Over the last couple of months I’ve been reporting on my journey into the world of development for Downwind.com.au. I’ve continued developing the site and adding features that I hoped would add value to a pilot’s experience so ultimately they would tell their friends about it and also return themselves….
For the past few months I’ve been getting increasingly aware that Whizzbangsblog really needed a complete overhaul. The current format and structure has been great for the past few years but I felt that it was about time that I got stuck into it and upgraded to new versions of…
About 12 months ago I remember hearing from a number of domainers that the domain industry is essentially protected from the Global Financial Crisis. I really couldn’t understand that thinking as ultimately any PPC income is dependent upon Google and Yahoo and they in turn depend upon advertisers.
The recent published…
For the past few weeks I’ve been reading about all the machinations between Thought Convergence and Name Intelligence. Who’s right and who is wrong and the number of varied opinions varies from insightful to the completely bazaar.
It’s almost like a days of our lives is unfolding in front of our…
The brightness of the day
is followed by the darkness of the night but
it’s the rays of the morning sun
that gives us hope.
So I’m not a poet but I think that the above really describes the state of the domain industry. At the moment many of us are experiencing times of…
As many of you know I love numbers and what you can or cannot interpret from them. After a bit of a hiatus I recently did a “dumpster dive” into masses of data to see how the domain world is progressing now that we are in the middle of a…
Over the last few weeks I’ve continued the research project of developing Downwind.com.au into a service and community for the aviation community. Recently I felt that it was time that I took stock of the results and worked out whether I had the makings of a great business or just…
So what was TRAFFIC Silicon Valley like? Was it worth it? Did the time, effort and jetlag really justify the trip? The short answer for me was an emphatic “yes”. There was a huge amount of business conducted at TRAFFIC and I believe that this was largely due to the…
So what was TRAFFIC Silicon Valley like? Was it worth it? Did the time, effort and jetlag really justify the trip? The short answer for me was an emphatic “yes”. There was a huge amount of business conducted at TRAFFIC and I believe that this was largely due to the…
So here I am, once again sitting in the Qantas club waiting for my plane on the way to TRAFFIC in Santa Clara. The only difference this time is that I’m in Sydney rather than Melbourne as I wanted to board the A380 (really big plane) as it has power…