Recent Posts- Social Browsing on your iPhone with Safari Browser Extensions June 27, 2010Plug-ins, add-ons, extensions – every desktop browser supports them: Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. Third party developers can easily add features to these web browsers to enhance our web browsing pleasure. But what about the mobile browser on … Continue reading → […]
- GeoMeme adds Google Buzz to detect real-time geo-located trends May 23, 2010If you’ve been using Google Buzz on a mobile phone recently, you would know that you can choose between two filters to the real-time stream of content: Social – choose ‘Following’ to filter the stream based on your social graph, … Continue reading → […]
- Social Recommendations For Every Site On The Web April 29, 2010Today Facebook announced that over 50,000 websites have implemented Social Plugins in the first week since their launch. My favorite Social Plugin is ‘Recommendations’ which lists the pages on a site which have enjoyed the most Sharing activity by Facebook … Continue reading → […]
- How to display approximately geo-located Tweets on a map April 17, 2010Most geo mashups such as GeoMeme display Tweets and other geo-located content as points on a map, based on exact latitude/longitude coordinates. Easy. At the inaugural Chirp Conference this week, Twitter released its Places feature which instead allows Tweets to … Continue reading → […]
- GeoMeme Wins MySpace Developer Challenge March 14, 2010How exciting! My pet project GeoMeme has been awarded ‘Most innovative use of the Real-Time Stream API’ in the MySpace Developer Challenge. The awards were judged by Mike Jones, MySpace’s new Co-President, and Ron Conway, renowned angel investor, and David … Continue reading → […]
- GeoMeme adds MySpace real-time local trends March 3, 2010In other news, GeoMeme now measures real-time local trends based on both MySpace and Twitter content. GeoMeme uses the new Real-Time Stream API from MySpace to tap into the flood of geo-located updates being posted by MySpace users all around … Continue reading → […]
- Mobile awesomeness, innovation and disruption March 3, 2010The good people at MitchelLake recently asked me to write an article about mobile technology. So I created a list of awesomeness, innovation and disruption, including topics such as ‘Mobile is big’, ‘Phones are getting better’, and ‘People pay for … Continue reading → […]
- Murdoch should worry less about the Googlebot and more about social media November 13, 2009I remember in January 2000, old media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was not going to waste his money buying any ‘dotcom’ upstarts. The very next day, AOL bought Time Warner. Not the other way around! Murdoch had apparently failed … Continue reading → […]
- OpenAustralia Hackfest: ‘Mobile + Geo + Social’ slides November 11, 2009I popped into the OpenAustralia Hackfest at the weekend to learn and talk about some of the latest developments in the Gov2.0 revolution. There are now some quite interesting public datasets available, and the developer community is hard at work … Continue reading → […]
- Location-aware mobile web apps using Google Maps v3 + geolocation November 10, 2009When hiring Engineers, I always look for evidence of pet projects, so recently I thought it was fair to create one of my own: GeoMeme, the fun way to measure and share real-time local twitter trends. Visitors to GeoMeme choose … Continue reading → […]
- Social Browsing on your iPhone with Safari Browser Extensions June 27, 2010
rel=me
Tag Archives: life
Thanks to everyone who sponsored my Mo
Movember was a big success this year, raising awareness and $20 million for men’s health issues including prostate cancer. Thanks to everyone who sponsored my Mo, and to anyone who smiled knowingly or looked aghast or otherwise encouraged me along … Continue reading
Movember: sponsor my mo and help us untaboo prostate cancer
Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men’s health issues. Please sponsor my mo and check back here for updates and photos! If … Continue reading
Nangqian Tibetan Foundation
Nangqian Tibetan Foundation is a charitable organisation that I’ve been involved in for a while, aiming to improve upon the poor health and illiteracy of Tibetans living in a remote, mountainous region on the Tibetan Plateau. *Update*: some new pictures … Continue reading
Tagged life
View Comments
On the cusp
Today I’m on the career cusp. After two fantastic years of looking after digital innovation at Lonely Planet, the time has come to move on to a new exciting challenge. Here begins my uiActive journey. Stay tuned…
LinkedIn