Posts tagged in ‘innovation’

The future is here (II)Posted on September 24, 2009

So most people know, Sydney woke up to an apocolyptic scene on Tuesday as a 400 km wide and 2000 km long dust cloud covered the city and produced the craziest light.
For an idea of how insane the dust storm was, check out the video below (it’s worth watching until the end).

The media [...]

Tags: Cool websites, innovation

Facial profiler - so much potential but so badly executedPosted on August 31, 2009

I have a theory that there are only about 14 faces in the world, and we’re all just a sub-set of them. I’ve seen a girl in Thailand who looked identical to a friend in Melbourne except she was Asian. I’ve seen black versions of chinese friends. And I think I have quite a common [...]

Tags: customer experience, innovation, social networking

Web Week comes to SydneyPosted on August 23, 2009

Earlier this year I was gutted to miss the New York Web Week by a couple of days. But things are looking up as Web Directions launches Web Week from October 2-9 in Sydney. And even better, loads of the events are free.
The schedule is already packed with awesome events, from an exhibition by [...]

Tags: Conferences, events, innovation

Brave - and possibly suicidal - website from SkittlesPosted on March 1, 2009

Skittles (those little addictive sugary candies) have just launched a very brave website. I say brave because it completely turns the idea of a corporate website on its head and throws out the brand to its users.
If you go to Skittles.com, it loads a little Skittles toolkit widget - on top of a twitter [...]

Tags: Marketing, customer experience, innovation, transparency

My iPhone reviewPosted on November 26, 2008

Tags: Design, Usability, innovation, random thoughts

Like maps? In Sydney?Posted on October 13, 2008

My brother Steve has organised Australia’s first Ignite event, Ignite Spatial, coming up on Wednesday 12th November at the Occidental Hotel on York St, Sydney.
What is Ignite? It started in Seattle by O’Reilly and it’s a night of presentations and entertainment. Each presenter has 5 minutes and has 20 slides - each slide goes [...]

Tags: events, innovation

A beautiful and tragic Flash piecePosted on October 7, 2008

The BBC has put together a brilliant Flash piece around the timeline of British police shooting innocent Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes after the London bombings in 2006.

It’s a fantastic use of Flash, incorporating maps, story-telling, photographs and CCTV footage of the incident, as reported in the trial of the police officers. It’s [...]

Tags: Speaking engagements, innovation, politics

Build your own Power bar (as long as you like sugar)Posted on September 17, 2008

Element Bars have just launched a site where you can make your own protein/power/nutrition bars by picking your ingredients from the website and buying them in packs of 36.
It’s a great idea as I don’t like the commercial nutrition bars available - they are always too sweet and make me feel sick as I [...]

Tags: innovation, random thoughts

Get off the slush pile (or rifle through it).Posted on September 2, 2008

Photo by Flickr user Makani5

For most of my life I have been obsessed with reading and writing - I was a nerdy bookworm when I was a kid, and grew into a nerdy bookworm as an adult. I’ve always been fascinated by the publishing process; from submitting a manuscript, getting on the slush pile, getting [...]

Tags: innovation

I wish Flickr or Facebook would add thisPosted on

The new version of Picasa (being released today) has an upgrade in facial recognition, meaning you won’t need to tag every photo.
Picasa’s facial recognition technology will ask you to identify people in your pictures that you haven’t tagged yet. Once you do and start uploading more pictures, Picasa starts suggesting tags for people based [...]

Tags: innovation