Is Australia Ready for the Mobile Web?

A few weeks back I ran smack bang right into the mobile web.

Yeah I know the mobile web isn't new. I have been able to access the web for a while from the crippled bandaid solution of WAP and all its problems, which Philipp Lenssen discusses a lot better than I can …

September is Conference Month.

Well it's coming around again this year, September. And as usual it's full of conferences. The ones in Australia of interest to me are Web Directions South (September 25 to 28) and OZ-IA (September 22 to 23) both in Sydney.

I'm be attended both. It's now locked in, …

10 Ways to Reduce Stress

We are not super human, the web industry is like any other, we undergo long hours of work with the odd all nighter. However recently with the renewed interest in the web, we have at least in the last 12-18 months, been having a bit of a boom. This is great everyone is …

The Bleeding Information Edge

It really makes me laugh that the mainstream media seems to be so far behind what is really happening in the Web Industry and its related communities. Case in point, how long did it take them to realise that Kevin Rose and company at Digg existed, 12 months, report on …

Twitter Lemmings

It was a little amazing last night (WST-AU) Twitter had been a little flaky, but at least it was operational. Then "it" started, someone was talking about alternatives to Twitter. Slowly but surely people went and checked out Jaiku, signed up, collected their …

Anyone for a Barcamp

After a few false starts, Perth gets to have its first BarCamp. BarCampPerth is being organised by the Australian Web Industry Association, for the 30 June 2007, 9am to 5pm at Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth WA.

If you are not familiar with a BarCamp, it is …

Is This The End of Twitter?

It's happened before, several times now, and it will happen again. We have had Odeo, SlashDot, Kiko and Friendster. A new social networking style site is the darling of the Internet world, the word on the A-listers lips. Then they couldn't scale, they couldn't …

Hey this makes it Bold like in Word

I'll admit I have not taken a great deal of direct notice in the development of the HTML5 specification by the WHATWG. I have read over the specification from time to time, that's about it. It's not that I'm not interested; it's been a question of resources and …

A Second look at Second Life

I had a play with Second Life when it was still in beta (way back in the pre version 1 days in 2004). At that point it was interesting, a nice concept, you could just build things, do a little scripting, the client was a little flaky at best. But I could see …

The Day the Music Died

Today (4 May 2007) at 13:15 the music died! The last track played out and finished on the Pandora player and it stopped streaming music to my browser. I knew what had happened. I refreshed the page, and I was locked out, simple.

Pandora, if you have not heard of …

Giving My TV Some Joost

The other day managed to get hold of an invite to the IPTV service Joost, that is currently in Beta (and we all know what that means). First off, I have no invites, so don't ask; okay. Update - I do have a few invites (900+) in reality I think Joost maybe open to …

WebDU - Wednesday 21 March - Minus One

It?s 4.50am in the morning, I was going to save this blog entry till the respectable hours of the morning, but the effects of too much alcohol, MSG on my system has left me totally wired. Better to burn out the sucker, than lying in bed tossing the turning.

First up …

WebDU - Thursday 22 March - Day One

In case you are wondering the mystery program turned up as a daily flyer, so all is forgiven Geoff. Mind you, you?re still not getting of the hook, the program book was okay, nicely done, but would it have killed you to have a cross referencing index. Okay it?s not …

WebDU - Friday 23 March - Day Two

Yes the previous evenings entertainment at WebDU was ?interesting?, in general all had a good time. As normal things ended all too quickly. I have no idea what the people from the US would have made of the ?Kath and Kim? stage show. If you know, post away below. With …

Sexism at WebDU

As I have previous discussed this was my first WebDU. I was hoping that it was not going to be a "boys own web geeks club". And thinking back on it now that I am sitting back here at home among those I hold dear, I think it was. I approximated while at WebDU that …

Designers versus Developers?

It's an age-old problem, we see it all the time, the Public Relations branch verses Information Technology branch. They just will not see eye to ee. Meetings between the two groups are often polite at best. It's like they are from different planets. Marketing …

So We are Getting Naked.

Well it's been a little too long since this blog felt the cool breeze on its skin, and the warm caress of the sun on its tags. So its time shed those outer layers and enjoy the freedom this site was born with, a naked body.

No style, no design, just the raw …

Adobe CS3 Comparative Pricing

There has been some discussion since Adobe announced their new Creative Suite 3 products on the differences in pricing for non-US countries. Adobe tells us that the pricing models for countries outside of the US are controlled by the local Adobe office to a …

Bulletproof Ajax, a Review

I first encountered Jeremy Keith via his book DOM Scripting, and then again in Sydney at Web Directions 2006, where I attended a very good workshop he ran on DOM Scripting.

Unlike Jeremy's first book DOM Scripting, which is basically a getting starting guide on …

Top Twitter Mobile Phone Applications

Well Twitter is well over a year old now and pushing the edges of the G2G universe (thank you Bronwen of Perth Norg ). As expected people have found a use for this technology, from social chat, help desk functions, news broadcast, micro blogging, and storytelling. It …