I’ve rather belatedly discovered Quantcast – which tracks a good chunk of the web, but is very US-centric. One thing it does do though is track every WordPress.com hosted blog, including, for what it is worth, mine: There is plenty more there – have a look around and try your favorite site. There are plenty …
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NASA seem to have cracked the three crucial problems with jetpacks with their Puffin personal flying machine. The kiwi jetpack is obnoxiously loud, and it, well it doesn’t really fly. It’s also only suitable for smaller folk. The Puffin approach puts the pilot between two stubby wings, is powered by quiet electrical fans and will …
I received this on Friday from techday.co.nz: I didn’t know I had a relationship with Techday and neither was there an address of the sender included. So I clicked the Unsubscribe link and arrived here: It’s a website that I have never been to before, and I certainly don’t want to login or register. Now …
Missed Steve Jobs and the iPad introduction? Rest assured thanks to Neil Curtis you can catch up on all of the adjectives in under 3 minutes. Found via TUAW, and yes the website of Neil is a bit different.
Things are going well at AllAboutTheStory.com – the site that matches the material from professional writers with editors who buy their material. While it is still very early days, we are pleased to have over 130 members and about 100 vetted pieces of content. You never know which direction sites will go – and we …
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Dear Vodafone Group We don’t yet have the Kindle available in New Zealand, and I suspect that you are the folks to talk to. You see I’m pretty sure the folks at Vodafone New Zealand would love us to have the Kindle down here – after all we surely rank ahead of East Timor and …
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From this screenshot over on Xero’s blog we see a National Bank account is reported in amongst the BNZ ones in a beta test of Zero Personal: Actually the logo is for Kiwibank, while the text refers to National Bank. Either way Xero and BNZ are telling us that they’d like for external acccounts to …
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I received several copies of this email from Apple, and clearly there is a disconnect between my idea of appropriate Valentines day gifting behaviour and Apple’s: I understand flowers, I understand dinner, and even a small gift, but isn’t a $349 iPod Touch raising the bar just a little too far? It’s also not going …
Lance Wiggs 