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Map of Australian Youth Climate Coalition 14 May 2011 | 09:40 am
Here’s a side project that I’m happy can finally be unveiled. The Australian Youth Climate Coalition has been formed to educate, inspire and mobilise young Australians to solve the climate crisis. I...
Incoming is about predicting behavior 14 Feb 2011 | 09:00 am
Originally posted on incoming-media.com, to introduce my next challenge as it emerges from stealth mode. This guy is Kurt Lewin. He’s the daddy of social psychology. In 1936, Lewin tweeted “behavior...
The Next Challenge 10 Dec 2010 | 11:05 pm
Last month I departed Xumii after a fantastic two and a half years. It was my absolute pleasure to lead such a massively talented group of Engineers to build our mobile social networking platform. Wh...
Google Instant on your Maps 11 Oct 2010 | 12:45 am
geo-autocomplete is a jQuery extension I wrote to convert any input field on a web page into an autocomplete field that suggests locations in real-time as you type. It’s like Google Instant for your M...
5 Gadgets For Running 19 Sep 2010 | 11:55 pm
Early this morning I ran my first half-marathon. We started over the Sydney Harbour Bridge, ran around the City, and ended up at the Sydney Opera House. It was a beautiful day and a great experience. ...
In The Beginning… Was The Printing Press 7 Sep 2010 | 01:15 am
An Engineer’s Approach To Storytelling Neal Stephenson is a Storytelling Engineer, uniquely mashing up his left-brain Engineering and his right-brain Artistry into what might be described as swash-bu...
Social Browsing on your iPhone with Safari Browser Extensions 28 Jun 2010 | 02:28 am
Plug-ins, add-ons, extensions – every desktop browser supports them: Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. Third party developers can easily add features to these web browsers to enhan...
GeoMeme adds Google Buzz to detect real-time geo-located trends 23 May 2010 | 10:30 pm
If you’ve been using Google Buzz on a mobile phone recently, you would know that you can choose between two filters to the real-time stream of content: Social – choose ‘Following’ to filter the strea...
Social Recommendations For Every Site On The Web 30 Apr 2010 | 01:56 am
Today Facebook announced that over 50,000 websites have implemented Social Plugins in the first week since their launch. My favorite Social Plugin is ‘Recommendations’ which lists the pages on a site...
How to display approximately geo-located Tweets on a map 17 Apr 2010 | 08:18 pm
Most geo mashups such as GeoMeme display Tweets and other geo-located content as points on a map, based on exact latitude/longitude coordinates. Easy. At the inaugural Chirp Conference this week, Twi...
