Popular montage video centered around the history of telecommunications.
Originally from a business presentation posted to YouTube, where it’s been popular.
Set to music from the Propellerheads.

ANALYSIS, Melbourne, Australia — We have to look at technology as something to utilize for a practical outcome.
Australia needs new ICT policies.
Why we don’t have an ICT Export industry!
According to the AIIA, domestic production of ICT is worth between 4 and 5% of GDP.
ICT exports were once around $7.8 billion per annum, in 2000, according to AIIA.
Now, under Howard, these have declined to $5.4 Billion according to Austrade.
There’s no reason we cannot more than double ICT exports in 5-10 years through government policy.
Canada is a country closes to Australia in …

COMMENT, Global – Often that is just too much information. Cell phone users in public often have little discretion.
Cell phones on trains.
Cell phones (or mobiles if you prefer) in restaurants.
Famously, I once heard a man chatting up a woman in a toilet cubicle with the door closed at a cinema. I first thought she was in there with him, then he came out holding a phone.
I wonder what she thought of the loud ‘flush’?
The Market Opportunity for Quiet
Expect a pendulum swing back to quiet and focus.
In the meantime expect a …

COMMENT, Melbourne, Australia — Social networks are the next big thing, depending on where you are located in the physical world, they can be at various stages of adoption.
I asked this to a few people at WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco, and in a case of preaching to the converted, many felt blogs were already ‘established’.
But blogs & social networks have not gone mainstream yet in most markets.
(If one applies a model called the Innovation Diffusion curve, that is.)
PS. If you are reading this and twittering, you are probably not …

COMMENT, Melbourne, Australia — First of all let me say I am not partisan. I vote right, I vote left.
Personally, I think Giuliani, Gore, Clinton and McCain would all make good presidents at different times. Professionally I think Gore, Giuliani and Clinton may all lead to good outcomes for innovation.
The Left/Right divide is increasingly irrelevant, in any case. In a prior analysis from 2thinknowTM I made the case that the real contest is between Engaged and Not Engaged. See: Election innovation: why Left & Right don’t matter.
How Bush happened:
The people …

NEWS AND ANALYSIS, San Francisco, USA – Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of leading blogging platform WordPress, spoke at WordCamp 2007 today, Sunday July 22, 2007.
For the Agenda of the Matt Mullenweg’s presentation: http://2007.wordcamp.org/schedule/state-of-the-word/
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Innovation: Past and Future of WordPress, according to Matt
Mullenweg …

ANALYSIS, San Francisco – WordCamp 2007 commenced today in San Francisco, at the Swedish American Hall on Market St. This is my second post.Presenter in the second session, was experienced journalist and IT veteran John Dvorak. He was joined by writer from the (sadly rumoured to be defunct) Business 2.0, OM Malik.
Dvorak had two interesting points regarding innovation:
“Bloggers present themselves as bloggers”
“Citizen journalism”
Schedule: http://2007.wordcamp.org/schedule/blogs-vs-journalism/
Both these allude to the innovation zeitgeist as 2thinknowTM define it.
The innovation zeitgesit in blogging is the upcoming professionalism and redesign of the presentation of user …

ANALYSIS, San Francisco — From WordCamp 2007. Podcasting will be a new media, and will grow in revenues. By then it may not be called podcasting.
It may be called something new and snappy, and will be in some ways more like TV/radio.
Marketing, including naming (eg. iPod is sexier than media player and is now the generic name) is important to product development and adoption (see Apple…)
Thanks to Dan Kuykendall, of www.mightyseek.com for an excellent and well balanced presentation of the what, why and how of pod-casting; and despite being first …

OPINION, Sydney — Let’s face it, innovation is not something many inside some Australian universities get.
Who gets innovation?
Some Businesses do. Innovation in business is getting it done. Innovation delivers growth, market share or world-class profits for enterprises, not necessarily at the same time.
Government can get innovation. Kennett (Victoria/Melbourne), Giuliani (New York), they got innovation. Some cities are innovation hubs. French cities also come to mind. invariably heavily centralised countries don’t lead to innovation hubs.
It’s the cities that emerge or areas like Vienna, Silicon Valley/The Bay Area, Paris, Boston, New York.
What …

San Francisco is showing innovation leadership beyond technology, it has emerging west coast alternative to US east coast cultural dominance. It also has strong hub ties to Australia and Asia, whereas East Coast has strong hub ties to Europe.
In San Francisco, July 21/22 their will be the Wordpress, Word-Camp. Wordpress will be the next big thing in blogging. All races become two horse races, with a third trailing eventually. Wordpress is well-placed to be horse # 1, 2 or at least 3. I think #1.
Wordpress has innovation leadership in the …

Librarians are having to deal with the vast amount of content that only occurs in web or electronic form. It’s a massive trend. So a term, Library 2.0 and a support network has arisen. One of their communities online is at: library20.ning.com
Organising electronic data: this is a big issue. I predict veteran website snapshots will be a collectors item one day, much like movie merchandise/posters are now.
Social networking innovations: I found this whilst researching on Marc Andreessen’s new venture Ning.com, basically a site that lets you create your own social …

Sir Tim Berners Lee on the next big innovation beyond Web 2.0. That would be the semantic web. Or basically interchangeable data, data from your contact database, talks to data from a website allowing you to file someone you meet online in your contacts. Or an invoice in your accounting system is machine-readable as an invoice on the web.
In other words no more data conversion. This is what XML is all about, but that is one part of it.
If it wasn’t Berners Lee, i’d say perhaps that’s a B I …

Webcentral , Australia’s largest Web hosting company, have been having email outtages and delays to most customers for the last 3 days, according to their support line.
This is the longest sustained email outage I have experienced since 1999.
In Whirlpool, the broadband users forum, there were calls for compensation and/or a class action. (link below)
Personally, we have not been able to receive emails consistently for 3 days, consistently. It is driving us nuts, and worse as it doesn’t effect all accounts or all domains at the same time. I cannot …

This little beauty is a Sony UX. it’s basically a full computer a little larger than an iMate. Around the size and weight of your typical paperback novel.
http://b2b.sony.com/Solutions/subcategory/notebooks/ux-series they are around USD$1500

When is technology an Innovation?
Readers of my other posts, and Technorati & Fast Company and other online mentions would notice I don’t like Geek for Geek’s sake. Think Geek is not ideal. boys with toys…!
Sony have Innovation Here, or close
This machine (if well designed, I have to check one out soon) is an innovation if it enables a strategic …