Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Congrats to Sue Tyler and the Ponoko team, and all the others who were interviewed by Peter Griffin for the Idealog issue focusing on craft. The article (which will be online in a few weeks) has photos of various Ponoko-made goods, including a necklace of sheep which looked awfully ...
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
There's a lot of talk about this Fortune article around Microsoft, Linux, and the 235 patents that Microsoft claim Linux infringes upon. Here's my redux: Microsoft is extorting patent payments from users of open source software, beginning with the customers who also use Microsoft software. Microsoft has ...
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
I just got back from a week in the US for Foo Camp, where I had a great time shopping two ideas around: New Zealand can be a hub of innovation, and Kids aren't being turned onto science and technology as careers Re: the ...
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
NZ Herald reports the government wants at least 47,000 skilled immigrants and will recognize skills in applicants from India and China for the first time. I love that the desired professions include "IT professionals, plumbers, and engineers."
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Six months back in the country, I've formed some opinions about where NZ is lacking. I was interested to see how the budget would address what I've identified as the country's shortcomings. Now the budget's out, I give them 1/2 marks. I only had two priorities. ...
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
Today I went to Auckland to meet Russell Brown of Public Address, to my
uncle's work, then finally to meet with some VCs. Russell first.
He's an interesting guy, very articulate (as befits a good on-air
personality!) and full of background for all the things that are
puzzling me about New Zealand: ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
I think I'm probably doing it a favour calling it a conference: Convergence
Oceania was a Wireless Forum sell shop, an expo hall with a room
featuring the biggest exhibitors. Everyone's Powerpoint deck was
focused to their own product story. Good thing it was free :-)
The expo hall was interesting, ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Great
guest rant on Public Address by a CRI (formerly DSIR, government
scientific research org) talking about insanity of current contestable
funding mechanisms. "A staggering amount of a scientist's time is now
spent writing funding proposals rather than doing science. The red
tape is almost unimaginable. On some occasions it has been necessary
for our ...
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Sunday, July 3rd, 2005
Kea New Zealand is "global community of people who help each other achieve great things all over the world because of the connection they share with New Zealand." Virtual Rotary Club :-)
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
Fascinating report on the jobs that migrants with higher degrees or university degrees do when they get to NZ. Biggest category is computer professionals. Windows doesn't just reboot itself, people! (well, I guess sometimes it does ...)
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