Guy Kawasaki with Steve Ballmer? - Mix08
What is former Apple Evangelist, Venture Capitalist and “Democratizer of information” Guy Kawasaki doing at Mix? Armed with a MacBook Air, he’s talking to Steve Ballmer , Microsoft CEO, about Yahoo...
Robin Capper
A Kiwi, but not a flightless bird or brown fuzzy skin green centred fruit. Humanist, Skeptic, Cyclist, Car Enthusiast, Westie Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand | he/him
Fiat embrace the new media - Geneva 2008
Fiat have gone a bit web 2.0 crazy for the Geneva motorshow including a Blog, Flickr YouTube. Among the car shots, and motorshow eye candy, you can see the design model and cad drawings for their “Gia...
CAD and BIM General
Design productivity secrets from "Google User Experience", and a flaw in their UX?
“UX is an acronym for "user experience." but many of the principles discussed apply to all design projects. ChangeOrder: Secrets of UX Design Productivity from Google Last Thursday, I attended a...
Automobile
Disappointing, not worthy of the badge - 2009 Volkswagen Scirocco
Looking at the new VW Scirocco, it’s a disappointing to the point where I don’t think it deserves the Scirocco monicker. Giugiaro’s original took the boxy Golf into the realm of sporty, but crucially...
How to launch software in New Zealand? Drive to Bluff?
New Zealand's small population and geographic spread presents a problem for launching products, even software. This has resulted in some varied approaches. A couple of years ago Salesoft team toure...
Automobile
Alfa Romeo Mito, no it's Mi.To, why not Alfasud?
It’s the Mito, supposedly from Milano + Torino, but I reckon this little Alfa should have revived the Alfasud name. It’s not from the South but it’s the name I associate with little Alfa hatches and s...
Comedy
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Oh Canada - Singing the praises of New Zealand
If you believe some Kiwis, and Kiwi Politicians, there is little to like about New Zealand. Thankfully it aint true and it’s refreshing to hear someone say it, all the way from Canada! Singing th...
CAD and BIM General
The Physics of the "I" in BIM
What is a Building Information Model? My interpretation is simply an information model of a building. It’s not a technology, it’s not a way of working, it’s the expression of a building as data. To th...
ActiveWords
Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope, breathtaking!
This is what made Robert Scoble cry and Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of ActiveWords , called "the best thing he’s seen in years from Microsoft" a couple of weeks ago. Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong introduce the Worldwide Telescope at TED: http://static.videoegg.
Ed Bott on XP versus Vista, is it a 2000/XP replay?
I haven’t got a great deal of experience with Vista, one machine with Vista Business, but so far it’s been ok. I like the looks but find it’s constant “ Do you want to do this..” nagging a little tedi...
Automobile
Maybach redefine pointless
Maybach, verging on irrelevant anyway, produce the useless Landaulet. Remarkably, it manages to be even uglier than a normal Maybach. Who asked for it? Car try to work that out. Maybach's £67...