Dipping into the Blogpond

Ok, so we all know the “Big 3” search engines in Australia – namely Google, Yahoo! and Live (ninemsn.com.au), as well as the stalwart Altavista (owned by Overture/Yahoo!), but I recently delved into local search engine alternatives and was quite surprised at the breadth of choice. Let’s have a look at some of the alternatives:- […]

This post from North x East quotes figures from Onestat.com which indicates that Firefox has almost a 27% market penetration in Australia “The most popular browsers in Australia are:       January 2007 1. Microsoft IE 65.71% 2. Mozilla Firefox 26.68% 3. Opera 4.28% 4. Apple Safari 1.77% 5. Netscape 0.24%” Australian IT (also […]

Nearly a month ago I wrote about Blogging in Australia basically because I’m interested in local Australian content. I thought I’d revisit that post in a more structured and in depth way. To do that effectively, we need to separate Australian Blogging into two categories – Australian blog hosts and Australian blog search engines or […]

Well it’s been an interesting week – typical rollercoaster week in the life of a startup. Sometimes I just want to stop the ride, and hop off. But that’s just *not* going to happen. A couple of important meetings this week, outcomes still pending. I’ve learned not to hold my breath, or devote too much […]

I only became aware of Google Webmaster Tools about six weeks ago, and I think it is a really valuable tool. We currently use Google Analytics to monitor traffic, Google Adwords and more recently Google Adsense and have found all these service to be really terrific (only negative is the occasional delay of Analytics, but […]

Via a post entitled 42 Cool Australian Internet Startups on the Rave About it blog I found out about a terrific Australian initiative being undertaken by Jon Yau at Australianblogs.com.au. Building on a post by Vishal Sharma (later reproduced and edited by Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web), Jon has created an Australian wiki page and […]

Good Lord! I’m surrounded by cats! My neighbour to the left owns 5, and the lady to the right owns 7. We have a dog. It should be interesting. I’m referring to the meteoric rise of the 2000 bloggers initiative by Tino Buntic. Are you over the excitement of seeing your face on the mosaic, […]

Woot! Today marks a month of blogging – do I qualify as a “preblogger” yet? What have I learnt (or is that learned?) in a month of blogging? Gee glad you asked ;). Blogging is time consuming, especially when you’re not particularly creative (hence the drab look of this blog and shoddy graphics). There are […]

Another interesting post by Alister Cameron, this time highlighting the strength of viral marketing in Australia. A funny read.

OK, so I’m taking a moment to do the “mummy blog” thing. But a milestone is a milestone. Today Jessica, who just turned 5, started school (much to the disgust of Nikki – little sister and best friend up until now, who won’t be starting until next year). Off she went absolutely ready, as she […]