Long live Soundwave. Seriously, I hate these death posts as much as anyone, but there is a slowly rotting corpse in the room we need to talk about: Soundwave Festival. Making its national debut in 2007, Soundwave Festival was a breath of fresh air. Finally a music festival that catered to the hard rock, metal loving younger and older generation. Soundwave Festival has been responsible for bring out the kind of bands no other festival would think of bringing.
(seriously) If you’re like me you have a tonne of ideas in notebooks, random text documents on your computer and in your head. Sadly, not every idea is a winner. Here are some ideas that you should immediately put a red marker through if they are on your list. Another dating app Everyone thinks they have the answer to the problem of online dating. You do not. The dating space just like the travel space is highly competitive and larger more aggressive players will crush you like a cockroach.
FINALLY! In a recent townhall Q&A hosted by Mark Zuckerberg in Delhi, India at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), the Zuckster vowed to kill Facebook game invites. Whether we will see requests culled before the end of 2015 remains to be seen. But it is nice to know that Mark and presumably others at Facebook are aware how annoying they are. I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg ever gets game requests for Candy Crush as well?
You have probably heard that Apple is planning to launch Apple Pay via a partnership with American Express in various countries outside of the US, including Australia in 2016. I know you are probably thinking, why American Express, don’t like 10 people in Australia own an Amex card? Yes, you are correct. The reason Apple went with Amex is because no other provider or bank outside of the US wanted to give up their card fees.
With a surprisingly vote of most votees in favour, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) has controversially passed in the United States senate. The final senate vote on Tuesday afternoon was 74 to 21, passing with ease and clearing the path for the bill to become law. The whole purpose of CISA is supposed to be to prevent the rising trend of corporate data breaches, by allowing companies to share data with the Department of Homeland Security who would then in turn most likely share it with other agencies like the NSA or FBI to help defend the company and others under attack.
I have been loving Medium lately. Since its new version launched, I have been more engaged in its content and reading some great articles. This morning I came across an article title Please, don’t commit commented out code – based on the title, I am sure you can work out what the article is about. I think many of us have been guilty of committing commented out code into the main source repository. It happens, sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally.
There is no disputing the fact Steve Jobs was a highly accomplished man. While he did not do it alone, he was instrumental in turning Apple around and making it the most valuable company in the world. He saw what nobody else could see at Apple and he knew what kind of people he needed to make it happen. Even years after his death, Apple shows no signs of slowing down and continues to hold more money than most first-world government treasuries.
When it comes to raising money, there are not many apps that can attract as much capital and interest as Uber can. A Techcrunch story suggests Uber are looking to raise another $1 billion funding round (yes, that is one billion dollars). A mere 3 months ago, Uber raised a $1b round and they’re set to do it again. This would place their valuation between $60 billion and $70 billion respectively.
I love freshly baked sliced bread. I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t love sliced bread, except maybe people who can’t have gluten or anything else found in bread. Which reminds me, how overrated is Jarryd Hayne? Don’t answer that. It’s a rhetorical question. Because he is a former NRL (National Rugby League) star here in Australia, the media clings on and hypes him up like he is a member of the Kardashian family.
I know you’re probably stunned right now, perhaps even in a little state of shock hearing that. But it is true: I don’t really like Star Wars all that much. There are only a handful of movie franchises that can pull a dedicated following like Star Wars has. In-fact, I can’t think of another movie series that even comes close to rivalling it. There are conventions, tonnes of merchandise, games and basically anything that can have branding on it probably comes in a Star Wars variant.