Over on Geekzone Mauricio wants to send someone into space. Here on Diversity we’re not up to that level (yet) but we do want to send someone to the bleeding edge. I’m a firm believer in the Net PC…
Below is the story I told as an introduction to the session I helped facilitate at TelecomONE… see if you can dot-the-dots and pick out the question in the story… Once upon a time, in a land far away,…
Sitting here in the Mahurangi College at the end of day one of TelecomONE, the unconference which seeks to be; a vehicle for helping to drive Innovation into Telecom, to harness what works for people, to share what people…
Now here’s a brave, brave man. We’ve all been hearing recently of the step change that broadband will bring to New Zealand – it seems to be one of the big election issues with both main parties coming to…
It was interesting to read this post by Ben (another Ben) who details the rise and rise of Vodafone’s community forum site. Ben says that there is a reluctance within corporate New Zealand to invest the time to build…
A friend of mine is involved in creating a community website overseas and recounted to me an interesting tail. It seems had a preference to using one of the open source content management systems, and maybe going out to…
At the TechCrunch 50 conference Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley uber investor was quoted as saying that there is a ceiling in terms of CEO salary for a startup, beyond which you begin to “have issues”. For a more general…
I posted a few months ago about the fact that the NZ Government had purchased the national rail service (that they sold a few years previously but that’s another story). At the time I said that; Bear in mind…
At the recent office 2.0 conference I had the good fortune to listen to a panel on which Doug Harr of Ingres spoke. I’ve swapped a couple of emails with Doug and came across a post on his blog…
TechCrunch waxes poetical on the threat to Microsoft, and in particular the exalted position of Outlook, that Facebook poses. TechCrunch says that; Facebook succeeds because it is the killer web application for communications and personal information management. Facebook Mail…