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Common Craft – social software in plain english
These Common Craft guys are clever. They use simple and short videos featuring manipulated paper cut outs and tidy metaphors to explain the tools and concepts behind social software. The first one I...
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Magic and delight
Some technology simply surprises and delights. I’ve posted about the web applications developed by 37signals before – their products give you what you need and nothing more. You never feel like you’re...
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Data visualisation
Flowing Data is a great blog with some startling examples of data visualisation – visualising data to understand it better (note that some of the content on the blog might not be appropriate for...
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The iPhone is not a phone …
… it’s a computer – equivalent in computing power to a year 2000 PowerBook or an XBox or a PlayStation2. It’s a fine example of ubiquitous computing and convergence (a global positioning system plus...
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Liberating our digital content
I’m the first to let my mind wander when someone talks metadata to me, but Digital New Zealand has converted me to its power. I posted recently on this initiative from the National Library. Well,...
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Jelly at Boost: Friday co-working for free
Jelly at Boost is casual co-working in Wellington. Every Friday we open our space for 10 people to work, drink our coffee and steal our wifi for free. We are a small part of a large international...
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Boost celebrates Halloween
Halloween at the Boost office was celebrated with an office wide costume day. Among some of the more familiar figures were Jack Nicholson (from One flew over the cuckoo’s nest), Michael Jackson and...
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Boost leading the way in ibeacon technology
Apple recently announced the introduction of iBeacon technology. Wikipedia describes iBeacon technology as ’a technology that enables an iOS device or other hardware to send push notifications to iOS...
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