I think they’ve been broken a fair while

The first time anyones told me they are using one of my flickr pics. Awesome, I’m doing my little bit to support Miss Universe.

Its been a while since an update. Everything’s ticking over just fine at home and work. Today I’m at Barcamp Auckland checking out NZ tech scene. Didn’t manage to think of a talk in time though

Good news (if you’re my landlord), I now have a new job here in Auckland, my new city (I think HipHipUK is now about two years old which completes the heading). Ironically, I already wrote about what I thought the most important new area of the internet would be - access, in particular mobile (see Web 3.0 post here). Now I have a job working for an Internet company specializing in mobile applications. Is that what they call ‘the law of positive attraction‘? If so then - ‘I think the next big thing is the end of receeding hairlines that you get when you’re only 24′. Lets see how that stab in the dark plays out.

So, desperate pleas aside, the company is called Sprite Mobile.  I’ll be their Internet Marketing Specialist. What does that involve? Well similar things to those that I did at Spreadshirt, but working purely with one product. This time the company is just 13 people, not 250. So I’ll get plenty of responsibility as one member of a two person (the other guy has also just been hired and surprisingly is German, because why would I want to work with a different nationality for a change marketing team. We’ll be devising a go to market strategy for a new and as yet un-named web portal. I’ve only seen an early demo, and I’ve no idea exactly how many cats I can let leave the safety of the bag, so I’ll say no more. But I think its got plenty of potential, especially in the corporate space which is where I see its key audience being. But I could be wrong, its all up in the air at the moment.

I’m excited because I’ll still get to work with communities and evangelize. I’ll still get to write. I’ll get tons of responsibility. Its not a web 2.0 platform per se. The aim isn’t to flip it to google. We’ll be measured on revenue and not eyeballs. Its a niche area, so will have to be advertised to a niche crowd, which, bottom line means - new skills. Oh and I’ll be able to pay my rent.

As I said before, HipHipUK is now my business blog so they’ll be more posts here about this project, and whatever else is keeping me up at night.

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