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Who's going to lead the IT revolution in the Illawarra?

The Illawarra Mercury ran an article on the weekend entitled "IT tipped to boom in Illawarra", the basic premise being that as manufacturing winds down, Information Technology and Communications are tagged to grow and fill the gap.

Excellent, I personally think that Wollongong and the Illawarra makes a perfect spot to setup an IT shop if you want to be close to sydney without the costs of being based in Sydney.

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An open letter to the "Creatives"

To whom it may concern,

I have money. It is good money, in fact, being australian money, it is both pretty and hard wearing money. I would like to give you that money in exchange for the music you sell, the films and video productions you make and the books you write.

But I can't.

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Logitech CEO Slams GoogleTV - Or does he?

Hrmm, interesting.

The media has been all over the Logitech "slamming GoogleTV" angle from the recent phone conference. However if you read the actual Call Transcript:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/306966-logitech-ceo-hosts-analyst-amp-investor-day-conference-call-transcript

You'll find that what the Logitech CEO was railing against was the Logitech implementation and the content blocking by the Cable and FTA channels in the US.

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GooglePlus - Not A Facebook Thing

Google Plus is dead! cries Farhad Manjoo in Slate. It's chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone and thus GooglePlus is effectively a dead man walking, destined to join Googles other social projects such as Buzz or Wave (which wasn't a social project but the media do like to pretend that it was).

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ABC on Android

I use both Android and iDevices, my phone is a Nexus S running the latest Gingerbread (2.3.6) and I own an iPod Touch and a first generation iPad. I'm also an avid consumer of the ABC online services, mostly streaming ABC News 24 in the kitchen and accessing the ABCs large library of video and audio podcasts.

However generally I don't use my android devices to do this, why? Because the ABC has concentrated all its mobile efforts into building iDevice compatible apps. I've added screen caps from both the Android and iDevice apps below:

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Angry Beanie Broadcasting Studio Mark 1

Angry Beanie (for those of you who may not be aware) is my entry into the online media world, specifically audio and video based online media. Here is where I indulge my interest in things media productiony through efforts such as the fortnightly podcast "Purser Explores The World".

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A bit of an update

I haven't blogged for a little while so I thought I would do a quick catchup.

First up I'm in the process of starting up a new media project. This one's not going to be as focused as Open Source On The Air, instead it's going to be something that allows me to meet interesting people and ask them questions about a wide range of different subjects. I'm currently gathering material for the first episode (which is going to have a focus on the Australian Space community).

This is not the tech news

I've blogged about the main stream media confusing life with tech news before but todays Sydney Morning Herald Tech section front page needs another poke.

Let's have a look at the editors picks (click on the image below for a clearer copy):

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Angry Birds in Chrome all HTML 5 all the time! Except not

So one of the big announcements at this years Google IO was the release of Angry Birds for Chrome. For those of you not in the know, Angry Birds is a game that started out on the iPhone and has come to represent the sort of simple, yet addictive game that has been so successful on mobile devices. Using a catapult you launch a series of birds with different talents at constructions filled with green pigs who have stolen the birds eggs.

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Samsung Internet TV SDK == Fail

So, in my ongoing desire for playing with shiny convergance toys I thought I would have a look at the the Samsung Internet TV SDK.

Bleh.

The first thing that annoyed was the Windows only requirement. But sucking it up and switching to my windows partition I tried to install it.

Bleh. Required a full reboot of the system to finish intalling it. It's 2011 people, not even Microsoft makes you do that anymore. Hell the only people who make you reboot after a software installation anymore seems to be Apple.

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