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Peter Vullings's picture
Aug 19th, 2010
Latest Facebook Stats (August 2010)

Following on from last month where we reported the latest Facebook stats for July, here are the Facebook stats for New Zealand, Australia and USA as of today (18 August).
 
One thing that is clear is that older age groups are accounting for a large amount of the growth on Facebook over the past month.  The 50+ age group in New Zealand only accounts for 13% of the total NZ Facebook population, however it has grown by 10% since last month!
 

Peter Vullings's picture
Aug 18th, 2010
USA vs NZ

This is not quite 'hot of the press', but still interesting. I just noticed that Sean Kauppinen of IDEA had posted a link some time ago containing a summary of USA gamer statistics from the ESA (Entertainment Software Association).

 

Peter Vullings's picture
Aug 17th, 2010
New Zealanders play games

You would think, in a digital age such as ours, that collecting and reporting statistics on a population's gaming habits would be simple.  In these days of internet-connected devices you may think data about our games and gaming habits would be streaming to a server somewhere for collection, but alas, that is not the case. Human rights notwithstanding.
 

Peter Vullings's picture
Aug 13th, 2010
On Fridays we faff around

On Fridays we faff around.
 
Following an initiative influenced by enterprising companies such as 3M, Google and Unity technologies, we have implemented a new team initiative called Fridays are For Fun (FAFF).  The term was borrowed from Unity, whose brilliant product (Unity3D) we also use.
 

Peter Vullings's picture
Jul 13th, 2010
Latest Facebook Stats (July 2010)

Total Facebook population

New Zealand on Facebook

  • 1,650,040 total
  • 38% of population (4,369,398 estimated)
  • 50% aged 18-34


 
Australia on Facebook

Peter Vullings's picture
Jul 6th, 2010
Flash working on iPad

Frash, a Flash player for jail-broken iPads, looks promising for Flash aficionados.  Frash is in development by Comex, who introduced the iPad "spirit' jailbreak not long ago.
 

Peter Vullings's picture
Jul 1st, 2010
How to change input element from text to password (solved)

The browser compatibility issues continue.  For some time there has been a problem dynamically changing an input element from text to password (and vice-versa).  In most browsers (Chrome, FireFox included) this is a very simple task:

 

var elem = document.getElementById('myInputBox');
elem.type = 'password';

 

 

In *uhem* Internet Explorer (IE) this will throw an exception, as changing the type attribute directly is not possible.

 

Peter Vullings's picture
Jun 1st, 2010
How to steam-punk your iPad

I came across Temple Bags while searching for a suitable iPad sleeve.  They make a super cool sexy all-leather iPad case.  If you (like me) love the steam-punk genre then this bag is the one for you!
 

 

Peter Vullings's picture
Jun 1st, 2010
Android sales up but still not convinced

Google's Android is on the up.  Different sources over the past month or so have delivered compelling statistics and the message is clear: Android is not to be ignored.
 
From Gartner
link here
World-wide smartphone market share, calculated from sales Q1 2010:

Peter Vullings's picture
May 21st, 2010
American Idol's Casey James a future Top Gear presenter?

 
American Idol's Casey James
Top Gear's James May
'nough said :)