Hard to Argue with This…
New Zealand is the best place on earth. I agree.
Readers of London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper have voted New Zealand as their favourite place on earth, for the second year in a row.
More than 25,000 readers were polled in Britain’s biggest survey of travel habits and the results were announced at the eighth Telegraph Travel Awards reception at the Royal Opera House in London.
Hip & Zen Blog
Worker Bees have a cool new blog – Hip & Zen. Nice job Elisa…
The Next Big Thing
"What are you doing?" This is about one of the most popular questions I get asked. The simple answer is that I continue to manage a portfolio of interests with a real focus on…
The Big Deal…
A month or so ago I decided to join a really exciting start-up here in the Valley as chief marketing officer. LogLogic is to systems data what Google is to the web. We capture 100% of log data from any device – networking, storage, server, application (industry or homegrown) – and enable it to be stored, reported and alerted on. Unlike homegrown log management or niche security event managment solutions, we’re enterprise-class (think scaleable; thousands of devices, 50,000 messages per second, 10,000+ reports…) and arrive in your data center in an easy to install appliance. Think 10 minute install, 10 seconds to reporting. I’m having a blast and we’re growing like cazy. (and yes, I know we need a new web site, RSS, a blog and all that good stuff…)
Alongside that I’m also working away on:
The Lark Group…
… continues to flourish. I’m still leading it as we operate in stealth mode (if there is such a thing). What is interesting is our clients are more non-tech enterprises (manufacturing), travel, financial services and consumer companies. They appear to be embracing blogging and other participatory technologies at a really fast rate. We have a range of commercial blog projects underway that will debut over the next year – of of which are really, really exciting.
No. 8 Ventures….
I continue to be a director of N0. 8 ventures, New Zealand’s leading venture capital firm focused on technology and bio-tech. We’re weil into our second fund and participating in great companies such as Esphion, Argent, SurveyLab and VCU. I love the time get to spend here and also the companies I get to spend it with. Thanks to Jenny for her support, mentoring and insights…
… and if that wasn’t enough…
I’m chairperson of the New Zealand Trade & Enterprise’s US technology beachhead. And I write for Corante as often as I can. And I’m trying to be a great dad to my gorgeous little buddy, Sophia…
Worth a read…
AlwaysOn has a terrific piece with Chris Anderson on the Long Tail…
New Apple Blog…
Tom at Infoworld has a new Mac blog, looks like something I will definitely read:
"everything related to Apple that is of interest to grown-ups with jobs"
