So Balnarring shopping centre has become infested with holidaymakers buying up their hams, turkeys, slabs of VicBitter, SavBlanc bottles, but all is good as festivity levels increase. If you can keep your sanity and not kill family members, then that is good. It’s also crossover period as there are a couple important business tasks to complete, namely get some client feeds working, and also make $ure I can feed myself, um literally. Must get paid. Must get January work. Feel free to make all manners of offers, I feel like doing some labouring jobs over summer, maybe I can secure a new identity that posits me as a uni student ?
TODAY’S RANDOM LINKS
If you are the Ed Hardy designer - Christian Audigier, as worn under contra sponsorship by Mick Gatto (”He is among those “celebrities” invited to spice up the local opening of clothes store Ed Hardy, where Gatto will surely pick up some more of those must-have “Love Kills Slowly” T-shirts.“), head of Italian Mafioso, you can design a $690K Lambo via Autoblog.
HubSpot’s Twitter User Segmentation Research via TechCrunch
- Average number of both followers and following is about 70.
- For those with 50 or fewer followers (three quarters of all users), the average number of followers is 15.6 and the average number of people they are following is 18.4.
- 3 percent had 0 followers, 9 percent didn’t follow anyone else, and 22 percent had five or fewer followers)
- 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008
- 20% of Twitter users have joined in the past 60 days
- The average user has been on Twitter 275 days
- The most popular days of the week to Tweet are Wednesday and Thursday
- An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts are registered each day.
- Only 5 percent of all Twitter users have more than 250 followers.
- Only 0.8 percent have more than 1,000
Webware review on Scrapplet : “Want to grab your Twitter stream and put that on the same page as your Friendfeed? With Scrapplet, that’s possible. In just a few simple maneuvers, Scrapplet allows you to highlight portions of a Web page or an entire site, drag it to the Scrapplet page, and modify the design of that page to make it fit. In fact, you can resize the site, change the site’s colors, and remove borders. In essence, you can create an entire Web page out of existing sites for your own consumption.”
New York Observer on Magazine Business Online Rollercoaster : ““I have to tell you, fortune.com is working out brilliantly,” said Mr. Serwer, according to one former staffer. After his opening remarks, he singled out individual Web writers for all their breaking news. For those exclusive enterprise stories on the Web. Those ticktocks, and those trenchant second-day stories. The speech, staffers said, made the horse and cart of the print and the Web seem to chase each other around the maypole. Which is dominant? At any rate, the Web did matter. Well, less than two months later, the Web team at Fortune has been all but disbanded. With Time Inc. under the gun to lay off 600 staffers, each magazine has had the burden of deciding who’s disposable.”
Source : Grotesk
PingFm funding : “As we have now returned from our trip to San Francisco, we come bearing gifts of good news. The main purpose of our trip was to have a formal meet & greet with our new investors Joi Ito and Reid Hoffman. We know the past month or so has been a hassle trying to use our site and services. This is mainly because of not having the resources to maintain the volume of users and overall traffic we are seeing. This investment will allow us to scale our hardware to improve the reliability of our service as well as continue to increase the awesome that is Ping.fm instead of babysitting smoking servers all day.”
Rocketboom also expanding to 7 days a week, found via Dunc, on Andrew Baron’s blog : “If I had to extract one major point - a single insight for a business like Rocketboom - I’d say it all comes down to content. In the earliest stages of creating a content business, if you find yourself spread too thin trying to do everything from business dev to producing to tech, it might be better to spend the majority of your time improving your final content offering. With that, everything else will likely come more easily. With everything we do, it’s always the day to day episodes that we want to make as wonderful as possible. Every day counts.”
Enjoyed : Frost/Nixon last nite (DVD_Screener quality), thought Sean Penn in Milk was better, but Frost/Nixon was definitely a good West Wing-ish viewing.
Watching Bottle Shock : “The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as “Judgment of Paris”.
