October 31st, 2008

The Official Shifted Friday’s Weekly Link RoundUp – #1

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Welcome to the 1st Official Shifted Friday’s Weekly RoundUp!

A list of interestingness, news and opinions this week covering business, web, tech, culture, politics, startups & marketing.

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Have a great weekend!

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The tech-savvy are the new top of the social order (Reuters)
http://nickholmesacourt.blogspot.com/2008/10/tech-savvy-are-new-top-of-social-order.html

Photos of Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe (What a real crisis is like)
http://humorland.wordmess.net/20081025/what-the-real-crisis-is-like/

Accept Credit Card Payments with your iPhone!
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/10/30/accept-credit-card-payments-from-your-iphone

Australia’s Top Web 2.0 Entrepreneurs
http://www.smartcompany.com.au/Premium-Articles/Top-Story/20081027-Australias-top-web-20-entrepreneurs.html

How to lose a deal successfully
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/sethsmainblog/~3/435713838/how-to-lose.html

The “Sky Is Falling” for many traditional media companies
http://www.prweekus.com/Sky-falling-for-employees-at-many-media-brands/article/120118/

Brain peaks at 39 years of age and declines thereafter
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/physical-decline-caused-by-slow-64365.aspx

Senator “series of tubes” Stevens convicted on 7 felony counts
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14819.html

How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/10/our-team-is-tot.html

Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slides of Doom
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/10/sequoia-capitals-56-slide-powerpoint-presentation-of-doom/

Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally)
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_office_comes_to_browser.php

10 Fastest Growing Social Media Sties in September 2008
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10073531-2.html

Aussie Google Phone to launch for $199 before Xmas
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/aussie-google-phone-launch-by-christmas/2008/10/30/1224956203521.html

BigPond, iiNet and Internode MDs all say Australian CleanFeed ISP-level filtering will not work (Video)
http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/communications/soa/ISP-level-content-filtering-won-t-work/0,139023754,339292158,00.htm

10 best Social Media tools for PR and Journalists
http://mashable.com/2008/10/30/best-social-media-tools-for-pr-professionals-and-journalists/

Is underdog LinkedIn poised to beat flashy Facebook
http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2008/10/27/27idg-Is-underdog-Lin.html

Your Gmail Account is now an OpenID
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/29/your-gmail-account-is-now-an-openid/

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October 31st, 2008

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Have you ever thought of being a model? I am sure a few of you out there have, because Shifted Pixels has just partnered with MyPhatBreak to inform the world about this great new website to give anyone the chance to be model scouted.

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October 30th, 2008

Sydney Social Media / Twitter Party (October 29th 2008 @The Beresford Surry Hills)

Last night at the beresford, a swanky new hotel in Surry Hills, a group of Sydney and Melbourne Bloggers, Social Media Types and Twitterers met. Attendees included:

@juliancole @jjprojects @rosshill (melbourne) @stevehopkins (melbourne) @pixel8ted @nickhac @mattvaughan @stewface @davidsoul @JoshAnstey
@eskimo_sparky @gregdwyer @ben_phillips @timlonghurst @Ifarmer @DavidVanderberg
@brento @lozzz @armyofdolls @neilphillips @servantofchaos @misswired
@Scott_Drummond @mishy101 @liako @katiechatfield @noodles83  @wheelyweb

If i have missed you please accept my apoligies and email/comment to let me know so i can update the list.

An interesting thought on the night is that there was no centralised organisation for the event, you could have removed anyone and the night would have continued to happen – it was a Mob! Open source event management :)

Some of the most interesting quotes that came out from the evening were:

“Twitter is full of the people that CEO’s go to for advice.”


“Only dead fish go with the flow.”

Here are few photos from the evening:


@ArmyOfDolls @Mishy101 @wheelyweb

@NeilPhillips


@Ben_Phillips @JulianCole


@Eskimo_Sparky @GregDwyer (The Happener Lads)


@Eskimo_Sparky @Ifarmer


@JoshAnstey @DavidSoul


@MattVaughan (Shifted Pixels) @DavidVanderberg (uT.ag)


@noodles83 @nickhac (shifted pixels)


@stewface (shifted pixels) @brento (IBM)


@TimLonghurst @JJProjects

Thanks to everyone who came, it was a great night! If anyone at the event had thoughts or feedback about the event, please leave a comment!

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October 19th, 2008

Australia’s Top 50 Twitter Influencers (aka The Twitterati Top 50)


There have been a number of lists posted around the blogosphere about the Top 50 Australian bloggers or Top 100 australian marketing blogs etc.

As we couldn’t find an equivalent list for twitter – we put together a list of Australia’s most influential Twitterers.

Note: Shameless self promotion – this list was put together by @nickhac

This list is powered by BuzzNumbers:



The forumla we have used for calculating TwitterRank is:
TwitterRank = (Following / 10) + (Followers) + (Updates/100)
If you would like to propose an alternate formula we would be pleased to hear it.

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October 18th, 2008

Enterprise 2.0 – Wiki adoption within the enterprise

I was reading Mike Cannon-Brookes (co-founder atlassian) blog, and he had a post with his slidedeck from web directons south 2008 – Organisational Wiki Adoption.

It provides a really great insight into Organisational Wiki Adoption, if your interested in using Wiki’s within your company for collaboration – this is worth a few minutes to flip through

Organisational Wiki Adoptionhttp://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=organisational-wiki-adoption2549&stripped_title=organisational-wiki-adoption
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: intranet enterprise2.0)

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