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Thoughts on an open messaging platform

Posted by: Paul on: May 8, 2009

Twitter in the microblogging world now has the pull of Google in the search world – if you’re not ‘on Twitter’ you’re nowhere inn terms of being able to connect, share and promote via microblogging (surmising that Twitter now gets 80 – 90% of microblogging traffic / use.)
This effectively locks the market into one monopoly [...]

on motivation

Posted by: Paul on: April 2, 2008

Sometimes when I’m tired, or in the middle of a project I don’t enjoy I get a bit down. Today has been like 5 of those small ‘down’ times combined. I can’t get into my work, I’m finding it hard to feel positive (unusual for me) and I’m feeling pretty unfulfilled with my professional life [...]

why do we need offline apps?

Posted by: Paul on: March 12, 2008

ReadWriteWeb wrote up a while ago about Firefox 3 adding offline support for web applications. Arouind the same time, the Google Gears announcement came out and kind of fizzled. (Anyone using Google Gears? Anyone?)
I put this aside but recently discovered that companies are investing time and money into creating offline version of online web apps [...]

I must admit I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the way we communicate via the web. Facebook (and Bebo) were exciting due to the ability to find old friends and reconnect, as well as seeing what everyone else was up to.
The excitement soon faded when I realised the shallowness of the communication [...]

education, learning, and your children

Posted by: Paul on: February 20, 2008

A recent New Zealand education study showed that the likelihood of educational achievement was a 60/30 split between the home and the school. (I’m not going to ask where the other 10% comes from). This means instead of moaning about your kids school you’d better make sure you have a good attitude towards education and [...]