• Ed Hillary passes…

    January 11, 2008

    New Zealand
     

    It’ll be all over everywhere in a few minutes but news this morning that Sir Edmund Hillary, Kiwi hero, first person to ascend Mt Everest and adventurer extraodinaire has passed away. A sad day for New Zealand, Hillary was…

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  • Rod on selling a business…

    January 11, 2008

    Strategy
     

    Sixth and final installment in Rod’s agony aunt advisory series. This time he looks at selling a business. Top quote relates to founders involvement with a business post-sale; The purchaser should want to put their stamp on the business,…

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  • Inside story of the iPhone development…

    January 11, 2008

    Design, IT
     

    Wired has this fantastic article telling some of the inside story of the development of the iPhone. How cool would it to be Steve Jobs? And how cool would it to see what they’re thinking about for 2010?

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  • Dan’s Grab A Seat Gadget…

    January 10, 2008

    IT, Web x.0
     

    Air New Zealand has Grab A Seat, a site which has bargain priced, but limited numbered, domestic air trips. Dan Fowlie, fellow Cantabrian, has come up with a Google gadget for Grab A Seat which allows users to select…

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  • Bill Gates spoof

    January 10, 2008

    IT
     

    Lance pointed it out but the link in his post was dead. Check this out – it’s nice to know that even people at this level can laugh at themselves. It is really him isn’t it?

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  • Property investment anyone?

    January 10, 2008

    Society, Strategy
     

    Ever the optimist, Raf is predicting a possible 30% drop in land prices over the next couple of years. Top quote of the post is this one; Investing now is for the brave hearted, foolish and very wealthy following…

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  • Reacting to the trend towards free…

    January 9, 2008

    Business, IT, Strategy
     

    Chris Anderson is the editor-in-chief of Wired as well as being a commentator – in particular on the long tail. Chris Looks at the trending towards zero in terms of cost for bandwidth, processing power and storage ad case…

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  • DRM/Napster and the 20th century….

    January 9, 2008

    Business, Strategy
     

    It seems like only yesterday that Sony was spending gazillions on a double pronged empire saving exercise. Prong one was shutting down Napster while prong two was fancy schmancy digital rights management to attempt to stop illegal copying of…

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  • Nick Carr’s new book…

    January 8, 2008

    IT, Web x.0
     

    Nick’s new book is out. I haven’t read it yet, still waiting for my review copy to show up. However Nick has posted an excerpt from the first chapter. It’s a dummies guide to Web2.0 (as one would expect…

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  • IT strategies to beat the recession…

    January 8, 2008

    Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, Governance, IT, SaaS, Strategy
     

    Over at Smoothspan, Bob posts about strategies to beat the coming recession (it’s hard to avoid coming to the conclusion that a recession is imminent – all things seem to point in that direction). It’s a great read and…

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