The Geek Stories

The Geek Stories

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The Geek Stories, from Nick Hodge: Professional Geek for Microsoft. Exploring Geek Stories from ordinary people, all over Australia and the world.
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Australia ReMIX08 Keynote, Sydney

Posted By: Nick Hodge | May 26th, 2008 @ 9:14 PM

Australia ReMIX08 Keynote, Melbourne

Posted By: Nick Hodge | May 26th, 2008 @ 12:22 AM

Mark Pesce, Only Connect

Posted By: Nick Hodge | May 26th, 2008 @ 12:18 AM
The socially, hyper-connected revolution we are living through will have significant impact on the future. Not only of our social, after-hours work lives: but also within the cube-farm.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: future, Internet, Wikipedia

30 minutes of Good Barry

Posted By: Nick Hodge | May 26th, 2008 @ 12:10 AM

Managing a micro-business online, or offline, usually involves paperwork. Lots of it. From customer enquiries to invoicing, the tracking of your biggest concern: the customer, is a tough task.

Shouldn’t computers and the internet make business easier?

You could just create a blog. Then add an email follow up system. Then another customer birthday card system. Very soon you are moving your data across too many diverse systems.

GoodBarry, a winner of the Transaction 2.0 "Best Aussie Business Startup" at last week’s CeBIT conference in Sydney, is the perfect answer.

Recently highlighted for their innovative marketing, in this video interview we see an in depth demonstration of GoodBarry.
Tags: thegeekstories, web, web analytics, web2.0

Geek Gadgets of Yesteryear

Posted By: Nick Hodge | May 20th, 2008 @ 11:41 PM

Did Geeks exist in the 19th Century? They sure did. Did they have Geek gadgets. Oh, yes they did!

In this episode of The Geek Stories, see Matthew Connell, Curator of Mathematics and Computing at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, give a quick snoop through their secret storage area.

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Tags: History, thegeekstories

A 19th Century Geek

Posted By: Nick Hodge | May 19th, 2008 @ 7:18 AM
Did Geeks, as we know them today: polymaths, introverted, shy with the opposite sex exist in earlier times? They sure did.

In this episode of The Geek Stories, hear and see a story of a true 19th Century Geek, William Stanley Jevons...[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: History, photography, thegeekstories

Email to the Future

Posted By: Nick Hodge | May 16th, 2008 @ 5:47 AM
In this episode of The Geek Stories, I trek into the archives of the Powerhouse Museum and see documents exchanged between Lady Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage and a Brunel.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: History, thegeekstories

Support Your Local Barcamp

Posted By: Nick Hodge | Apr 13th, 2008 @ 8:43 PM
A Barcamp is an international network of user-generated conferences. Barcamps are purposely open, relatively unorganised and, well, fun. Support your local Barcamp. Attend, and more importantly, participate.[Click to read the full post ]
Tag: BarCamp

Marketing, LOL-style

Posted By: Nick Hodge | Apr 7th, 2008 @ 10:25 PM

GoodBarry, a Web 2.0 company and their application GoodBusiness fills that need to deal with the boring administration and sales stuff as you have fun making cool things online.

Rather than traditional marketing with boring brochures and long videos of CEOs extolling the virtues of GoodBarry: Brett Welch has followed in the lead of the Windows Home Server team: write a story book...

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Tags: LOLCATS, Windows Home Server

New Weee Laptop Companions

Posted By: Nick Hodge | Apr 4th, 2008 @ 2:01 AM
A usable laptop for US$300? 512Mb of RAM, 4Gb of storage, wireless and ethernet networking. Able to run my Windows applications. No, never. Not in my lifetime. Oh my how technology changes.[Click to read the full post ]
Tag: Windows XP
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