Tagged: cloud computing

The heart of the matter, and a matter of the heart, is design by intention - Stick

Peter Kerr • Oct 01, 2013 •

• cloud computing,
• contract writer,
• entrepreneur,
• innovation,
• IT,
• Sciblogs,
• user experience,
• UX Design Day,
• Wellington,
• writer for hire

Seeing as on the design side of things I’m more in the ‘I know when it works, I just don’t know how to do it properly’ camp…here’s a plug to the UX Design Day. UX stands for User Experience – … Continue reading → … Read More

Showcase site demonstrates how others can digitally engage with members - Stick

Peter Kerr • Sep 10, 2013 •

• cloud computing,
• contract writer,
• entrepreneur,
• Honk Marketing,
• IT,
• Jamie Houston,
• Love My Ukulele,
• Sciblogs,
• writer for hire

Jamie Houston of Honk Marketing has been using his own (sideline, but now about to turn profitable) business as a showcase of how others can use the web to improve customer interaction. This blog gives a few of the lessons … Continue reading → … Read More

Building an integrated interweb presence – easily - Stick

Peter Kerr • Sep 03, 2013 •

• cloud computing,
• contract writer,
• entrepreneur,
• innovation,
• IT,
• Jamie Houston,
• Love My Ukulele,
• Sciblogs,
• writer for hire

For many people (including especially myself), figuring out how to integrate all things interwebby in order to build a business is, at the very least, daunting. Think cleverly using Facebook and other social media, building a database, selectively interacting with … Continue reading → … Read More

Appiness is good service – Icestack launches its moonshot to America - Stick

Peter Kerr • Aug 27, 2013 •

• Andrew McPherson,
• cloud computing,
• contract writer,
• development,
• entrepreneur,
• Experieco,
• high tech,
• Icestack,
• innovation,
• Mobile Tech Summit,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• writer for hire

Given that his presentation was to the MobileTech Summit 2013, a primary industry focused event, Andrew McPherson’s app analogy was very apt. A tractor can be likened to a mobile device, the tool that is driven off the Power Take … Continue reading → … Read More

Primary industry mobile tech forum draws the digerati - Stick

Peter Kerr • Aug 20, 2013 •

• cloud computing,
• contract writer,
• development,
• digerati,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• IT,
• Market validation,
• Mobile Tech Summit,
• Processed food,
• Prototyping,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• Sustainability,
• Wellington,
• writer for hire

Numbers tell a story on their own. And the fact that over 220 attendees ponyed up at the Mobile Tech Summit 2013 in Wellington on August 7 & 8 underscores the message that our natural resources aren’t as old-hat as … Continue reading → … Read More

Lightning Lab startups ask – ‘where’s the money’? - Stick

Peter Kerr • May 21, 2013 •

• Angel investment,
• cloud computing,
• demo day,
• development,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• IT,
• Lightning Labs,
• Market validation,
• proprietary,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• Tui Te Hau

Lightning Lab 2013 saw nine startups pitch their digital products to would-be investors last week, seeking expansion capital for ideas that 12 weeks before mostly existed on paper. The Wellington Demo Day saw highly polished presentations, with clear development plans … Continue reading → … Read More

Personalised time/place knowledge goal of ThunderMaps - Stick

Peter Kerr • Nov 16, 2012 •

• Clint Van Marrewijk,
• cloud computing,
• development,
• entrepreneur,
• geospatial,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• IT,
• location-based intelligence,
• Sciblogs,
• ThunderMaps

Location-based intelligence is one of the up-and-coming applications of all things mobile. Wellington-based startup ThunderMaps reckons it has a solution to a problem – individuals and organisations having geo-knowledge that is valuable to others, but having no practical way of … Continue reading → … Read More

TIN100 again proves it is the meat of an innovation club sandwich - Stick

Peter Kerr • Nov 01, 2012 •

• cloud computing,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• IT,
• Sciblogs,
• Sustainability

One way to consider the value of the TIN100 report is to consider what things would be like if it didn’t exist. The almost 200 colour page report on the NZ-owned top 100 (well 200 if you count the additional … Continue reading → … Read More

An angel lines up in books’ corner - Stick

Peter Kerr • Sep 13, 2012 •

• Angel investment,
• authors,
• books,
• cloud computing,
• development,
• entrepreneur,
• innovation,
• Lisa Buchan,
• Literary Angels,
• Mike Peters,
• publishers,
• Sciblogs,
• Sustainability,
• Vangelizer

Here are two aspects of books – an industry ripe for a social media makeover. Firstly, chances are, if you’ve had a good read lately, you’ve told someone else about it. Secondly, with the sometimes predicted death of printed books … Continue reading → … Read More

Gunning for better play; Makerspace takes aim at crowdfunding - Stick

Peter Kerr • Aug 28, 2012 •

• cloud computing,
• education,
• innovation,
• Lee Bennett,
• Market validation,
• open source,
• Prototyping,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• Sustainability,
• Wellington Makerspace

The Wellington Makerspace [TWMS] wants to build a better gun, well that’s not strictly true. The community actually play a lot of what are commonly known as first person shooters [FPS], such as Medal of Honor, Battlefield, Team Fortress and … Continue reading → … Read More