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Since the beginning of  Facebook, the general goal has been for users of the service to “connect” with each other via the facebook website.
After facebook really boomed in Australia by about 2007-2008, it was already pretty popular elsewhere, and since the growth of facebook was so enourmous they have been able to continue to build, [...]

One of the highlights of Web Directions this year (which I have been too busy to blog about) was that all attendees were issued something that’s scarce among web folk, and that’s a Google Wave invite.
Google Wave is only in BETA / Preview at the moment, and only open to a very select few. After [...]

Did you know the Government is proposing an internet censorship scheme that goes further than any other democracy in the world? That’s why I’m one of over 100,000 Australians who have signed the petition to Save the Net. Will you join me?
This Friday, our petition will grace the pages of newspapers across the nation. That [...]

I have been fortunate enough to be invited down to the Brisbane PayPal developer day in Brisbane. As a website developer and designer, I am really looking forward to this.
PayPal continues to impress me with their innovation, making online payments and transactions easier for smaller businesses to deploy.
I’m looking forward to learning more tricks and [...]

It seems what we do on the computer is slowly becoming everyones business as the train that was our right to privacy slowly drifts off into the sunset.
Regardless of what you think the Labor government is doing with economics or anything else, they are quickly developing a bad reputation for dealing with modern communications, things [...]