[SiliconBeach] Re: Generating Traffic to your site

2009-10-11 Thread David Jones
Not my skillset but here is a few things: - What day is the best to send newsletter, announcement, product launch etc I'm not a marketer but Tuesday early AM seems common. Depending on your target GEO's. Never on a friday - How to send out press releases to journalists YMMV but Startupcamp had a

[SiliconBeach] Generating Traffic to your site

2009-10-11 Thread Rex Chung
Hi, Out of some discussion from the few of us at Web Direction last week, we thought it'd be great to share some experience on generating traffic our startup. I'm proposing to have this as a topic to be discussed at Sydney SBdrinks this week. It was interesting to hear that google ads didn't work

[SiliconBeach] Re: SXSW

2009-10-11 Thread Rachel Youens
Hey, There's been some talks on behalf of Mobile Monday/QMCodes' Antony McGregor Dey and my company IPitch with Austrade to do a trade mission to SXSW with discounted rates for badges, assistance with networking etc. but they have responded saying they don't want to hold a second trade mission tha

[SiliconBeach] Re: SXSW

2009-10-11 Thread Elias Bizannes
This is what they've told me: 1) Extremely competitive: 2300 proposals for 350 panels. Voting is done, now the staff and advisory board are reviewing and reviewing ideas. They will be looking at things like the comments made to assess how good the panel is (as we speak) 2) October 19: About 80 ses

[SiliconBeach] Re: More webhosting advice

2009-10-11 Thread Paul Jones
I've definitely managed to use Mercurial on Bluehost's shared hosting before - it can be made to run as a CGI script (see something like http://neuronix.eu/wiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=3) On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Scott Yang wrote: > If you are thinking about exporting your mercur

[SiliconBeach] Re: More webhosting advice

2009-10-11 Thread Sriram Panyam
Scott, Hang on does mercurial running over apache require a seprate process? Arent we talking about mod_python or mod_wsgi handler within the apache config? (that is how i have it running now). Are you referring to mercurial on its own server (which is not really recommended anyway). cheers

[SiliconBeach] Re: More webhosting advice

2009-10-11 Thread Scott Yang
If you are thinking about exporting your mercurial repository via HTTP, then I think you'll have to go with VPS instead of shared hosting, just because of the ability to run processes. Otherwise, I think webfaction is a pretty nice managed shared hosting for your python apps. cheers, Scott On Sa

[SiliconBeach] Re: More webhosting advice

2009-10-11 Thread Sriram Panyam
Hmm Rackspace eh.. Didnt they get acquired by Slicehost? I was thinking about just going with another VPS at the worst case.. Actually I am using my current VPS for all my repositories... but yeah thats putting a damper on my twisted server for now... On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:53 PM, nnet wro

[SiliconBeach] SXSW

2009-10-11 Thread Jason Langenauer
I presume there are others, but I'll put my name out as one of the Aussies heading to SXSW Interactive next year. I'm also spending 5 days in SF before heading to Austin, so hopefully will get the chance to meet some of the "Aussie Mafia" while I'm there. Who else from here will be / is thinking

[SiliconBeach] Re: More webhosting advice

2009-10-11 Thread nnet
We've just moved a 2-3m pv a month site to Rackspace Cloud Sites. The more obvious candidate is the Cloud server version, both are good. Price: good, but better is the ability to grow without hitting limits. You pay for what you use, but we came from a MediaTemple Nitro server ($750US/ mth) and I

[SiliconBeach] Re: Chile Wants Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses, Your Tech Entrepreneurs

2009-10-11 Thread Phil Evans
Thanks for the pointer, Mark. Reading through the comments on this article I noticed a link to the Index of Countries by Economic Freedom. I hadn't heard of it before and just in case you haven't either, the current list is here: http://www.heritage.org/Index/Ranking.aspx With details on Austra