Interesting speculation on the AppleTV product by Cringley. I feel he is stretching a bit, but it is entertaining watching the self generated buzz the Apple seems to effortlessly create. Here’s a nice rebuttal…
Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
Vista promo video
Geekzone and Microsoft NZ are runing a competition for Kiwi’s to create a video on “what you like most about using Microsoft Vista”. Here’s an idea – what about running another competition in parallel – “What you like most about using OSX” and judge responses not just on the quality of the submission, including production …
London vs DC airport transport
London. Tube to Paddington station, up and down one flight of stairs and onto the Heathr0w Express. A walk for about 800m and then the check-in counter. No queue for check-in, no squabbles about bag weight, fast -tracked through security and then a range of excellent shops. A quick pop-in to the Virgin lounge and …
VDay
From the ever-amusing xkcd
YATMW
Yet another Trade Me Wannabe – someone that does not understand internet economics. Sorry – the auctions space is gone. But good basic auction advice on their press release regardless.
The Vibe of Vista and Apple…
Interesting wandering around the electronic shops in London today – several had Vista promotions going on, with laptops loaded with a demo. I ran it and while the graphics were slick it was really un-interactive, and had a annoying voice-over. Suffice to say there was not a lot of excitement generated by the Vista launch …
On London
It’s only been a year since I was here last, but several things struck me as I wandered around London today. Mayor Ken Livingston has been transformational – bike lanes, and traffic congestion charges make for less pollution, while Trafalgar Square is vastly improved. The section of road in front of the national gallery was …
eBay Classifieds
better late than never…. Trade Me has been successfuly hosting classifieds for a few years now…
Waiting room TV
Great ideas are obvious in retrospect – and this is a doozy. Health TV will show targeted health programing to people waiting in doctors waiting rooms. With an average wait of 20 minutes that’s an opportunity to hit an audience with some juicy advertisements along with that content. Sadly for HealthTV’s international prospects this isn’t …
txtstation signs a great deal
Interesting deal that Kiwi company txtstation has made in the USA. They are working with Fox TV and the NBA on mobile-interactive TV, allowing Americans to answer questions posed on the small screen. While the USA is well behind in TXTs (and well ahead in mobile email), I wonder whether the success of American Idol, …
Trade Me purchase is paying off…
Fairfax’s purchase of Trade Me* is paying dividends – at least in the headlines of competitors APN’s NZ Herald: “Fairfax stagnating but Trade Me making progress”
Game over for Online Real Estate
People in New Zealand looking at real estate sites online spend 73% of that time on Trade Me Property (incl Trade Me Flatmates). That’s a staggeringly high percentage of traffic, and indeed Trade Me Property has been leading the way for some time. To work this out I took Domestic Unique Browsers x UB Frequency …
Dragon’s Den VC
So Bob Jones reneged on his Dragon’s Den deals – surprise surprise. The companies hopefully understood that the investment was the least they would gain – the publicity and the possibility of a genuine investor (of which Coleman seems to be one) being attracted via that publicity were the real benefit. Meanwhile we may now …
Living in NZ
So nice to live in a liberal country where a politician marrying his boyfriend (civil union) is essentially non-news…. On the downside, professional incomes are very low – here is a job requiring an MBA that pays just $75,000, or USD$51,000. (It’s nice that Trade Me Jobs shows the salary – it really helps identify …
ego surfing and SEO
A couple of days back I added my name to the subtitle of this blog- and the result was fast. This website is now the top link when I egosurf, whereas a few days back it was languishing at about #20 in the results.
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