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I work as a web coordinator for three very different faculties at a university in Sydney. This is my story...

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Scott Berkun delivered the opening keynote for the second day of the conference, and he had just the right mix of humour and facts to get an otherwise rather sleepy crowd kicked off to another exciting day. The title of his speech “The Myths of Innovation” is based on his latest book with the same […]

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I think I might have to warn that this post is a little critical. I do not doubt that Raoul Vera is a very competent and highly dedicated Google employee with a lot of great ideas. However, I do doubt that it was a smart move to let him make this presentation. He admitted himself […]

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This is my first report from the Web Directions South Conference 2007 that is currently taking place in Sydney. 
Rashmi Sinha’s presentation “The Perils of Popularity”
I won’t waste any time on introducing Rashmi, she herself does a good enough job on that one, hehehe! Have a look at Rashmi’s blog.
I think she was a very good […]

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Oh boy, it’s been a looooooooooong time…
Let’s just pretend that this huge break didn’t happen What I would like to talk about today is a bit of a show and tell of our faculty (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney) effort to start a Facebook group. Please […]

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Enhanced Second Life - Outback Online

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Now that Second Life has received a considerable amount of press, it was only a matter of time until another company came forward with a new bold claim to make it all bigger, better, and faster: Outback Online!
As I have already said in a previous post on Second Life, I can quite easily imagine that […]

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Most of the time, I point at other people’s research and then give my 2 cents, which must be quite boring for some of you. However, today, I can finally offer another original piece of research that I was able to conduct, thanks to some of my colleagues (not sure if I could name them […]

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