DeeKnow’s Grotto

Auckland web developers meetup – 23/June/2011 Meetup.com is one of those many web services people flocked to enthusiastically a few years back when it first appeared on the virtual social landscape. I signed up for a bunch of meetup groups imagining my cloud community horizons expanding explosively and began mentally preparing to get along to [...]

The Cisco Collaboration Community hosted another live chat via Twitter today as part of the series of open discussions about collaboration and unified communications. This latest session was focused on “new collaborative workspaces, how they’re effecting the way we work, and the key technologies that are driving these changes” Twitter performance seemed a little slow [...]

I’ve just figuratively come back down to earth after what to me was the ultimate boys own adventure. A few weeks ago now I got to take a daytime jump-seat ride from Auckland to Queenstown return in an Air New Zealand 737. Yes, for those that know I’m a simmer, this time it was a [...]

Last weekend Kym decided enough was enough and she would have to procure her own Laptop seeing as she wasn’t having much luck getting keyboard time on our communal desktop. So off to town we went with credit-card in hand, in to Smiths Dicks to browse the dozens of laptops on offer, eventually striking up [...]

One of my colleagues forwarded me a great blog post by Tony Hirst from last year which wrapped up important features and opportunities for use of RSS as a sort of call to arms, or manifesto as Tony refers to it. The post got me thinking about one particular aspect of RSS talk that winds [...]