Archive for May 2007

Trulia mazing (and a little scary)

Here’s a stunning little visualisation tool that popped up at Where 2.0 recently: animated maps of urban growth. Trulia is an American real estate search engine, but they’ve found some unexpected gold in their property assessor records: they reveal when a property was built, and thus can be used to show maps of development over [...]

Seth Magic

More sage advice from the master.

“Maybe the reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is…
… that you haven’t given them anything else to care about.” – Seth Godin

ProjectX Now Hiring

If you like to learn cool new technologies, if you like to work at a place where you can feel comfortable and above all if you like to design and build application that people actually want to use then we’re interested to hear from you.

We are now hiring for the position of a Software Developer. [...]

W3C says Firefox now 25% of browser market

W3C stats is reporting that Firefox is now has 25% share.
Looking at ZoomIn stats, IE still rules the roost.
Browser stats: 28/05/07

IE 6
50.04%

IE 7
25.28%

Firefox 1.x<t />
3.69%

Firefox 2.x
12.45%

Safari
3.25%

Rest
5.29%

Browser stats: 9/02/07

IE 6
53.00%

IE 7
20.24%

Firefox 1.x<t />
8.62%

Firefox 2.x
11.01%

Safari
4.06%

Rest
3.07%

Browser stats: 5/11/06

IE 6
72.86%

IE 7
3.98%

Firefox 1.x<t />
13.13%

Firefox 2.x
3.66%

Safari
3.88%

Rest
2.49%

City lights

Here’s an interesting image: New Zealand from space at night:

No, it’s not a blank image: if you look carefully, there are actually some spots of light. It really highlights how sparsely we New Zealanders are spread across these long islands.
You can make out more detail by looking at the city level. Here’s Auckland’s broad and [...]