The surprising science of motivation – Dan Pink

August 29, 2009

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Andrew Dubber’s Great Blend speech, 21st Feb 2009

July 2, 2009

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Kiwi redux: Google Trends for Websites

June 20, 2009

In June 2008, roughly around the time when Google made Trends for Websites available, I wrote a post about some sites & their trends. Mainly just trends I found interesting. It’s now June 2009 so I thought it would be fun to revisit the same graphs. This time I’ve limited the graphs to ‘last 12 [...]

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Wolfram Alpha

May 16, 2009

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Kiwi remix: Google Trends for Websites

June 29, 2008

Google Trends for Websites is an approximation of the amount of traffic Google thinks your site is getting. So while not 100% accurate, it provides some interesting insights. The rise of Facebook But for NZ traffic only, it’s all about Bebo Ferrit’s sale is seemingly helping their traffic (but is it helping their bottom line?) [...]

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Proof Of Concept

January 6, 2008

I’ve spent the last couple of days mucking around with Twitter. I can’t gauge how many people are using in New Zealand yet but I’m keen to get everyone on it. In a nutshell: Twitter lets you broadcast “what I am doing” by updating your online profile. Those “following” your profile can choose how to [...]

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Goooooogle

December 17, 2007

Anil Dash: Google’s announcement of Knol shows that they understand some of their key business drivers very well; With as much as 5% of the search result links for popular terms going to Wikipedia pages, a solution to capturing some of that traffic in an environment that Google can control and display ads on makes [...]

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Productivity

November 4, 2007

I am not, when it comes to computers, a model power user. Like a lot of people I have my idiosyncratic ways of using Windows XP and the software I have running on it. I am rarely one for stopping how I do something to see if I can do it more efficiently, I’d much [...]

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On Podcasting

August 11, 2007

As one of the unwashed, or one of those without an iPod, Shuffle, iPod mini, iPod nano, etc, I feel like I get the short stick of podcasting. Whenever a website says download our podcast I read that as “download our .mp3 which is probably huge, served from a slow server and then put it [...]

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New Windows XP Themes

August 5, 2007

Zune Theme (.msi) [microsoft.com] Double-clicking the .msi will install this theme. You might want to change that wallpaper though… Royale Noir Theme – Download .rar file [istartedsomething.com] Extract the .rar into the Themes folder usually found in the following location on standard Windows XP installs: C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes //

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