The Government have launched a new campaign that is aimed to bring Kiwis home.
These slogans (see above) are part of a $400,000 advertising campaign being launched by the Government in Australia today aimed at luring expat Kiwis home. [source: New Zealand Herald]
Cake PHP have launched a new version or their PHP framework and one of the snippets was the integration of SimplePie. The install and demo for normal sites is incredibly simple and the code is fully featured but held in a single file. It can even spit out the “subscribe via” links for the major sites.
All in all it appears to be very impressive.
At the v7n forum an enthusiastic programmer decided he wanted to build himself a FSBO website for the UK market. Only he gave his site description and when other forumites came back with warnings that the FSBO market was pretty tough and cornered by the big realtor franchises he obviously had no idea what FSBO stood for!!!
FSBO: For Sale By Owner, usually real estate.
It’s a term that is catching on as the industry grows and while it’s not in common conversation yet if you are planning a business you should at least know the catch phrases of the industry.
Now, I’m as guilty as the next person of throwing up a website and having a go. But if you are planning for this to be more than a hobby, for it to be a proper business then it’s essential to have a written business plan…
I got an email from Jim Messenger today asking me to fix up my Property Investment directory. Well, it needs it, just not for the reasons that Jim was talking about.
Take a look at this!
SEO entrepeneur Mike Dammann has been noticeable by his absense from the online world this month and apparantly his USA residency papers were not what they should have been [source1] [source2].
Now the first rules of illegal immigrants are
Oh, I couldn’t resist the graphic from BizUnlim 🙂
I discovered the concept of Lens a while ago and have recently revisited them at Squidoo. You can see my meagre efforts of exposing
A lens is basically a single page fact sheet. You could have one for every day of your life I guess, or for every topic which interests you. It’s not designed to be a blog, but as a collection I guess there is some cross over.
Squidoo have included the basics of writing articles, lists, including RSS feeds and images. They’ve even found a way to monetise it with revenue sharing.
I just got the latest Quick Business Tips email from Debbie Mayo-Smith and she always includes little hints and tips on email marketing. They’re normally pitched very, very low but Debbie is no fool so I was astounded by this: