so they worked with the folks at CommonCraft to make a video explaining LinkedIn.
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Jun 25 2008
ZaaBiz article on TechNation
I’ve written my first contribution for TechNation on ZaaBiz, a social network for businesses. Check it out and let me know what you think, in the comments over there.
