Just did a “google vanity search” on myself and found to my surprise that my site is at number two in the search results. (Some guy from Copenhagen is beating me…)
Obviously, I am not the most well known Olof Olsson out there! (Believe it or not, but both Olof and Olsson are extremely common names in my home country Sweden.) It seems that Google is ranking me high due the key words (olof olsson) matching my domain name (olofolsson.com). Given that my site is fairly new and almost no one links to me, I can see no other explanation.
From a personal branding perspective, this obviously means that having your site name the same as your name makes a lot of sense. Go out and register your kids names before they are taken! (I have already done this.) They will thank you when they get older. You are extremely unlikely to find only the first name or last name being available, at least for .com and other global domains, however first name + last name combinations are surprisingly easy to get your hands on.
Good news for us at TelstraClear yesterday. We won the Best ISP award at the NetGuide People’s Choice Web Awards! It feels especially great as the award is voted on by the New Zealand ISP users, our customers.
We also launched our new Clearnet website. We have been working hard on it for a couple of months now, so it is a great feeling that it has actually launched. However, this is not the end of the road for it, there is more coming. Check it out!
Great news today that the iPhone is coming to New Zealand soon! Vodafone announced that they will start offering the iPhone in 10 markets, including New Zealand, later this year.
However, the press assumes that the iPhone will be exclusive to Vodafone NZ. This might not be the case however… I would not be surprised if Telecom NZ will also offer the iPhone. Vodafone Italy has a non-exclusive deal, the same may be true for NZ…
TelstraClear launched its Warpspeed broadband service today. It is the fastest residential broadband service clocking in at 25 Mbits/s downstream and 2Mbits/s upstream.
25 Mbits/s may not sound that much better than the 24 Mbits/s offered by ADSL2+ based services. But it is! And here’s why:
In other words, Warpspeed is actually 66-150% faster than ADSL2+ based services (when averaged for subscribers 0-4 kilometers from the exchange).
The upstream is also superior at 2Mbits/s. The ADSL2+ upstream speed peaks at about 1Mbits/s, and again it is distance dependent.
