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05.20.11Infographic: A Look At The Size And Shape Of The Geosocial Universe In 2011Thanks to Jesse Thomas of interactive design agency JESS3, we now have an updated look at the structure of the geosocial universe as it exists in anno domini 2011. It wasn’t so long ago that the International Astronomical Union booted Pluto out of the solar system or that MySpace was overtaking Yahoo! and Google as the most-visited site in the U.S. Well, a few rotations around the sun later, and the overall shape of the geosocial universe has changed dramatically. New stars have been born and others have been scattered out across the cold recesses of Internet space. Today, Myspace ...
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12.18.10What Does Yahoo!'s Delicious Decision Mean for the Social Web?Quick, before you read another word: go back up your Delicious bookmarks. You know Delicious; it's the social bookmarking service that you should have been using for the past few years. At least, that's what I would have told you before yesterday, when the rumor emerged that Delicious will soon be shut down by Yahoo!, which bought the company from its founder in 2005. Given the source and Yahoo's decision to refrain from comment, the rumor is now widely taken as fact. And it's a fact that should trouble every user of the social web. On the face of it, Yahoo! ...
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12.18.10What Does Yahoo!'s Delicious Decision Mean for the Social Web?Quick, before you read another word: go back up your Delicious bookmarks. You know Delicious; it's the social bookmarking service that you should have been using for the past few years. At least, that's what I would have told you before yesterday, when the rumor emerged that Delicious will soon be shut down by Yahoo!, which bought the company from its founder in 2005. Given the source and Yahoo's decision to refrain from comment, the rumor is now widely taken as fact. And it's a fact that should trouble every user of the social web. On the face of it, Yahoo! ...
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12.16.10Intrinsic BankingPaper money does not have intrinsic value Paper money has no intrinsic value. The word “Intrinsic” means: something that belongs to the essential nature or constitution of something else. The ‘intrinsic brightness of a star’ is a common definitive statement. Synonyms of the word include: built-in, constitutional, hardwired, immanent, indigenous, integral, inherent, natural, etc. “Society” is intrinsic to economics The Bank is an important institution for vetting social value. Despite the observation where it seems money is created out of thin air, traditionally a bank looks into a community of people and their talents to identify “social value”. This is the likelihood that ...
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12.16.10Intrinsic BankingPaper money does not have intrinsic value Paper money has no intrinsic value. The word “Intrinsic” means: something that belongs to the essential nature or constitution of something else. The ‘intrinsic brightness of a star’ is a common definitive statement. Synonyms of the word include: built-in, constitutional, hardwired, immanent, indigenous, integral, inherent, natural, etc. “Society” is intrinsic to economics The Bank is an important institution for vetting social value. Despite the observation where it seems money is created out of thin air, traditionally a bank looks into a community of people and their talents to identify “social value”. This is the likelihood that ...
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12.16.102010: The Year the Cloud Rolled InIt's pretty commonly understood that corporate computing has gone through three principal phases: centralized computing first, then the PC Era, then the age of the network. We could easily fit Enterprise 2.0, cloud computing, and lots of other recent developments into the network phase, but I think we'd be missing something if we did so. It became clear to me as I watched the digital economy in 2010 that we had passed a tipping point and moved into a new age of technology use. For lack of a better term, let's call this the Cloud Era. But this age is ...
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12.02.10Flowing Your Identity Through the Social WebSome social networking platforms are beginning to buy into data portability. Whereas any step toward opening up the closed data-silo islands is a positive step, the real question is what does data portability actually mean? Data portability is defined as the ability to “bring your identity, friends, conversations, files and histories with you, without having to manually add them to each new service.” Does this really solve the most important issue that users face when spelunking the depths of the social networking space? This is the fundamental defect with the notion of data portability on the closed Web. The duplication of a user’s ...
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12.02.10Flowing Your Identity Through the Social WebSome social networking platforms are beginning to buy into data portability. Whereas any step toward opening up the closed data-silo islands is a positive step, the real question is what does data portability actually mean? Data portability is defined as the ability to “bring your identity, friends, conversations, files and histories with you, without having to manually add them to each new service.” Does this really solve the most important issue that users face when spelunking the depths of the social networking space? This is the fundamental defect with the notion of data portability on the closed Web. The duplication of a user’s ...
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11.30.10The 3 Steps To Social ProfitsI have been approached by many brilliant social entrepreneurs in recent weeks. They each have several things in common. Each has an incredibly creative idea and a strong passion linked to a deep seated observation that social currency has value. As nebulous as that may sound, it is very real, specific, and clear in the minds of those who I’ll call, The New Entrepreneur. Nothing Economic can happen until two or more people get together to build something. Likewise, when two or more people get together to build something, economic things happen. The objective of this post is to demonstrate the ...
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11.30.10The 3 Steps To Social ProfitsI have been approached by many brilliant social entrepreneurs in recent weeks. They each have several things in common. Each has an incredibly creative idea and a strong passion linked to a deep seated observation that social currency has value. As nebulous as that may sound, it is very real, specific, and clear in the minds of those who I’ll call, The New Entrepreneur. Nothing Economic can happen until two or more people get together to build something. Likewise, when two or more people get together to build something, economic things happen. The objective of this post is to demonstrate the ...
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About Me
CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
Non-exec Director of Queensland Kids
Ex CIO/CTO of Ozmota, Benefon and Voxson.Education
Executive MBA from QUT
High Distinction average
Singapore Airlines International Business Award
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Computer Science from QUT
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