by JAK | Sep 1, 2011 | big ideas, industry futures, online marketing
Here is a glimpse into the future of online shopping from Korea. What is exciting and significant here is that customers using mobile phones are able to use QR codes to short cut straight to a shopping cart by scanning those codes directly off a poster. We have seen...
by JAK | Jul 10, 2011 | big ideas, development, industry futures
In 2011 we are all born global and to do well in the competition for capital and other resources we need to develop better measurement frameworks for promoting New Zealand as a centre for innovation to the rest of the world. Its election year in New Zealand and one...
by JAK | Mar 10, 2011 | big ideas, TED
Last week was the annual TED conference 2011 in Monterey. Would have loved to be there but lucky for us David Cowan was and he wrote up his TED Talks 2011 guide over here – David said “The 2011 speaker lineup lived up to prior years. You can never tell...
by JAK | Mar 7, 2011 | WordPress
In February I was fortunate enough to be part of a dual event held in Wellington, NZ and a week later in Melbourne. As one of the NZ organisers we curated a number of talks on what WordPress users are doing here; as well as how they do some of that. All of the talks...
by JAK | Feb 27, 2011 | culture
As a music fan, I love it when I get to work with musicians on their websites. I like it even better when I find a service that really helps musicians in practical ways. Bandcamp is that service. The music industry business model which was really a distribution...
