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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Vodafone fails to take advantage of Telecom woes
Good for Vodafone on putting up www.vodafone.co.nz/leave-the-xt-network/ to try to take advantage of Telecom’s difficulties, but from there it just goes downhill. I’ve annotated their pages. First up the main promo page is pretty cluttered, and I have to say … Continue reading
Credit to Telecom, but a lot of work to do
Telecom has its XT and 111 woes, and the knives are being wielded across all media. Of course we in the blogosphere got our knives bloodied back in last year, and it just feels a bit sick to see the … Continue reading
Power supply is up – what will your prices do?
<shameless plug> Via Radio New Zealand we hear positive noises about the supply of electicity this winter: New Zealand’s third largest state power company believes the country will avoid a winter power shortage this year. ..The company (Mighty River Power) … Continue reading
Want to start a new company? We need developers and designers
I’m in search of designers and developers to work on a specific project. It’s going to be in competition with an existing site, so we are keeping the industry under the radar for now. Market The market is one that … Continue reading
The perils of customer reviews
Apple sent through a promotion email the other day – pitching the new version of We are the World. There was though, a problem when I clicked through: “Their heart is in the right place but this song is terrible.“ … Continue reading
A clever pricing approach for growing companies
Spreedly operates a service to make the process of selling subscriptions easy, and they are themselves, it seems, very good at locking in customers. One example is the Spreedly Kickstart offer, where they capture revenue and lock in early customers … Continue reading
Wotif launches Wotflight – let’s test it out
Wotif have launched a new site – Wotflight. It only applies only to Australian flights for now, but it is certainly worth a look. I like the simple approach, and there are some nice user interface elements. Looks great doesn’t … Continue reading
The amazing Festo
At Equip Design Integration we like using Festo as a benchmark company. They make pneumatic equipment – beautiful pneumatic equipment: Do check out the Festo US website for more, but for now enjoy the flying penguins. <update – now beneath … Continue reading
How to give thanks
Workshop Evaluation for Eric Ries · Confirmation, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Webstock seem to do so much so well. Here’s the simple screen I saw after completing a feedback survey on Monday’s workshop with Eric Ries. The workshop was excellent, … Continue reading
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Why XT keeps failing
With a minor, I think, outage last night, Telecom’s XT isn’t racking up the best track record. @NealRich is the engineer that put it all together – and to his credit he fessed up to it a FooCamp. I’m a … Continue reading
Stop spamming me Dopplr
A gentle reminder to everyone that sends out email messages. An unsubscribe link is a link that says “unsubscribe” and links directly to a page that says “thank you for unsubscribing” or “are you sure Y/N?” An unsubscribe link is … Continue reading
The Grandmother effect is starting for Facebook
Something I wrote about for Idealog seems to be coming true: Facebook itself will also sink at some stage…. It’s very hard to predict what and when social networks will succeed and fail, but there is probably a simple test … Continue reading
Introducing MyTours
Announcing the launch of MyTours – today we have launched our first product on to iTunes. MyTours is a website that lets you load pictures, sound and text to create a tour. It’s great for Museums, local bodies, tour guides … Continue reading
More Sky spam, and another letter
Dear Sky Sports I am writing again. Last time I received your spam we had a great conversation and you promised to make some changes – which you have, and well done. I pointed you towards New Zealand’s Unsolicited Electronic Messages … Continue reading
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1: John Key’s speech was not as bad as all that. The consensus around the political bloggers is that he is not doing enough, but I feel that we in NZ are actually doing pretty well (versus other countries) at … Continue reading
