http://www.danieldykes.com Entrepreneurship, Musings, Patriotism, and Genealogy Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:27:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In one of my rolls I do a lot of work with Hasbro and their i-Dog range. So looking at future expansions (look out for the iTiger, iFish, and iCy the Penguin) Allan and I note the only thing missing is a i-Purple Cow. A silly idea and a few e-mails ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/10/29/allan-and-the-iamoeba/ Apparently doing something different isn't always going to be received well by the Australian Fashion Week organisers. At least, that's the way you'd perceive it if you opened today's Herald Sun or listened to 3AW. There's a massive storm over MaraJoara's decision to cast, with the help of Rogue Connect amongst others, ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/09/07/marajoara-and-their-everyday-models/ It's by far the quickest development Rogue Connect has ever done. What we'd have normally have spent a month doing has been achieved in 4 days. We've partnered with Australian label MaraJoara to help find models for the closing show of the Australian Fashion Week Transeasonal Collection. We're also looking for ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/08/14/model-casting-for-australian-fashion-week-mr-world/ In amongst various other projects that I’m currently working on, Rogue has set about launching its first ‘initiative’ outside of the members only site. Called style spy, the initiative will aim to change the way in which fashion trends are measured and set. We’ve been working on it for some months ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/07/31/style-spy-fashion/ Saturday night heralded another fashion show in Melbourne, and this time I remembered to take along my camera. I've put up most of the photos into my Fashion group at Flickr. You can also see them all in 'Photos from Sabi Lingerie Spring / Summer 06 Collection' in the Lifestyle Blog ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/07/17/photos-from-the-sabi-lingerie-spring-summer-06-collection/ I came across this today at Seth Godin's blog. Rogue Connect has been accused of being elitist, but even when applicants aren't given membership we don't rub it in their faces like Continental seem to do to paying customers. http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/05/05/obviously-not-a-rogue-connect-member/ After a few weeks of behind-the-scenes work, I'm proud to unveil the third major revamp of Rogue Connect, my exclusive social networking community. There was a lot of behind-the-scenes work put into the new site. Allan, for one, has put together a fantastic design which was an absolute pleasure to ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/04/23/new-face-for-social-networking-site/ When we launch the latest major update to Rogue Connect (the current launch date is set for May 1) there'll be a lot of obvious changes - none so obvious as the new feel of the site. Despite this, we've also been putting a lot of work into some very ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/04/16/small-and-subtle-changes/ A (quasi) working preview of the new Rogue Connect design can now be found the site's blog / news area. It's still a little rough, but it's our current attempt to provide a working preview (and hopefully ease our members in to it) while experimenting with Joomla template creation. http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/04/15/new-rogue-connect-designer/ As I've just posted on the Young Go Getter forums Rogue Connect has a new design coming. We're working on it at the moment, and have been for about a week now. What we're setting out to do is create more than just a design, more than just graphical elements. To ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/04/08/new-design-for-rogue-connect/ Flattery will get you everywhere; I'm joining this site (with any luck) because it seems to be damned better than myspace, where the average IQ has to level at around 0.000001, give or take. http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/03/31/more-nice-things-about-rogue-connect/ Looking over some of the applications for exclusive membership at Rogue Connect today I came across this application; boring boring fella ... dont know wat to write ... just lemme in(please)... i wanna see sexy laydees It seems that the essence of the site is getting across. For reference, he didn't get in. ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/03/27/sexy-ladies-exclusive-club/ I'm back from overseas today (a trip into the Far East), if you've been trying to get in touch with me I'll get back to you asap! http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/03/26/back-from-overseas/ For the first time on Rogue Connect we've invoked our exclusive status and deleted the accounts of people who have applied for membership, but have failed to be given it by our members. All up we've deleted over 100 applications, the list was simply becoming too long. We are looking at ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/03/08/exclusive-social-networking/ Wow, it's the sort of publicity a lot of people would kill for, but apparently only a girl named Tammy from Singapore can get. Tammy's had her mobile phone stolen you see, and video from it has been loaded onto the internet for everyone to download. I'm sure there's the run ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/03/01/tammy-nyp-video/ I've had this for sometime now, and on the last incarnation of DanielDykes.com it was certainly one of the most view articles so certainly worth getting back up again! The Dykes Family This family appears to have been at an early period located near the Great Roman Wall, or Dyke, which crossed ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/02/25/dykes-genealogy-family-surname/ It's always good to have a sense of humour about your own industry, so when I came across MySpace - The Movie! while perusing YouTube I couldn't help but laugh at what is essentially a short film taking the mickey out of social networking sites. http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/02/09/myspace-the-movie/ It's a reflection of the sheer penetration of online social networks into the real world, but Playboy have now announced that they'll be doing an special edition issue; "Girls of MySpace". Really, it's a stroke of genius for Playboy. With a multitude of initiatives, particularly their clothing and accessory line, they've ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/02/01/playboy-and-myspace-girls/ Folksonomy tagging is almost a buzz-word, an 'integral' part of Web 2.0, but it's something that can only be found on a few of the hottest and most discussed sites of the moment. While Technorati features it, and Flickr depends on it, tagging is yet to become main stream. But ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/01/26/rogue-connect-goes-folksonomy-tag-crazy/ Over the course of the past fortnight we've actually snuck it into the site, but without any annoucement (ironically I'll be blogging about that after this post) Rogue Connect has launched a folksonomy tagging tool for use by our members. It's been less than a fortnight of testing it by tagging ... http://www.danieldykes.com/2006/01/20/social-analysis-of-tagging/