For those of us behind the times (me in particular) congratulations to Brett and Brad from Calypso on their recent acquisition of Inn the Tropics Hostel in Cairns. Calypso has always one of the most ambient hostels in Australia, if not the world, and I am sure they will turn Inn the Tropics into the same funky environment.

Web 1.0 effectively ended Friday 14 April 2000, when the Nasdaq lost nearly 10% of it’s total value – a total of 37% was lost between March 10 and April 17th. It was the end of the “Internet Bubble” and triple figure PE ratios.

We knew it was coming but here it is today!!

Many of you have been eagerly awaiting (and badgering us) for the release of our XEFEED product. Well here it is in beta at last!

Today I had the privilege of being one of the first to view the new Cardrona Valley Resort by the guys at Benbrae – and there are two things I have to say: “Wow!” and “How did I miss such an opportunity”.

I went through an interesting exercise recently that rammed home a point to me – and it has been further emphasised following our article last month defining what makes a successful web project. The point involves return on investment modelling (ROI).

We are overjoyed to welcome Mat Weir on-board at XSD as this week as lead developer. Mat is heading up the Queenstown crew – with avengance in not just developing but also snow-boarding and judging by my headache on Saturday morning and the fact that James (one of our two resident US imports) had his wheels fall off by 9pm; he is also leading the late night charge.