I had a small part to play in helping secure the venue for this year’s WordPress party at SXSW 2012. I won’t be able to attend in person, but I’m glad that I could contribute to the the WordPress community in a small way 🙂
Check out the link for the full story.
A set of photos from our recent holiday to Melbourne. What a great time we had, especially with little Zack in tow 🙂
Thanks Joanie and Gavin for putting us up, we miss you guys!
Great profile by Gizmodo on Instagram, every iPhone user’s fave social photo sharing service
There are a mere ten employees at Instagram—only eight of whom are even in the US. Yet in the past year and change it has racked up more than 15 million users, who have uploaded some 500 million photos. The service has pulled in $7.5 million in investments, including money from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. It’s already available in ten different languages, and, having already scored a hit stateside, is piling on users in China, Brazil, and throughout Europe. All this without having a Web interface. All this while only being available on the iPhone. And all this while iterating and scaling and building out the back end like a company that commands an army of developers. It doesn’t.
Erna Mahyuni doesn’t mince words in her column on The Malaysian Insider about the proposed Computing Professionals Bill.
The Computing Professionals Bill 2011 was drafted by clueless people. That is the only conclusion I can make after reading MOSTI’s press statement in response to the backlash from the local tech community, and what the Bill’s “champions” have to say.
For the record, I think the bill is too vague and misguided to make a difference and agree with the opinion of the tech community that it will do more harm than good. The stated goal of the Bill (to raise the quality of IT professionals and practitioners in Malaysia) can and should be achieved by different means like better SLAs and accountability for high value IT projects.
I wrote a guest post for my friend Mei at the CC Food Travel blog:
I grew up with the web and technology. I spend all day on the internet tweeting, blogging and checking in on Foursquare. When traveling, I like to be able to do the same.
Dubrovnik Restaurant (owned by Dina, who is my friend and a client) is running a contest with a fun prize – if you win, they will throw you and 14 of your friends an all expenses paid party at their lovely restaurant. Check it out!
I had the privilege of helping Sue Lynn migrate her blog from Blogger to WordPress. Go check it out 🙂
ProBlogger.net published my guest post today. Guess that officially makes me a professional blogger 😀
From David S Hall:
I know why you have monopoly profits in one business, use them to *destroy* other businesses, dominate the newest business (smartphones) and still whine like little whiny bitches.
Great rant and an awesome read. For background, see Techcrunch.
I’m David a.k.a. the blogjunkie. This is my personal blog where I let my hair down. I’m an entrepreneur making a living from the internet, without the scammy get rich quick, make money online methods. I’m an Apple fanboy, and WordPress geek.
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