A while back I blogged about Giapo, the Queen Street, Auckland gelateria run by the amazing Gianpaolo Grazioi. The title of that blog post was “It’s about the Gelato, not the brand“, and, well, it seems that these days it is indeed about the Gelato. The post led to a series of comments, and I …
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Deciphering the HP departure and arrival letters
Corporate language has a particular style, often difficult to understand for those outside an organisation. On the surface they can appear fairly banal, but employees, contractors and analysts can extract remarkable amounts of information from them. Let’s take a recent example, the emails sent during the changing of the CEO at HP. HP is sadly …
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10 ways that NBR.co.nz can fix its comments
One would think that The Wall Street Journal comments would be rancid. After all it’s a right wing capitalist newspaper in the bastion of all that is right wing and capitalist. And yes, the comments do skew a certain way. But overall they are not nearly as bad as they could be. The reason are …
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Facebook’s desperate pleas for attention
In August I received this email from Facebook, which was similar to one I received in June: and like others I received this over the weekend – telling me that I has not been to Facebook in the last few days, and that, well, nothing has really happened anyway. There are several things wrong with …
Lingopal イタリア語 – 喋るフレーズブック | おすすめアプリ
[iPhone][iPad] Lingopal イタリア語 – 喋るフレーズブック | おすすめアプリ Appinfo, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Yes – I have no idea what that says either. One of the perils of selling Lingopal apps in 44 languages, and something that’s difficult to solve. Google translate helps of course.
Vizualize Me
I got a beta invite to Vizualize.me today, which maps Linked In data onto a page – a visual resume if you will. Here’s the output (and below). It’s interesting to see it all laid out graphically – for a start I spotted a number of mistakes which I will need to fix. It seems, …
Hey MPAA – so where can we buy Boy online?
Commenter Jonathan Hunt pointed out in the last post that while the MPAA likes to complain about downloading of the movie Boy, he still cannot see it in iTunes 18 months later. He is right, and it seems the MPAA are well out of order. Here’s what I see from the New Zealand iTunes store. …
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The MPAA needs business people not lawyers
There have been suspiciously few (none recorded) notices from the MPAA (or NZFACT) to alleged copyright infringers in New Zealand since the law came into effect this week. Perhaps the tsunami is to come, or maybe they are waiting to pick the perfect case. However no notices issued to ISPs is despite their long-time rhetoric …
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Will the opening match be full?
Official Rugby World Cup 2011 Tickets – Tonga v New Zealand, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I’m seeing a rising sense of excitement for the World Cup – in spite of, it seems, the sponsors best efforts. The streets of Auckland are busier, cars and people are increasingly decked out in team colors and businesses are …
Around Auckland
Doesn’t this building look like a transistor radio? Or an old mobile phone? Real gang members don’t turn up to the Viaduct on Auckland’s waterfront for coffees on a Saturday morning. Therefore these bikes belong to the local accountants, who are, while not being such good riders, considerably more welcome than their brethren. A new …
Giant slingshot meets angry bird
This is the sort of thing that happens when you have a genuine community and groups of kids playing together. It’s a shame about the bird though, which did not survive the experience fully intact.
A field day
It’s been a while, but some of these pictures from NZ’s Field Day bring back memories. One of the first signs we saw as we walked in. The next sign was a little more detailed. The Smartwater tech guys had a simple yet great product, that would display the water level of your tanks. I …
Being in denial
One of the most common traps in early stage businesses, or even people with ideas, is underestimating your competition. Clearbooks seems in clear denial about their competition, and is also, as a UK company, opening themselves up for challenge under their fair trading law. For the record Xero, which I use, has many of the …
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