No, sorry if you were thinking we’d won some sort of award.  I think we all hope that will happen, but know it never will.
This is a short post, because for the very first time ever, we’re featuring a video in a blog post.  Yup, we’re seriously behind the times on this, and should have [...]

Walter Isaacson, former managing editor of TIME, and President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, wrote last week’s Time Magazine cover story, entitled “How to Save Your Newspaper (It’s Micropayments!)“.
His article is all about how to save your newspaper from what appears to be inevitable financial ruin, and he believes the answer is micropayments.
“The key [...]

Glenbrook Payments News’s Scott Loftesness, in 2009, is exploring innovations in consumer payments in the United States – seeking to understanding how innovation happens, what the key drivers of innovation in payments are, and the people and organisational aspects of successful payments innovation.
You can help Scott by suggesting the innovations you consider most important – [...]

There was a time, not too long ago, when the concept of online wish lists meant that each site had to add a software script to their site, and users had to direct family and friends to the particular site.  They then had to know how to find the wish lists of people they knew, [...]

eBay.com.au and PayPal.com.au have teamed up to run a competition for buyers, encouraging them to pay with PayPal on their mobile phone for items bought on eBay up to 30th September. There’s the chance of winning a $25,000 prize based on a series of cascading prize draws.

Australia has been a hot-bed of innovation in the mobile-phone based payments industry for several years, with initiatives from several of their banks based around home-grown developments by local inventors and entrepreneurs. It’s no surprise therefore for PayPal Australia to be entering this market at a time when the plastic card could be replaced by built-in applications on cell phones.

Those of us lucky enough to have regular work that involves travelling a lot in far flung lands, soon become aware that not everyone speaks our native language with the same fluency as ourselves. Have eBay finally heard the sellers complaining that buyers never read the auction titles and descriptions? Are they now determined to impose upon the buyers, the education they should have taken notice of in grade school? If so, this could be one of the most positive moves eBay have taken in a long time.

If what vzaar and eBay are telling us, is true about video in listings, then it’s time to up your game and have some fun at the same time. (Yes, you did read that right – eBid has, for several months already, had a facility for you to put your YouTube videos into auctions on their site.)

Concerns about border security and terrorism drive government surveillance initiatives, says report
from ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON – Individual privacy is under threat in the United States and across the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and border control, an international rights group said in a report.  Greece, Romania [...]

A comment I read somewhere prompted me to think about domain names for websites ….
Our own domain name buildaskill.com might seem obvious enough, especially when we Capitalise within the name string – BuildaSkill.com – but there are people out there who like to play with words, and why not?  It is after all an ancient [...]

China has launched it’s first lunar orbiter & surveying spacecraft.
India and Japan are said to be close on their heels, and China has announced it wants to put a robotic rover on the moon within 5 years, followed by a manned expedition by 2020.  They are looking for an element known as Helium-3, a non-radioactive [...]