Ignite Sydney: A Look at Google Trends

My Ignite Sydney talk on Google Trends is now on Youtube. I bluffed a few screens by going off script but I did well with the audience laughing. If only my voice didn't sound so weird.

Ignite is one of the best nights for me as the speakers are always good. Below was my fav from the night and it's pretty much free (I donated $5 at the entrance)

I probably wont be able to do another Ignite talk as they are trying to mix up the speakers and this was my 2nd talk. But I'm trying to convince everyone I know to do one as it's a great experience and the 15 seconds and 20 slides rule makes it easy to stay focussed.

My Google History

I had forgotten I had my Google History turned on and then by chance saw that you can see your "trends". So far I have made 13,559 web searches! That is since April 2007. I'm usually logged into Google for Analytics and Adsense so this is a pretty good estimate on my web traffic.

I find it funny that my top queries 5 are vanity searches. Searches for projects I'm involved in. The Anne Avantie is Ervi searching for a dress designer while logged in as me. Yes in the one day she racked up a top 3 search term that beats my others which had 2 years worth. Crazy

Most search activity is on Sunday. Which is usually the say I do searching for Sleevage.

I would like to see a benchmark to see if I'm under or over the average searches.

Aussie Dollar Kicking ASS

We're almost at 90c USD for the humble Aussie dollar. It's like Amazon is having a 15% off sale just for Australians. Everything is so cheap now especially camera gear and DVD's which you can pick up at discounted prizes now.

Rob reminds me of when he visited the US back in 2001 and our dollar was worth 49c USD. It was half price Australia.

Subway Cancels Stamps!!!

Seems fraud is the cause for Subway to cancel it's stamp cards.

I'm going to cash in my remaining cards right away. And if Australia hasn't cancelled them I'm buying all mind on ebay now! haha eat that you "by the book bitch" manager at Broadway Subway :)