Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, November 02, 2008
Yearbook Yourself This site is a blast. If you ever wanted to know how you would have looked through the recent decades of fashion and trends, then you need to Yearbook Yourself. You upload a photo of yourself – one…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, October 05, 2008
Can a giant leech be art? I have been running some marketing workshops in the Adelaide Hills recently and met a colourful and somewhat zany character, Janet Campbell. Janet is working on ways to promote local artists, particularly from the…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, September 21, 2008
Before I start with the websites, I have to give eBay a blast tonight for allowing pompous, over-spun, conceited, corporate speak on their site. eBay is pretty good at saying things like “our fees are going up and it will…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, August 31, 2008
Road Kill Cook Book I was in the Riverland at Berri, South Australia, this past week, running workshops on online marketing, eBay and the various web2.0 technologies applicable to small business, and met Cathy from Emaroo Cottages. They run some…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, August 03, 2008
Gary Sauer-Thompson Here is an Adelaide man who is producing and interesting blog, rich with interesting words and pictures. Gary describes himself as someone for whom “Adelaide is home. Work is often in Canberra. Relaxation is in Victor Harbor.” He…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, July 20, 2008
Adelaide Green Porridge Forum I have found an amusing blog written by a fellow Adelaidean, Colin Campbell. Colin describes himself as a “Transplanted Scot, with an Australian partner, a seven year old would be Computer Game Junky/Cricketer/Yugioh Duellist, nine year…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, July 06, 2008
Stuart’s Hell Michael Giacometti is an Alice Springs man on a mission, drawing close to to finishing his gruelling challenge of dragging a 180kg cart over 1000 sand dunes in Australia’s Simpson Desert, from east to west, unassisted and away…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, June 22, 2008
Evernote We can now have an external brain to keep track of all the tiny bits of information we encounter every day, through a service called Evernote. The service is in Beta at the moment and I am a few…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, June 8, 2008
50 things everybody should know how to do This article is a rich resource of how-to links and videos covering a pretty comprehensive list of basic life skills. Sadly, the only one missing that I think is important is “how…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, May 18, 2008
Free Encyclopaedia Here’s a little trick to get you free access to Encyclopaedia Britannica. The techcrunch article I am linking to explains how Encyclopaedia Britannica is often used as an example of how new technology can hurt traditional business models.…