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The history of the internet
Found this online today and enjoyed it. Most info-graphics tend to be rather selective in terms of the highlights depicted. This one is good and strikes the balance well IMHO. Via: MBA Online
Posted: August 22nd, 2010 under Computing, IT, Internet, Pop Culture, Viral.
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Internet debate on TVNZ 7
Last nights debate was a fun event to watch and more importantly engage with. The use of twitter, irc, Facebook provided viewers with multiple channels to take part in the show. I can recall only 1-2 questions from the studio audience, such was the power of the net community in terms of the size of [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2010 under IT, Social Networks, Television, Twitter, Viral.
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Iphone first steps
I’ve been using my iPhone for just on one day and so far the experience has been largely a positive one. The only major hassle on day one was unlocking the phone via iTunes. The problem being finding the right drivers for windows 7 64 bit so it could recognize the hardware. After loading a [...]
Posted: November 21st, 2009 under Computing, Daily Life, IT, Pop Culture.
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IPv6 Urgency
I recall attending a IPENZ professional development talk about 6-9 months ago in Dunedin in which the subject of the rapid decline ofavaliable IPv4 addresses was aired. Next year is crunch time (see counter above) and based on the estimate of a million new devices connecting to the Internet each week – you’d better believe it. Great to [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under Computing, IPv6, IT.
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Blogging & hours in the day
Phew.. there seems to be not enough hours in the day right now. Perhaps this is just a stage we all have to go through from time to time and it’s my turn – ok I’ve had my fun can I get off this bus now? As time permits I hope to blog a bit more [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2009 under Computing, Daily Life, Family, Home Server, IT, Microsoft, Windows 7.
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Geekzone
A plug for the good folks at Geekzone – a great New Zealand based IT resource for users looking for news, views and more! I visit the site most days – www.geekzone.co.nz
Posted: June 16th, 2009 under IT, Viral.
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Zannel
Zannel may be a web 2 service that is worth a look at. Some have described it as Twitter on steroids – not sure about that but it does offer picture and video export to Twitter & Flickr plus a bunch of hooks in to Facebook, WordPress and Fire Eagle…a bit more than good ol’ [...]
Posted: April 25th, 2009 under Computing, IT, Pop Culture, Social Networks, Twitter.
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