Art for Love
When art and science collide More …
All the fun of the fair
There will be only one place to be in the first weekend of May this year: the Auckland Art Fair. Here’s why More …
Mind your Facebook manners
It's up to you to have responsible relationships More …
Art for a dollar
Scott Campbell's laser-cut etchings of stacks of dollar bills. More …
David Karp
1Fresh from a 20 hour flight all the way from The Big Apple, David Karp came to Auckland to give us his take on community building... More …
Fake it till you make it: rapid prototyping using Flash—Phillip Fierlinger
The biggest fake of the weekend - Phillip "new Kiwi" Fierlinger - shared his knowledge in prototyping web experiences - we all got to share his passion for fake... More …
Designing Virtual Realism—Dan Rubin
1Virtual reality - an oxymoron? Not so according to the presenter who, by popular acclaim, was the most stylish at Web09, Dan Rubin More …
Making the designer–developer relationship work - Rubin/Smith
3Too often there is an artificial divide between developers and designers. The fact is both parties have the same target—a good end result for the users. More …
Cloud Opportunities—Rod Drury
1Building globally competitive businesses from New Zealand is no longer really about the technology, said Rod Drury as he opened Web09 this morning. It’s about building a business: marketing, fundraising and general management. More …
When robots need a hand
Kacie Kinzer created the world’s cutest robots, then abandoned them in New York with instructions to get to a certain point.
More …Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a ...
Anatomy of AmazonFAIL
It’s fascinating to watch Amazon upset so many customers since removing hundreds of gay-themed books from its sales listings. There's been a quick grassroots reaction, including turning Amazon's store into a protest tool by tagging affected books ... More …
Web09 here we come …
In which our intrepid man on the street braves cramped airline seats, too early starts to the day and Auckland traffic to bring us all up-to-the-second coverage of the Web09 event. More …
Trade Shows - A PR Manual
1Our still-tired, and still grumpy, man-on-the-scene in San Francisco has a brickbat, and a bouquest, for trade-show exhibitors More …
Can design save …
For obvious reasons, I really like this TED presentation by Jacek Utko, explaining how he used design to lift newspaper circulation by up to 100%. What Rupert Murdoch would give for a bit of that magic ... of course, it's ... More …
Tim O’Reilly—making a difference with Web 2.0
Tim O’Reilly is the elder statesman of the web—it was he who came up with the moniker "Web 2.0" a few years ago. Despite being sick, and despite becoming a grandfather only a few hours before, he ... More …
