by JAK | Dec 17, 2011 | big ideas, culture
Since the global financial crisis (GFC) started in 2008 (or was it ’07) it has become more obvious that business as usual is one of the first casualties. Some of us have been working on more sustainable business ideas as it has been clear for a long time that...
by JAK | Nov 21, 2011 | culture, TEDx
Here is what all the 10 year olds will be doing next. Thomas makes some other good points during his presentation – like most of the kids know way more about the technology than their teachers which is a real challenge for educators. ‘Thomas Suarez is a...
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...
by JAK | Feb 13, 2011 | culture, industry futures
One of the nicer things about getting older is being able to take a longer term perspective on the future. More specifically; how our lives and those of our friends turn out based on decisions and actions in time past. It is a truism that we often don’t know or...
by JAK | Feb 2, 2011 | culture
Got some sad new today. An young friend has passed away. He had been sick for a long time and it wasn’t unexpected but still a shock when it happens. I had been looking at this video of Bruce Feiler who had a cancer and wanted to pass on some fatherly advice...
by JAK | Jan 27, 2011 | culture
Both National and Labour are obviously thinking about the next election as battle lines are being drawn up. On one hand National is signalling a sell-down of profitable SOE’s to ostensibly to reduce debt. Labour has flagged the idea of no tax on the first $5k...
