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Nick Hodge is a professional geek and digital diplomat for Microsoft in Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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• Anna Liu - My boss’s blog on architectural things I don’t understand.
• Barbora Zychova - I am Number 2 in the Fan Club.
• Brian Johnson - US East Coast EE dude
• Christian Longstaff - Fellow Microsoft AU videographer
• Crowded House - Crowded House reforming
• Des Walsh - Doyen of the Australian Blogging Community
• Frank Arrigo - Frank Arrigo, Head Geek goes to America
• Geek Girl Blogs - The best geeks are girls
• I Work on the Web - If you work on the Web, join the meme
• John-Daniel Trask - JD is a cool geek guy from Wellington. Does cool stuff with all the Microsoft stuff.
• Jukka Wallasvaara - Finnish
• Kurt Messersmith - Because I am sports knowledge challenged, Kurt is my go-to-guy
• Live Spaces - Experimental Only. Duck.
• Mark Szulc - Adobe all-round expert and nice guy
• Me on YouTube - My channel on SueTube
• Michael Kordahi - Delicate Genius, both names apply
• Mossy Blog - Scott Barnes: webdev.guru
• Nas Khan - Third best NZ’er, WPF+Silverlight: Designer blog
• Nic Filingham - Fellow Aussie Enthusiast Evangelist, in Singapore
• Nick Hodge, Excel MVP - Mr Excel, not me. I am MINI me.
• Nick’s Flickr Photos - All public photos are posted on Flickr.com
• Paul Foster - Pommy Microsoft Geek with Robots!
• ScenarioGirl - The state of UX, Accessiblity
• Shane Morris - User Experience Guru
• Stilgherrian - Mr Nerd from crikey.com.au - but really he is a geek
• The Geek Stories - Nick Hodge’s blog on on10.net
• The Geek Whisperer - Ajay bonding geeks and noobs
• The Podcast Network - Cameron’s New Media Conglomerate
• Twitter - Follow me, almost minute-x-minute on Twitter

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The New Nickel-Tube: Google and YouTube

So Google purchased YouTube. US$1.65B in shares, paper-work money or an entry in an SEC filing.
In cold-hard numbers: YouTube has a reported 100 million viewers per day; based on the purchase price, each view equates to US$0.0452 over a year. Or, another way to look at it: as long as Google "earns" US5c for each [...]

First Writely Blog Post

Having recently used Google Spreadsheets , and the better featured EditGrid : I thought it best to give Google's Writely a spin.
As a sidenote, I am continually impressed with EditGrid. The external Web data tool permits automated foreign exchange rate and stock market updating. Every minute or so, there is a [...]

App after App

Interesting read about the future of Web Applications; and specifically their archetypes, by Matt Webb.
From application design, to application size, location and other bits.

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Desktop metaphor, Gone Wild!

Some months ago, BumpTop appeared from Anand Agarawala. "Physical Desktop Interface" using physics to replicate and show what will be possible in the future.
Today, Sony has this cool video demonstration of the future of the desktop expanding from the laptop screen to the desktop.
With the emergence of devices such as holographic projectors, the ability [...]

Our Valuable Virtual Meta-verse Future

In 1988 Mitchell Waite sent me a small paperback to read: Vernor Vinge's True Names. I was a mere, lowly Hypertalk programmer from Adelaide, South Australia. He was an important person.
This book has stuck in the neurons, and now the virtual is becoming real. It really goes to show how hard science fiction depicts a [...]

GeoTravelling

A Flickr account, Firefox, this Greasemonkey script. Hinted at yesterday, in Javascript today! Once it is on the cloud, you can live in the clouds.
Now when browsing images, Flickr adds a visual navigation panel to the right. Finding pictures that are to the North, South, East, West (and intermediates)
My London pictures, being the most [...]

Geotagging: Three Dimensions off our Virtual Future

Nick Hodge, Flickr.com, Geotagged: spent the greater part of today geotagging my images stored in Flickr. Geotagging is the addition of spacial or geographical metadata (that is: latitude and longitude) to my uploaded images. The four cameras I've used do not have GPS, so this geotagging caper is a manual post-processing effort.
The resolution of the [...]

Gartner Agrees with nickhodge.com

Windows Vista the last of its kind: Windows will go virtual, Gartner agrees with my assessment that the future of Windows is componentised, virtualized and smaller.
Gartner expects a significant update to Vista in late 2008 or 2009 that will add virtualisation (in the form of a component called a hypervisor) and a service partition.
You read [...]

There goes that idea

Boeing has announced they are shutting down their Connexion service. I wonder if the recent restrictions on carry on luggage, let alone the complexity of modern travel, has impacted their business plan.
Putting paid to my vision of future Business Travel.

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Thoughts

Something I remember thinking, if not saying, was that the whole NeXT heritage of easier software development tools was going to give Apple a significant competitive advantage with software. We are seeing a plethora of MacOS X based "digital hub" (or digital lifestyle) mini-applications tied to a web-services style backed (.mac) I am sure [...]