Collin Van Uden

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07 Jan 2011

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Collin Van Uden is a consultant in our Ballarat Back Of House Support Centre, who takes a great interest in how things work, and (sometimes more importantly) how they do not.

A father of three daughters, and brother to three sisters before that, he has become accustomed to the fact that he is, generally speaking, wrong about everything.

A casual observer on wider technology trends, the internet and the social media ‘space’, Collin is first and foremost an avid lover of words. He hopes you don’t mind him sharing some with you – and wouldn’t mind a bit if you felt the need to reciprocate.

Why IS a raven like a writing desk anyway?

07 Jan 2011

Author: Collin Van Uden.
There are a plethora of metaphors, analogies and euphemisms for the assorted social networks that have arisen around us in the digital age. It’s said that LinkedIn is the business meeting. Facebook is the hallway conversation (or raucous Pub brawl, depending on who you’ve ‘friended’ I suppose). Twitter is the cocktail party. Yammer and its ilk; the office “water cooler”. MySpace.. well, aside from “the kiddies table” and perhaps the “shed where the kids play that awful music”, I don’t have a whole lot to say about MySpace. And now we have Quora.

1 Comment »Filed under:education, Quora, social media, social trends, technology, thinking, trends

Posted in Technology

Touched by touch

28 Oct 2010

Author: Collin Van Uden.
Telstra released a summary of the inaugural Telstra Smartphone Index recently, and the results would seem to be pretty clear. Australia loves ‘em. I thought I’d ponder some reasons why that might be.

1 Comment »Filed under:gadgets and gizmos, HTC, innovation, lifestyle, smart phone, T-Touch Tab, thinking, touch

Posted in Technology

The Movie about Facebook (based on the book about Facebook)

16 Sep 2010

Author: Collin Van Uden.
The Social Network. You may not have heard of it, but you will. If only because it stars that one member of ‘NSync who’s name we can all easily remember.

14 Comments »Filed under:customers, entertainment, Facebook, social trends, YouTube

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