by JAK | May 24, 2009 | culture
This morning I was one of several thousand people who crossed the Auckland Harbour Bridge by foot and cycle. There was everyone from babies to grandparents waiting patiently until about 9:45 when 8 break away cyclists crossed from Shelly beach anyway. Very good to...
by JAK | May 23, 2009 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
A few weeks back I noticed a review on Techcrunch about OpenTable. That company IPO’d last week raising $70m to fund their growth. “On OpenTable you can search for immediate openings in a given neighborhood. Most online reservations sites have an hour cut...
by JAK | May 11, 2009 | culture
Most of my work is online and so once a new activity is in train the follow on step is to find ways to speed up the process so that I can scale up my work. Sometimes this is because I can offer a new service if I can reinvent a process in a smart way but more often...
by JAK | May 5, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures, TED
As beings it seems to me that – we are all wired to look for patterns partly to decipher meaning but also because the sheer amount of information we get can be so overwhelming. We are also constantly comparing the “news” to our own reference points...
by JAK | Apr 29, 2009 | big ideas
For the past week or so it has been interesting to note the different media treatments of the developing swine flu story. It now clear that globalisation and easy air travel means there are almost certainly more case of the flu than we know about and in more places....
