Traveling the world for 365 295 days
GPS: Last known location: on 3/11/2010 2:05 am
Currently about 11,000 ft above sea level in Boliva. Climbing to 16,000+ over the next few days. 2 days ago
Just kidding, but I was lucky enough to have my name published in a few newspapers across Canada. Last week I was contacted by the Canadian Press to give my 2-cents on Apple’s new iPhone and its availability in Canada. We chatted for about 20 minutes and as far as I know the article was picked up by The Globe and Mail, Victoria Times Colonist and CTV.ca.
Oh, the power of blogging. Glad to know that someone from the Canadian Press reads the blog.
[tags]Apple, iPhone, Canada, Blogging[/tags]
On Wednesday of last week I wrote a post on the Apple iPhone and its availability in Canada. On Wednesday afternoon the post was “dugg” to the front-page of Digg and received approximately 8500 visitors with over 10,000 pageviews. Thanks to GoDaddy for hanging in there and keeping my website online during the increased traffic. So what’s the problem with being “Dugg”? Digg users travel in swarms. On average they don’t check more than one page, they don’t click ads, they rarely comment on the article and don’t come back. The best thing to come out of being “Dugg” is the link love from other blogs and increased Google juice.
It’s amazing to see how quickly a properly optimized post can move up the Google food chain. I carefully selected the post title keywords “iPhone”, “Canadian” and “Availability”. Currently the post is #1 on Google Canada for the search term “iPhone Availability” and #2 for “iPhone Canada”. Google is still calculating incoming links for the post but I can already see the traffic rolling in from these search queries.
Digg on!
[tags]Digg, iPhone, Apple, Canada, Blogging, Wiseman[/tags]
It has been just over two months since I took the dive and purchased my first Apple computer. What can I say other than I absolutely love every single little thing about it! The operating system, front row, my mighty mouse and widescreen display. All this powerful performance packaged in a sleek silver casing.
Most importantly, I’m thankful for all of the sweet little Mac apps from the Apple online community. I just recently came across a couple apps that allow me to sync up Google services with my desktop. Google Reader Notifier by troelsbay.eu keeps me connected with my Google Reader account by informing me whenever new items arrive. Pair this up with the Google Notifier app by Google and you have your entire Google services (Gmail, Google Calandar, Google Reader) at your fingertips.
[tags]Apple, Google, OSX, GMail, Mac, Wiseman[/tags]