Martin Wells

Whilst I’m no Microsoft evangelist, I’ll give them credit where it’s due. Office 2007 has some issues (especially Outlook 2007 and speed) but generally it’s a major leap. What I really like though is OneNote. Here’s 10 fast reasons why:

1. It’s fast. Really fast. You can load, create a page and be writing in a few seconds.
2. Tags, with searchable organisation. I can throw all sorts of stuff in there and just tag something with “Blog”, “todo”, “personal”. I can then see a structured search showing me only the selected items I want.
3. Follow-up flags are simple to add and serve as automated reminders.
4. Its an office app, so it plays nicely with everybody and integrates beautifully with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and best of all, Outlook.
5. Keyboard shortcuts for anything, including a system-wide Windows-N to create a quick note from within any other application.
6. You can take a photo of a business card and it’ll let you extract the details as text (cool).
7. You can record audio of your meetings (I use my Pocket PC) and it’ll let you search the contents (cooler).
8. Editing almost as good as word — tables, drawing, spell checker.
9. You can just type in simple calcs (like 100*25=), and One Note will complete it for you.
10. You can download and run it for free as a part of the 2007 beta.
11. It syncs perfectly withmy Pocket PC. (OK, so that’s 11 things… sue me)

I wonder when they’ll add blogging support directly from a OneNote page.

What happens when in the middle of the night your highly-secured data centre is seemingly broken in to? Who could bypass the security and gain access to your machines. Well, elite corporate ninjas of course.

TPN have made an interesting move: they are experimenting with selling advertising on their network through an auction process on Ebay. Will be interesting to see the results. Whilst individual TPN shows are not rocketbooms, there’s still very sizable audiences (tens of thousands) across a wide variety of categories.

You can read more about it over here. Ads are starting at $250, which is well… a bargain.

Tangler is hiring again. Our Sydney office needs another web 2.0 developer.

Must have:

• Web standards awareness
• Cross platform / browser awareness
• Ability to create pixel perfect layouts
• CSS, HTML, XHTML, AJAX, DHTML, Javascript
• Java, JSP, JSP tags

Nice to have:

• An eye for graphic design
• Experience in Photoshop / Illustrator, Spring Web MVC (or equivalent), DWR
• Javascript libraries like Prototype, JQuery, Script.aculo.us

Send an email to jobs at tangler.com if you’re interested.

Last night, Alan Jones and I had the pleasure of hosting a dinner bringing together some of the Web 2.0 people in Sydney. We spent a great night at the Malaya restaurant in Darling Harbour. Thanks to everyone for attending. Much beer, curry, pitches and ideas were consumed.

Attending were:

• Alan Jones (Blue Pulse)
• Martin Wells (Tangler)
• Nik Cubrilovic (Omnidrive)
• Renai Lemai (ZDNet)
• Rhandy Lado (Tangler)
• Oliver Wiedlich (Ideal Interfaces)
• Yorke Hindes (Zookoda)
• David Tow (Channel 31)
• Mike Cannon-Brookes (Atlassian)
• Craig Baker (Tangler)

This should become a regular event from now on, so feel free to ping me if you’re life-tagged with ‘web 2.0′ and ’sydney’ and want to attend.

Photos over here.