Speedy Kiwi…
Ok, so Kiwis are a slow moving nocturnal bird…. Not this Kiwi though:
Ian Wright has a car that blows away a Ferrari 360 Spider and a Porsche Carrera GT in drag races, and whose 0-to-60 acceleration time ranks it among the fastest production autos in the world. In fact, it’s second only to the French-made Bugatti Veyron, a 1,000-horsepower, 16-cylinder beast that hits 60 mph half a second faster and goes for $1.25 million.
The key difference? The Bugatti gets eight miles per gallon. Wright’s car? It runs off an electric battery.
Wright, a 50-year-old entrepreneur from New Zealand, thinks his electric car, the X1, can soon be made into a small-production roadster that car fanatics and weekend warriors will happily take home for about $100,000 – a quarter ton of batteries included. He has even launched a startup, called Wrightspeed, to custom-make and sell the cars.
Ian, if you need a test driver, I’m in Silicon Valley as well… 🙂
Share Your Feeds
I’m often asked for what RSS feeds I subscribe to – this normally results in me sharing my OPML file. It’s really easy to export it from NetNewsWire. Steve has a good overview of this in a post this morning so I’ll let you read that.
Like Steve, I agree there is going to be lots happening in the coming year in relation to sharing RSS feeds – including this effort. Putting together an OPML file of feeds for their respective communities is one thing that every marketer should be doing.
I’ll get mine loaded in the next few days.
List of Web 2.0 Lists
Richard has a terrific list of Web 2.0 lists. Some of the lists he covers:
- Ask the eConsultant – seriously impressive list of web 2.0 companies, categorized.
- Web2.0Slides – “a self-running slide show of over 1,400 of the best Web2.0 sites.”
- RSS Vendors
China Sees 60m Bloggers
According to cnet:
China is the world’s second-largest Internet market after the United States with more than 110 million users. A survey by Chinese search engine Baidu.com put the current number of blog, or Web log, sites at 36.82 million which are kept by 16 million people, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
The number of Chinese bloggers is expected to hit 60 million by the end of this year, Xinhua said, quoting a report on China’s media industry by the prestigious Tsinghua University.
Taking Time
One of the side benefits of a good blog reader and sites like popurls is they introduce you to material you might not have bumped into. Some are just good refreshers – like this piece today on Flow. Others flag tips and techniques that are worth remembering or implementing – like this one on time mapping. Articles like this remind me why it is worth taking time each day for a stroll through the blogosphere.
