I think I was on my first long haul airplane flight 30 years or so ago when the idea struck me. Back then jumbo jets took 30 hours to fly to Australia from the UK with 5 stop overs. At your seat you could flick the channel of the entertainment system’s handset to hear comedy, the latest pop hits,...Read More

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc&w=601&h=338] For those of you frustrated by terrible use of English, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s latest parody ‘Word Crimes‘ is  a delight. Set to the music of last year’s infectious hit ‘Blurred Lines‘, he rips into the abbreviated, sloppy expression too often spouted on social media, emails or texts. Released 4 days ago, it’s already had 7 million views on...Read More

I am becoming more and more impressed with the new look Klout, a free service some may have dabbled with a few years ago, then put aside as a meaningless ‘online influence rating‘ score, and not much more. Well the guys and gals at Klout have been working away to improve things and add value (do...Read More

This slide deck is from a 20-minute talk I gave to the Founders Institute launch this week. I told a few hard knock stories about my own start-up experiences and from other startups I advise and mentor from time to time. [slideshare id=30334202&sc=no] The main takeaways are: ideas are fine, but its’ the execution of the...Read More

[slideshare id=28001741&doc=shifttomobile-131107071556-phpapp01] A few weeks ago I presented at the inaugural BigTech13 conference in Perth; topic was ‘mobile and its effects on business’. I spoke about the shift from print to online, and then within that shift is the shift to mobile (and within that will next be the shift to wearables). The thing about...Read More

Last Wednesday I spoke at Morning Start-Up, at Spacecubed down in the city. 27 minutes to tell a 10-year story, from the heights of the first dotcom boom through the tech wreck and the long, slow climb up the hill to the final trade sale in mid 2010. There is also an ‘after sale’ story,...Read More

In 2007, the ‘smartphone’ (or ‘app phone’) was born. The iPhone was not the first phone to have emails or internet connection, but it was the one that popularised the new category. Three years later, Apple gave us the iPad. Again, Apple were not the first to develop tablet computers. Microsoft had launched tablets back...Read More

Leading WA ebusinesses may have been around awhile, but this disguises how the nature of the sector has radically changed Mark Pownall’s piece “Renewal Challenge for local online leaders” (15th July 2013) was in response to Business News’ first list of WA online businesses. Mark noted that most of the businesses were over ten years old...Read More

[slideshare id=24239528&doc=uwa-ebusiness-18jul13-130715040309-phpapp01] My latest slide pack on online marketing – for an MBA audience this coming Thursday; what works online? what does not? what’s my experience been over 14 years of doing aussiehome.com, reiwa.com and now businessnews.com.au? Enjoy 🙂Read More

I attended my first GeoRabble the other day, a kind of BarCamp for GIS geeks (mapping technology folk). I’ve always loved maps, from my early days at school poring over the intricate Ordnance Survey maps (“what’s the distance from the post office to the school house Gunningham?”). Set upstairs at the Leederville Hotel, attendees get...Read More