This week is the beginning of university life for thousands of recent high school graduates. There is lots of fun to be had, lots of learning, and time to build the vision of where you want to be in the next few years. I have been asked what I would recommend doing – I don’t [...]

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Senator Conroy has just announced that the Labor government is green-lighting a plan to censor all Australian internet traffic with a mandatory ISP-level internet filter. Kevin Rudd’s election promise was that the filter wouldn’t be mandatory, and this backflip has dramatic consequences.

How many complaints does a government need before listening to the people they represent? [...]

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Pete Williams and I hosted the first Melbourne Google Wave Meetup last week at the Deloitte Digital offices, with help from Merric Reese and David Warwick. It was great to get 80 people in a room to share stories of what everyone has been using Wave for and also what will be possible in the future. Doctor Wave joined us and [...]

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Search don’t sort: Forget filing, and embrace searching
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It is a huge paradigm shift but one of the key changes that is happening all over the web right now. Search technology has improved rapidly over the past few years. In 2000 we could search the whole internet faster than our own computer, with Google. [...]

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Calendar, Contacts and Mail form a key part of your personal infrastructure. Google Apps provides the simplest implementation of this and they recently announced that they have enabled full push support – meaning that any changes you make anywhere are reflected everywhere else in realtime.

What does this mean? If you make a calendar entry on [...]

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