Automattic, creators of WordPress, raised $29.5m on the 22nd of Jan. The cool thing is that alongside 3 very lucky VC firms is venerable NYTimes, who use WordPress as their blogging platform. Amazingly enough WordPress managed with just $1.1m of raised capital so far – not bad for a company that served 3.2 billion pages …
Category Archives: media
WordPress is dominant
Thinking of starting a blog? WordPress gives yet another reason to blog with them – 3 Gb of storage. This is up from a paltry 50MB, which essentially meant that you had to use photo servers from another site, such as flickr. WordPress is simple to set up, trivially easy to use, and free. You …
Set WiFi free
Over on Kiwiblog DPF guiltily confesses to using someone elses open Wireless connection for some internet time, and a trivial amount of data. There are several things wrong with this picture: 1: It isn’t normal to find open wireless connections in NZ. The reason for this, of course, is that we pay for MB usage, …
Some Ed Hillary Pictures worth seeing
A well played innings. Ed Hillary was one of very few Kiwis to play on the world stage and with maintained universal respect. More pictures at National Geographic
msn.nzherald.co.nz launches
So msn and APN have linked up. But to tell the impact you have to dig a little. The msn.co.nz page is unchanged: The msn news page has better news than before: But the links give it away – here’s the one beneath the main news picture: Indeed that news page is the NZHerald news …
BillG retires
Bill Gates’ last day video – starring Hillary Clinton, Obama, Al Gore, Dave Stewart (Daily Show), Bono, JayZ, Brian Williams…..
Aha! Tower of Power
Pretty amazing: Masses of power: up to 4 TB of hard disk drives, 32GB memory and 8 30 inch monitors. That’s a bit beyond the occasional spreadsheet…
Waiting for Apple
The Apple store is being updated. What new goodies are in store?
The Great Christmas Conspiracy
It’s been going on for years. Everyone is involved. Tens of thousands are conned each year, and we are all part of the grand conspiracy. It starts with the parents, is reinforced by the schools and assisted by department stores, grandparents, uncles, aunts, the media, the post office and even random strangers on the streets. …
iPhone – passe already in Australia?
I hear from Sydney that the iPhone is becoming a bit, well, common in the tech community. This before a release date has even been announced in Australia. Personally I’m a fan of only buying Apple goodies within days of launch date – to eliminate any concerns that, say, mac fanboy Rowan gets some Apple …
Fantastic Air NZ promotion
What can you say – is there any other airline in the world doing this sort of stuff? Air NZ’s grab-a-plane promo is an excellent idea with superb execution. It won’t last forever, so I’ve grabbed some screenshots. Here’s the ad:
The advance of VOIP
Via the economist this chart and shows VOIP taking about 20% of all international call minutes for 2006. Amazingly though regular international phone calls grew 10% between 2005 and 2006. I wonder how much was driven by falling prices, in turn driven by cheap and free VOIP.
Air NZ lousy promotion
Great: AirNZ runs a giant charity Auction each year Dumb: using Sellmefree as the vehicle. Here, for example, is 2 month’s worth of Business Class travel for two people. It was added 3 days ago, and should be attracting a bunch of traffic. The value of this to the right buyer is big. It costs …
How to launch a succesful blog
It’s simple. First – Use the giant NYTimes as your blog vehicle, and be part of an existing blog Second- Be a well known and followed writer – Pico Iyer Third – Pick a topic we all love to hate – Airlines and finally – start your blog by telling a bunch of Americans that …
The mobile web is irrelevant
Deserving of a separate post I think – those mobile browser stats show one important thing: Nobody cares about the web on mobile phones. The top 3 mobile browsers added up to a paltry 0.16% of web traffic, which for most Websites is approximately nothing. Of course if you are Google it’s a lot of …
Lance Wiggs 