When planning my ride up the country I wondered if I should just leave all the gadgets behind me for two months and go cold turkey, but who was I kidding, not anyone who knew me that’s for sure. And so as I ride the length of New Zealand I will be blogging, tweeting and posting videos to YouTube. I may even chip away at the new start-up project that has been keeping me busy for a bit. The thing is, you can.[Read full story]
I may have told you, I am cycling the length of New Zealand. Yeah, cool aye? People do ask me, and quite a lot, “why the hell are you doing that?”. They probably ask me that for a couple of reasons, but mainly because they are use to the sedentary, overweight version of me who in recent history is mostly remembered as “that guy who does stuff with computers”. I also get asked “is it because of John Key’s idea for a cycleway” which is usually followed by “you do know its not built yet?”[Read full story]
If you’ve signed up your business on Made From New Zealand already, this message is for you. If you haven’t: go do it now, and come straight on back….[Read full story]
If you don’t know what I am talking about, Twitter is an emerging social networking phenomenon that lets anyone “tweet” in 140 characters or less their thoughts, opinions or just what they are doing, right at that moment. Anyone can follow your tweets, and you can follow others. By tuning into different people, you get a stream of thoughts and comments steadily flowing through to you, and you can participate in “the stream” by replying to people, or just adding your own thoughts undirected ...[Read full story]
“how do I get my site at the top of the Google search results?” A very popular question that I come across a lot, and something every website owner wants to achieve. Well the good news is that if you follow some pretty basic rules and tips, the search engines will smile upon both you and your site, and you will have great success. Here they are:[Read full story]
