Hmmm: Grant to strengthen consumer voice in telecommunications The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today announced funding to assist in the establishment of a new telecommunications consumer peak body. “The Government wants to give consumers a more powerful and effective voice in the development of telecommunications policy,” Senator Conroy…
From Isco 72 on Flickr: Isole Maldive, Atollo di Ari, Bathala Hell Yeah: Dreaming of Beach Holidays Posted: 10 Jun 2008 12:22 AM CDT With the winter weather upon us, it seems Australians are looking to escape the cold with a Queensland holiday rather than making the most of the snow fields, with searches for…
Create a Profile. Fill out your Identity. Undertake activities and discussions to gain a Reputation (good or bad). Leads to Trust. Once you have Trust you can take on Leader or other Roles in a social network. No request to fill out a profile or create an identity? Then how do you propose to do…
There are now three peer to peer or social lending banks in Australia, as far as I can determine. Well Fosik hasn’t launched yet… but it’s the latest one I have found:Here is a chart:Sorry it’s unreadable, it’s the same on their site… 🙁 So instead of asking your bank manager for a loan, ask…
Near and dear to my heart… | View | Upload your own The banks should be trembling. Nice preso, Sparkbuoy in New Zealand! My previous posts: Citizen Bankers and Peace Prizes (2006), Social Lending Peer to Peer Banking in Australia (2007) Australia, Social lending in social networks (2007), Social network economy or the new digital…
Not my usual well thought out – *frowns at you* – post , just some jottings on the consumer economy. BANKING 2.0 – social network personal banking and peer to peer loans will take off in a big way. Perhaps not the way Virgin Money/CircleLending, or Zopa or Prosper see it, but it will happen….
w00t we make a difference! Mark Pesce started it, me and a handful of others have been blogging about it. Ajay and Myles even established a mashup ICanHazMeraki.Net (why isn’t it embeddable? Grrr ajay!) Anyway, Sydney Morning Herald has caught on: A group of socially networked geeks hopes to bring free wi-fi to the masses,…
Priscilla Brice Weller is a leading Web 2.0 evangelist in the Not For Profit Sector in Australia. I even copy her haircut. You don’t need to know that though. Leadership 2008 will be a very interesting year. I have been awarded a place on the Sydney Leadership program and am quite excited, dumbfounded and nervous…
Superduper stuff. Me ‘n Ajay ‘n the usual suspects err hosts of EEL chatting about the future of bio-informatics and GPS/Location Based Services, and the impact of virtual currency on economies. Futuristic stuff that is starting to happen today. In this first show for 2008 Laurel Papworth is handed the reigns to drive the show…
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