Archive for October, 2007

The social network in your pocket - the video from Podcamp Perth 2007

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007


Stew­art Green­hill aka the Green­Guy has pos­ted the video of my ses­sion the social net­work in your pocket on viddler.

Leopard and Merlin XU870

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

I have yet to pur­chase my copy of Leo­pard, but from a couple of com­ments on one of my pre­vi­ous posts on the XU870 and Tiger upgrades. It appears that upgrad­ing to Leo­pard also breaks XU870 sup­port out­side the US for the unwary.

I found a help­ful post of a Ger­man Mac users Google group. Roughly trans­lated (cour­tesy of Google translator):

PodCamp Perth 2007

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

I came, I saw, I learnt, I presen­ted and throughly enjoyed myself, even if over too quickly.

The most sur­pris­ing thing, was that while the first Pod­Camp in Aus­tralia was sup­posed to of been organ­ized by Adam Pur­cell and Jared Mad­den. I met them early in the day, but they dis­ap­peared into the crowd and did not even present. The organ­iz­ing of Pod­Camp Perth 2007 seemed to be handled by Bron­wen (of Per­th­Norg fame) and Simone (of EnjoyPerth fame), with the help of a large num­ber of Perth people.

The social network in your pocket

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

If you wondered why it has been quiet around here lately, I have spent the last two weeks research­ing and pre­par­ing for my present­a­tion at Pod­Camp Perth 2007.

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WebJam Sydney

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

My second Web­Jam was inter­est­ing event. Held after WDS07 on a Sat­urday even­ing, in front of a couple hun­dred people. What was inter­est­ing was the line up of speak­ers. The biggest sur­prise for me was the lim­ited num­ber of local speak­ers, there was three inter­na­tional speak­ers Andy Clarke, Aaron Gust­afson and Chaals from Opera, add to that the WA con­ti­gent of me and Myles and you had I think 9 locals.

Perth that happening digital city

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Some of know that Perth has very act­ive digital com­munity, we beat Sydney 2 to 1 in vot­ing for the inaug­ural Pod­Camp Aus­tralia. How­ever, the first week of Decem­ber looks like it will outdo any­thing that has happened here in the past. With:…