Eureka! – a study just published tells us that Facebook (and other social networking sites) have a significant educational benefit. The crux of the findings are that low decile students, those formerly found to be at the lower end of the digital divide (statistically speaking) are leveraging their quality time
Unlimited Potential is a network based in Wellington, New Zealand. It aims to connect ICT professionals and let them leverage the power of community. Start-Up is a media rich site aiming to connect tech start-ups and their entrepreneurs with good quality resources from all over the place. Silicon Welly is
A little while ago I posted asking the question “can you really trust a bootstrapped startup”. I received a number of comments on the post, most of which came from the perspective that trust isn’t an attribute that results from how a business is funded, it’s something built through actions,
I came across an interview over on GigaOm with teen entrepreneur Daniel Brusilovsky. Seems Daniel is the 15 year old founder and CEO of TeensInTech, a social media site for, not surprisingly given the name, teenagers. He’s got Loic Le’Muer and Robert Scoble on his board, and has picked up
Wikipedia has always been know as “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”. Contrast this with this editorial recently published in The Guardian by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. In the editorial Jimmy modified his definition somewhat to now read; (Wikipedia is) the online encyclopedia in which any reasonable person can
iYomu is now dead and buried – the decision has been made to pull the plug on the site tomorrow. I’ve already posted a little about this but I thought it apt to quote from iYomu founder David Wolf-Rooney – not in order to add salt to his wounds but
A guest post from the Unreasonablemen.net This might be obvious but I see it time and time again. Old world companies are so fixated on risk that they are going nowhere. Old world companies behaviour can be characterised by panic, followed by engaging consultants and outsourcing to drive down cost
I met this morning with Alan Cox, MD of LeftClick. LeftClick is a really cool post-click conversion services company that has shown some pretty impressive results for their e-commerce clients. I first met Alan at a business roundtable where he was bouncing some ideas of people for a SaaS product
New research by You Gov shows that one person in ten regularly accesses the Internet from a mobile device. Jumping on this trend, the broadband comparison sites are suggesting that mobile will displace fixed line as the default method of Internet access by 2010. The research not surprisingly shows that
Nick posted about the new HTC offering that could very well eat (at least some of) Apple’s lunch. Sporting WCDMA which should be rolled out in New Zealand by the end of the year, the HTC Touch diamond is a pretty sexy unit. It’s Tri-band, it’s got WiFi, coverflow (in
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