I’m a pretty big fan of PayPerPost and I’ve been watching them for several months now. I knew it wouldn’t be long until they broke through with something big. I wasn’t let down…
PayPerPost: PPP Closes $3 Million in Venture Financing
PayPerPost is a behind-the-scenes buzz creation service that allows advertisers to pay to have the blogosphere post about whatever it is they wish to have posted.
Keep your eyes on this one folks, it’s going to get a LOT bigger moving forward.
I try not to opine on Microsoft products for the most part because I always end up getting some flack for my seemingly negative take on the company, but being a pretty big iPod fan I think I’ll comment on the new Zune release.
Microsoft once again, in my opinion of course, is doing too little too late in its move to compete with Apple. Is it just me or has Microsoft completely lost its ability to use originality in creating new products for the tech industry?
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Apple iTunes recently announced the release of iTunes 7, the latest version of its highly popular media file management software.
This release is really quite incredible in my opinion. I’ve been an iTunes user for about a year and a half now, and I’ve since removed MusicMatch Jukebox and several other programs that are completely useless now that I have the Apple application handling all of my music and video files.
What is the new version all about? Well, I’ll give you the lowdown as I saw it unfold when I updated last night.
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I was posting in this forum looking for translation help. Would you believe that you can get all sorts of languages transalted online but not Malay. It’s a significant country from where I sit, but obviously not from an American or European perspective.
So I found a forum instead and I posted my question about “Help I’m lost” tags for my kids and the admin responded (thanks) but I did notice that he had allowed guests to post. Craziness. However it seems that s/he has coded a nifty little spam stopper and it’s keeping the forum clean. What’s more if you have a phpBB forum you can have it too.
Just incase you need it too, it’s the The Little Malay Dictionary Forum
We all know that Google made a boo boo when they decided they would cave to the demands of China in backing down on the idea that the Internet should be an open and honest source of information for users worldwide, but it’s good to see a giant like Wikipedia rebuking them for their poor choice of actions.
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It’s interesting that legendary kiwi blogger David Farrar has entered the fray with a post on compulsary insurance for home owners but seems to have turned his back on the ill-fated landlords insurance bill that is being steam rollered through.
I have no problem with making insurance compulsary – it’s a fine idea. But it’s really important that the onus is placed on the correct person. (more…)
The debate has raged here about the use of Tasers by the New Zealand Police force.
We’ve had a high profile case of a “good boy” shot dead by police. By all accounts if my son makes the same choices as Stephen Wallace I won’t be singing his praises.
But that doesn’t mean that anyone wanted the young man dead – except perhaps him. Suicide by Cop is a well established concept from our TV screens. (more…)
The scandal about New Zealand right now is that Don Brash appears to have been “playing away”. Personally I couldn’t give a toss except that as the Leader of the Opposition he could be our next Prime Minister.
I don’t like the man, but that’s irrelevant. He was, by all accounts, a very good Governor of the Reserve Bank and a quite able (if invisible and insipid) leader of the National Party.
Some jobs demand more of the people filling them. (more…)
Kiwi Opinions, as you can see, is now Oregon, Auckland, and Beyond!
Your wonderful host has invited me to come and blog here, and I gratefully jumped at the offer.
I’m a 26 year old cross country cyclist who makes his living off the Internet and loves every minute of it. (more…)
I’m a Technorati Junkie and use the blog search almost as much as I use Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Unlike the major search engines, Technorati crawls the web and provides the absolute latest information it can find on your search terms. They also have a feature known as “Top Searches”. I don’t usually click on any of these because for the most part the keywords and search phrases are just not my cup of tea. But this morning I just had to explore one of these “top searches”.
In comes the latest viral marketing scheme, and her name is Lonelygirl15. I decided to explore this keyword because it stuck out and certainly wasn’t of the norm. Usually you’ll see search terms like “9-11”, or “Tom Cruise”, but Lonelygirl15 made the top search list at Technorati? Did some 15 year old end up kidnapped? Is there a new nudie video recorded by a cell phone? What the heck could this be all about?
As it turns out, Lonelygirl15 has been able to obtain a rather large following after she started video logging her daily life using the vlog tool “YouTube”. Basically she sits in front of the camera and rambles on about random stuff that supposedly happens in her life. She talks about life, love, relationships, religion, and sometimes she just sits there and goes “ummmm, hmmmm, yeah,” without contributing anything worthy of being noted as entertaining. In my opinion of course!
