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@MarsPhoenix

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

In 1969, the world looked through their black and white TV tubes at a pair of US Navy Test Pilots bounce around on the Moon.
Today, MarsPhoenix posts Twitters. It is the most personal way of describing what is going on. No press conferences, no scientific pictures or static web site.
Wired Science has an exclusive interview [...]

You watch a video, Microsoft donates to Smith Family

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Simple really. Go to this site: http://www.microsoft.com.au/charity/charity/demo.aspx
Watch the video, and Microsoft donates money to the Smith Family.

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Australia ReMIX08 Redux

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Picture: Matt Moran, ABC Commercial, showing off the Silverlight based ABC Online Store
Blogs

Chris, MSP from UTS: http://www.utsmsp.com/2008/05/remix08-sydney-expression-studio-2-is-here/
DG.TV Wrapup, not featuring me: http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=687
ZDNET on Mark’s Keynote: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Twitter-lets-staff-trigger-nuclear-option-on-bosses/0,139023166,339289106,00.htm
Phil Heltewig, “While Sitecore was only present as an attendee this time, it was still extremely valuable for us, not just from a technology point of view”: http://philheltewig.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E339C3F87E43ABC8!226.entry
Michael Ryan needs [...]

The Nuclear Option

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Mark Pesce, keynoting at the coming Australian ReMIX, presented his piece, The Nuclear Option, today.
Watch and listen here:

Or read Mark's post.

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Duncan Riley: Officially a Web 2.0 Startup 2.0

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

@DuncanRiley, formerly of Techcrunch, has left as a fulltime writer and has started another startup: Inquisitr.com
Described by Duncan as a “mix of tech, pop and fark type stories”, it promises a blog that captures the lighter side of this strange web world.
I, for one, welcome our new Duncan overlords.

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Quokkas in CodeCampOz in Wagga Wagga

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

CodeCamp

Originally uploaded by Lyynx

Hehehehe.
Looks like DG and Maurice snuck into CodeCampOZ to absorb the geekiness and code, ready for ReMIX

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Do Want. VelociRaptor

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

(thanks to Paul for pointing this out)
10,000 RPM drive, 300Gb.

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NSW Internship 2009 Information Night

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Are you a final year Medical Student looking towards an Internship with the NSW Health System in 2009? Then come along on the 22nd May and get the information that you're looking for!

Thanks to Nicholas Rayner for getting Microsoft involved in this info night.

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EEE.TV via Bigpond NextG

Friday, April 18th, 2008

As a recent fan of micro-TV stations, and live podcasting audiences; and as an owner of an ASUS EEE PC, it was time to join the dots.

After installing the Bigpond Next G software for the USB card I own (note: this is the slower NextG as well) over to ustream.tv and broadcast away.
This makes an [...]

Loosely Coupled Communities Across Space and Time

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

 
From Glenn Derene, wiring at Popular Mechanics in “How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It”
… with the rise of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Second Life, LinkedIn and even Google’s own Orkut, the next generation of Web users may find what they want by using their social network [...]

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