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Re: New Logo for Kuala Lumpur Tourism

chopps — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 03:06:03 -0000

those drop shadows though eh?

Re: Brand New: The Build

chopps — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:50:50 -0000

I will never understand why images are faded out on rollover. This annoys me no end. Mousing over an image is like caressing it, I want to see it clearly at that point not a washed out version of it.

Re: http://foodspotting.tumblr.com/post/939010722

chopps — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:48:09 -0000

Looks awesome Alexa. Really a big improvement. One comment, the app store button looks disproportionately huge compared to everything else.
Keep up the good work.

Re: Online Entrepreneur Timeline

chopps — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:58:36 -0000

What do you mean by drop-shipped?

Re: Oh, Joe, the world doesn’t need a Tablet? Really?

chopps — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:33:14 -0000

Here is my prediction.

Whether Apple releases a Tablet PC , what the form factor is etc etc is not the real question.
After all a Tablet PC is just a metaphor for a PC that has minimum local storage and software requirements as compared to the traditional desktop or laptop PC.

Personal computing is moving into an era where the devices will be free and software and data services will be provided as utilities. All you really need now is a device with a display, an internet connection and a browser based OS to access it all.

We saw the beginnings of this shift with the Netbooks of 2009 but the trend will continue further in 2010 with Google releasing Chrome OS and most likely giving away Tablet PC's for free (the same free as your mobile phone hardware is free) plans that allow them to subsidize the cost of these stripped down devices through ad sense advertising.

Apple is working hard to compete in this space and the Tablet PC they release this year may be innovative in some sense. The iTunes online offering may or may not be part of it, however, until they release a stripped down consumer browser based OS and a suite of utility software and data storage services of the likes of Google Docs, Picasa, You Tube, Gmail etc etc they will still be operating in the premium price bracket and catering mostly to computer literate professionals.

I for one am looking forward to my free Google Tablet PC, that allows me to do work, be entertained and share my content with my social network on a larger screen than my mobile phone, without the underlying OS bulk that is mostly used by software developers and other computer professionals.

The introduction of these 'free' tablet PCs will grow the web ecosystem where it matters by enticing a whole new demographic to the daily use of the consumer web. This year will mark the real beginning of the 'PC' as a common household device, as common as the refrigerator or the washing machine.

Apple will be there with it's premium fetish Tablet PC offering, but by know means will they be leading the charge. I imagine they will have trouble keeping up.

Re: SpaceOut - Make Money Out Of Thin Air

chopps — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:47:41 -0000

great idea.

Re: GitHub Rejects The Valley, Calls On Sydney-Based Anchor To Keep Their Business Running

chopps — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:13:09 -0000

Evreything seems to be going well at the moment, minimal downtime for the changeover and good quality service afterward.

Kudos to Anchor and thanks to Technation for letting me know about them and their role in the switchover.

Re: Dominiek - web, technology and startups

chopps — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:19:27 -0000

I am very interested in the transparency topic as well. Regarding the banks, most will give you your transaction history for the last several months and probably longer if you pay for them to retrieve it. There are plenty of software that eat this data and analyze your spending patterns, but for the most part you have to identify the different line items as the data given is not machine readable, or at least using these apps it is not.

As for the the idea of complete or radical transparancy, the more I think about it the more it seems that there will always be multiple levels of transparency for different types of information and for different spaces for each individual. And I think that these choices will always need to reside at the level of the individual.

The thing that will most influence an individual's choice will be when the value to the individual gained from choosing transparency out weighs any losses, be they perceived or real. And I think for most today, having a transparent digital social existence is more common than not. (myspace, twitter, lifestreams etc)

Regarding attention, it is interesting that the most limited or finite resources become the most valuable. Bandwidth and computing power increases exponentially whilst attention capacity stays pretty much the same at the level of the individual.

An interesting read Dominiek, will check out Embracing Post-Privacy next.

Re: Memiary + Lessons of a Weekend Entrepreneur

chopps — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:04:38 -0000

Just started using it now, I suffer from the same short-term memory problem. This forces the active review of the day.
Data integrity will be key here, I will be pretty pissed off if I keep this up and you lose the data! Do you have a strategy for that?

Re: Smart Learning Site iKnow Launches At DEMO

chopps — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:37:16 -0000

Thanks for the props Kim,

Looking forward to seeing how we are received by the International web community.
The initial response has been good so far. We present tomorrow morning at around 830am Aussie time at DEMO in San Diego.

Wish us luck!

Re: summer in tokyo › Simon Dennett

chopps — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:54:48 -0000

nice photo! even if I do say so myself.

Re: Facebook Is Not Really That Special

chopps — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:13:09 -0000

I don't see the Silicon Valley hype around Facebook that you mention, however, I do see that facebook itself is pure hype.
I agree with your argument that they are not the next Google, but who is saying that they are?

Consider..

Every single digital marketing agency in the world and all of their employess are pushing facebook and my space and whatever to all and sundry in the hope to be able to elevate some silly marketing campaign, that they are charging their clients millions for, to the masses.

You'd be hard pushed to find a marketing strategy presentation deck that doesn't include social networks , viral marketing and a facebook / digg marketing strategy.

I think you are missing the point semantically with the use of the word social. Social is not the purpose of these apps, and a paradigm shift in social interaction is not what they promise.

What they do promise is a network of net users collective attentions, which happens to be worth a lot of money.

And by the way the nested replies on your blog are just not doing it for me :)