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 | Dec 1, 2008 | big ideas, culture, WordPress
This past weekend I was very pleased to be at the first second* Wordcamp in Australia. There were about 60 people present over a 2 day period to share WordPress related ideas and project experiences in the local area. Among other delights, I was very pleased to hear...
by JAK | Nov 19, 2008 | culture
Ahh.. its that time of the year when everyone is hanging out for a Christmas break. Summer in the Southern hemisphere is a grand time and even with the “not so positive” news about an extra ray of sunshine goes a long way. After the elections in NZ it is...
by JAK | Nov 9, 2008 | culture
These results may change slightly but here are the almost definitive results in percentage terms and equivalent seats. The official table for this is over here and the seats should stay the same but may be small changes in the total numbers over the next day or so....
