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Archive for May, 2008

Saasu.com win Top CeBIT Price

Fellow Aussie SaaS provider and all-round nice guys, Saasu.com have taken out the an award at CeBIT 2008.

Congratulations guys, It’s just a shame that time commitments prevented me going over to Syndey for the event.

Scheduled outage

Just a quick note that 88 Miles will be down for about 30 minutes on Friday, 23 May from 6am UTC (2pm Perth time), as our hosting provider will be performing some hardware upgrades.

Sorry for any inconvenience that may cause.

88 Miles mentioned in PCMag

I just noticed that that 88 Miles was mentioned in PCMag, along with a 529 other hints and tips…

BarCamp 2.0 Perth – A resounding success!

Over the weekend, the Perth geek community participated in the second BarCamp — as unconference-style event, where all of the content is generated by the participants (88 Miles was one of the sponsors. There was a vast array of talks ranging from how to use Twitter to Data portability to using Ruby on Rails and Flex.

It was a fantastic day, with over 80 people braving the wet weather. There was even a couple of visitors for over east!

Giant Dice created Silicon Breach, a persuasive game especially for the day, where players were allocated into Web 2.0 companies, then had to find other “business associates”, and steal ideas from other “companies”. The game was really well received with a large number of “Corporate meetings” through out the day. Corporate espionage has never been so fun.

But the biggest announcemnet of the day was that Western Australia is going to get their very own Web Conference this year. Branded, the Edge of the Web, it will be on the 6th and 7th of November 2008. Head over the the website, and pick the logo!