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Wellington’s (bad?) weather not the main reason for its IT entrepreneurship
The joke is that Wellington’s a good place for IT entrepreneurs because the weather forces developers and the like to stay indoors. More likely given its concentration of internet and computing based...
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Mass customisation and Wellington’s culture — a marriage made in heaven?
The term mass customisation is one that will increasingly become common. (Feel free to say you heard it here first!) An example is a pair of jeans, made, perhaps on the premise, exactly to fit the...
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Agile methodology seems to suit kiwi psyche
A relatively recent ‘movement’ in software development runs the risk of dovetailing perfectly with the kiwi psyche. ‘Agile Methodology’, as used by super graphics creators BIS2, is, as self-defined, a...
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Key’s causing of capital introspection is probably good for us
As much as Prime Minister John Key has attempted to water down his ‘Wellington is dying’ aside, at the very least it has provided a good opportunity for some capital introspection. One thing Key might...
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Primary industry mobile tech forum draws the digerati
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...
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Non-success gets a deserved recognition
A thumbs up to Lightning Lab and Wellington’s Creative HQ for celebrating non-success. That, quite deliberately, is different from describing the five of the nine companies which went through LL’s 12...
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The heart of the matter, and a matter of the heart, is design by intention
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 – a...
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Lightning Lab II grows up – will its offspring make it to adolescence?
Anyone that’s been around young children will appreciate there’s a heck of a difference between a one year old and a two year old. A similar comparison is valid with Lightning Lab II, which last week...
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Open for thinking, open for participation, open for collaboration
The name of the two day Wellington conference on Thursday and Friday 16/17 April says it all. Open Source//Open Society (OS//OS). As a digital immigrant who has, without sometimes knowing why, gone...
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Is Startup Weekend missing a middle-aged trick?
As one of many simultaneous events taking place around the world, the Wellington Startup Weekend took place on April 10 – 12 at Creative HQ. Now one of the purposes of the weekend event is not...
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