Archive for July, 2008

I might be fan of the TransPerth web pres­ence. How­ever, their cus­tomer ser­vice failed for me big time tonight. Work­ing late, I caught the 1935 train home from Perth, so I could con­nect with the 541 bus from Wel­lard sta­tion to drop me off outisde my house. The trip went well until the train attempted […]

While look­ing for inform­a­tion on mobiles, I came across 12 Myths of Mobile User-Interface Design by Aaron Mar­cus from Feb­ru­ary 2005. So I decided to review the myths given the arrival of the iPhone 3G in Aus­tralia and other recent changes.

The Myths

There was some noise on Friend­Feed yes­ter­day after­noon, about the new search engine on the block, Cuil (pro­nounced cool). There was enough noise, that Read Write Web wondered How Did Cuil Get So Much Pub­li­city the answer in ped­i­gree ex-Googlers with IBM’s Web Foun­tain and Altav­ista background.

So like many oth­ers, I went and checked it out …

Do you have a Win­dows Mobile device and are jeal­ous of the Safari Browser on the iPhone? But can not or do not want to get an iPhone, well the latest Opera browser for Win­dows Mobile 5 or 6 is for you …

About six weeks ago, the Twit­ter fail­whale raised it’s ugly head and like many of my twit­ter friends headed off to look at altern­at­ives, the two new kids on the block that week where Plurk and Friend­Feed. Over 50 of my twit­ter friends joined both Plurk and Friend­Feed.
Most of my twit­ter friends only had […]

I was hop­ing for a quiet night watch­ing the Tour De France, check­ing Friend­Feed occa­sion­ally. I was sur­prised to see Duncan Riley pos­ted 70 fresh blogs for your Feed Reader on Inquisitr and in the OPML file is the feed for this blog and the feed for my side pro­ject Gov2.info. So I thought I bet­ter pull a Louis Gray and write a blog post in 20 minutes thank­ing Duncan for the plug …

The under­ly­ing themes of the recent Future of Media and Pub­Camp seem to be Journ­al­ists vs Blog­gers as ilus­trated by posts by Stephen, Stilgher­rian and others.

Ser­i­ously old media types, this story is over 10 years old. New media has been mak­ing inroads in old media well before then.

A lot of Aus­tralian are unim­pressed with the offer­ings of three tel­cos offer­ing iPhones in Aus­tralia. All the plans are heavy on tele­phony and light on mobile data. The excep­tion are the Optus who are offer­ing low tele­phony, mod­er­ate data plans. For $39 a month you get 500Mb of data + $34 worth of […]