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Kiteboarding Tofo | Mozambique
December 29, 2009 - 11:28 am
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Tofo Mozambique is an amazingly beautiful place, right near the inhambane peninsula / lagoon but on the indian ocean side, it’s Africa though so be prepared for the heat, the mozzies and the 2M beer!
Here’s a brief run down of the kiting that I managed to get done in Dec 09:
We were there for around [...]
Is all the South African VC only going to go to internet startups with proven revenue models?
October 9, 2009 - 1:49 pm
Tags: Springleap, Venture Capital
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With the recent news of the springleap investment by Lord Duncan Barratt(??) (Original press release) it left me wondering whether initiatives like Siliconcape will ever really help South African internet startups get anywhere.
Most bootstrapping, hardcore internet startups do not have any idea on their revenue model when they get going (dare I mention twitter?). They [...]
Carrier Pigeon Faster than ADSL in SA – Winston now an internet celebrity.
September 10, 2009 - 2:56 pm
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So I first read about this story here:
First Story
And then got a few more links sent to me about this story:
Second Story
Which was probably prompted by the huge response to it trending on Twitter:
Twitter Trend
And many other sites mentioning it:
Mashable
Reuters
Classic.
Follow Winston here:
Winston
Classic SEO quotes
September 7, 2009 - 9:13 am
Tags: Analytics, SEO
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Avinash Kaushik Quotes that Belong on Hallmark Cards:
(Specifically related to Analytics)
7. Not segmenting data is a crime against humanity.
6. Never let your campaigns write checks that your website can’t cash.
5. I believe God created the internet so we could fail faster.
4. Magazine advertisements are faith based initiatives.
3. All data needs context, even server errors go [...]
Kiteboarding Hurghada Egypt – Magawish Hotel
September 4, 2009 - 11:21 am
Tags: Egypt, Hurghada, Kiting
Posted in Kiteboarding, Kitesurfing | 1 Comment
What a contrast, Beautiful blue water, Rough hard dry desert, and fat russian tourists.
Flying into hurghada the blue coral reefs are simply amazing from the air and coming into land we spotted kites up and polesurfers cruising across the water.
Had an airport holdup – prayer time – so we couldn’t interrupt the customs officer, to [...]
Bing and Yahoo sitting in a tree…
July 30, 2009 - 5:54 pm
Tags: Microsoft buys Yahoo
Posted in SEO, Strategy | No Comments
Bing and Yahoo sitting in a tree…
So what does it mean?
There’s a fairly lengthy explanation in terms of SEO here:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/top-10-things-the-microsoftyahoo-deal-change-for-seo
But what it really comes down to is this:
There are now two main Search players, Bing vs Google, all others will probably either fall by the wayside or be eaten up by one or the other.
Google [...]
Hurghada, Egypt wind reports/statistics and forecasts.
July 22, 2009 - 2:53 pm
Tags: Hurghada Egypt kiteboarding location
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Hurghada wind reports/statistics and forecasts.
So i’ve been looking for sites that may have the current wind statisticss for hurghada because of my upcoming trip there in August, and found a lot of links broken or confusing.
So here’s a breakdown of what I’ve found so far:
The usual suspects:
http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/hurghada
http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=13
(This one has an ‘adjusted’ forecast by colona watersports, [...]
Nobile IFS Pro Footpads – Awesomeness
July 16, 2009 - 6:08 pm
Tags: Nobile
Posted in Kiteboarding, Kitesurfing | 2 Comments
So even if people say these footpads look dated, I decided to go ahead and buy a pair for myself. I’ve been on the same Nobile 555 board for almost 3 years now, so my current footpads are worn out and were in desperate need of replacement.
@ R1000 for the pair they are pretty pricey, [...]
Google chrome OS strategy cards played a little early?
July 8, 2009 - 1:37 pm
Tags: Google Apps, Google Chrome OS, Google Strategy
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Google chrome OS strategy cards played a little early?
I saw that Google had mistakenly removed their free version of google apps the other day via @smneedham:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-free-version-of-google-apps/?awesm=tcrn.ch_5IM&utm_campaign=techcrunch&utm_content=techcrunch-autopost&utm_medium=tcrn.ch-twitter&utm_source=direct-tcrn.ch
and then saw the announcement of the google chrome OS via @desbothma http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
and wondered whether this isn’t a case of them slipping up and showing their strategy cards a little [...]
Google Adsense for Domains – an experiment.
July 3, 2009 - 4:56 pm
Tags: Adsense for domains
Posted in Adsense, SEO | No Comments
So I decided to try a little experiment last night:
I added two google adsense for domains to my adsense account for the following two domains:
www.harpers.co.za
www.snapcracklepop.co.za
(Both are domains I registered for fun, and are purely placeholders for something I may do in the future)
Now it did take a while to configure in WHM as it involves being [...]
