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Posts from 2004 to 2017. This was a personal blog during a fairly chaotic decade in independent publishing — some of it tech commentary, some of it Australia, some of it ephemera. It’s kept here in full for anyone who arrives via an old link.
Current writing lives at SiliconANGLE.
Has Chartreuse finally gone to far?
Chartreuse Reloaded is finally up. The pdf info sheet linked to on the site states there’s going to be a $9.95 monthly charge for membership, although I take it some of the “cool” kids will probably get a free pass. I wrote last week that their were no rules, and I suppose if anyone could […]
When VC’s disappoint, or why I’m happy Fred Wilson didn’t invest in b5media
You know, sometimes by reading a persons blog you think you get a fairly good picture of the person, and until today I had a pretty good impression of Fred Wilson. Admitedly, the guy isn’t in my Bloglines subs, but I do fairly regularly visit his blog. I’ve always thought of him as being an […]
Pandora’s Box
OK, so I’m late to the party on this one, but I’ve been spending a good part of the last week on Pandora. The sound quality is top notch, and the selection technology good to boot. Ignore the fact if you register that you’re suppose to be in the States, any 5 digits make up […]
90% chance that Google is in talks to acquire YouTube, 10% chance it will happen
I mentioned in passing, in this post, my theory on leaks. You see, in this post I used the figure that 50% of all leaks are authorised by the company involved as either a way to talk up/ hype a launch, or as a way to market test an idea or product. I used that […]
The new Firefox is lightning quick
Just read Scoble saying that the new Firefox, currently at RC 2 is quick. He’s right, just downloaded it then, I’ve immediately noticed the different. Also a tip for Firefox users, if you haven’t downloaded it yet, get DownThemAll. From their page: “DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an […]
Viral Marketing 101
Credit where it’s due, Quadszilla over at SEO Black Hat might just be on to something with this post.
Tesltra sacks Blogger for being some what honest
Cam has a scoop. Idiots. Good help someone that they write the truth, and in this case it was only in part the truth, after all, we all know how completely and utterly up sh*t creek Telstra are as a Telco 🙂
Technorati launches Vlog, but wouldn’t it be nice if they actually focused on the core product first
Technorati has launched a daily Vlog. Great. Great way to promote the service, but I can’t help but ask the question: why spend time doing a Vlog when your rank service is still broken? Case in point: Notice the 862 incoming links down the bottom, and yet it’s ranked on 628 links? There are 37% […]
The future of political blogging is here
I’m surprised none of the A-List picked up on this. David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative (Tory) Party in the UK has launched his own blog, and to make it more interesting, it’s a video blog at that. And dare I say, it’s pretty damn good. Sure, I’m not interested as an Australian in […]
Technorati just made spam blogging a whole lot easier
Steve Rubel: Technorati Intros Smarter Blog Search Feeds Spam blogging just got a whole lot easier. Why rip a feed or two when you can just get a smart topic feed from Technorati on auto pilot and without the need for an account. OK, so they’re part feeds. Guess what, the parsing part from the […]
MySpace could be worth $15 billion US in 3 years
This is nuts. Beyond nuts. Interesting usage figures though, given I’ve read elsewhere lately that the 100 million users figure for MySpace is rubbish due to inactive accounts etc, Reuters claims MySpace has 90 million active users. Amazing, but still a crazy valuation.
Scoble launches the Scoble Show
The Scoble Show. Got to say it’s pretty damn good. Scoble avoids the mistakes of many in podcasting by keeping the interviews fairly short and punchy so they don’t drag on (like that horrid podcast he was on with Arrington and Om over at Techcruch the other day). I’ve only watched a few so far […]
Techcrunch moves to part feeds, will Scoble and others boycott it?
All of a sudden the previously full feed from Techcrunch has moved to a part feed (click image for larger shot)…is this an accident or a deliberate move? Will Scoble and others who hate part feeds now boycott Techcrunch? Developing… 🙂 Tags: Techcrunch, Scoble
NY Times looking for a WordPress developer
Michael over at the Solostream blog posts that the NY Times is looking for a WordPress developer. As much as it’s nice to know that even a huge MSM company like the NY Times group is using WordPress, the criteria is a bit rough, in particular “2-3 years experience developing and maintaining WordPress blogs”. That […]
Techcrunch rips Zecco
Techcrunch reviews Zecco. WTF? God help us that there’s a startup with a business plan that actually might meet an unmet niche….oh no, because Techcrunch would much rather hype flash in the pan over capitalised and business plan free startups that create solutions for problems that don’t exist. But probably more seriously here, who at […]
Is Mike Arrington and TechCrunch taking legal action against Techcrush?
Interesting post at Techcrush, a Web 2.0 review site: We put down our pencils here at the Crush-Room for the next days due to possible legal issues. Please stay with us, we will see how things are going to work out. Legal issues? we’ll the only possible person who could have legal issues with the […]
MeeVee: you just know this is a Web 2.0 startup bound to fail
Techcrunch covers an upgrade to the Web 2.0 television guide site MeeVee. It’s a service that offers….a television guide….I’m so under whelmed, after all it’s something MSN and Yahoo to name but a few have been offering for years, not to forget hundreds of other sites. But it’s Web 2.0 I hear people saying, it’s […]
Welcome to Engadgetscape
Engadget has a new look. Nice. But am I the only one at this stage to have noticed that the back end changes in terms of voting on comments etc is Netscape. Clever work by Jason Calacanis to leverge the scripting from Netscape into his Blogsmith platform though. Still no support for trackbacks though. As […]
The sleeping minow wakes
Performancing has a job listed for a Google Blogger. The company hiring is a firm by the name of Visual Connect. It’s an Australian company, never heard of them prior to now, but it’s the second time in as many weeks I’ve seen Australian companies expand into blog network plays. Of course, new blog networks […]
The Blogging Times seeks an intern
Minic over at The Blogging Times is advertising for an intern. It’s a non-paid position but by being part of that team you not only get exposure at the site, you also get to pick the brains of the Hunter S Thompson of the Blogosphere, Chartreuse. Recommended.