I’m proud to have scored just 18/50 in the 2006 Stuff Sports Quiz (link will change to weekly quiz). There is so much sport on these days that keeping up would require shelving much of the rest of your life.
Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
Woosh – viable or not?
Woosh made a $24m loss on operating revenue of just $10.4m. Operating revenue (which is net sales) was actually down slightly on the previous year, while EBITDA was $12m. Clearly some interest and depreciation in there, which they say is related to network investment. Despite a claim that it will break even this year, these …
NZHerald – resorting to google ads
The good news is that NZHerald is loading super quickly today. The not so good news for APN is that they are using Google ads instead of more lucrative display ads. I’d be really interested whether they are generating real revenue out of those Google ads, but I suspect not after looking at the advertisers. …
Oldest newspaper moves online
A sign of the times – the world’s oldest newspaper The Post Och Inrikes Tidningar, a Swedish daily list of bankruptcies, governemnt and corporate announcements has moved online. That’s 361 years of tradition turned on it’s head, but the logical move for an announcement-led paper. The online mast-head still states ‘since 1645’.
on counting correctly
Realestate.co.nz state on their homepage that they are “featuring over 75,000 properties”. Actually, if you add up the listings, they have just 71,522. Seek.co.nz state on their homepage that they have “12,242 jobs online”. Actually if you hit the search button they show just 11,836 jobs. Search4jobs.co.nz show 6,586 jobs if you hit the search …
getting directions
wises.co.nz – it would be nice if your website driving direction feature actually worked on New Years Eve – after all lots of people are travelling. Multimap is guilty of being down as well – in fact only (strangely enough) Yellow Pages worked right now, which uses Multimap and does provide weird results. It seems …
how to lose your job
getfiredquickly.com via Stuff. The link provided was the non-functioning http://www.stuff.co.nz/http//www.rateyourbossnz.com.
Yahoo! Personals NZ?
With the coming of Yahoo!xtra to New Zealand, will we see the entry of Yahoo! personals? There is an Australian version already, and it seems a gimme to at least give it a serious try in NZ. The Australian site states that it is a place to find Kiwi’s as well, but there are not …
NZ Shop – update
three new bits of information 1: T’s and C’s for NZShop les through Ferrit states that DVD’s ‘usualy ship 5-10 days’ after order, which implies that NZShop does not hold inventory. Good move. 2: a quick search of the companies.govt.nz website shows that NZShop has been around since 1995, which is pretty cool, and that …
NZHerald Safari woes
My woes with NZHerald and Safari continue. It seems that if the wrong ads are served then the page just will not load. Good ads: Fly Buy’s perfect present generator – Flash, but static Bad ads: Everything else, including “Emirates” flash horror, Rialto Channel, “Big Wednesday”, Ferrit… Even “Velux” – seems to be a static …
Getting the basics right…
In the US the universities led the Internet charge. The same in NZ, afaik. I recall at Massey in the late 80’s, a friend introducing me to the mysteriously cool “internet” and “email”. Sadly, on the surface at least, things have changed for the worse here. One of the most basic tests to assess the …
NZShop economics
Here’s a tilt at NZShop’s financial’s, based on essentially no information. My last order confirmation number from NZShop was over 62000. If this is the total number of orders ever, and the average sales price is $50 (they seem to be all about DVDs), then that’s a total of $3.1m in sales (Say a reasonable …
AeroPress Coffee and Espresso Maker – in NZ
Rather amazingly NZShop.com has the Aeropress Coffee Maker for sale. This is an awesome bit of kit for those who want great coffee every time (including crema), and don’t feel the need to drop $2000 on an Italian machina. Perfect for work if you have lousy coffee there, and of course for home, where I …
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Improving print readership measurement
APN and Fairfax are joining forces to commission a review on the way Print Readership Research is done in New Zealand. They are looking their own requirements, and that of their advertisers, rather than at changing vendors. Good on them. It would be doubly interesting if the review could somehow relate online readership to print …
DCMA and late december bills
It is never a good sign when a proposed NZ law makes Slashdot. At least three bills that are anti-the-individual (banning party pills, controlling resale of event tickets, DCMA NZ style) have been introduced for comments as we all break for the holidays. They all smell of heavy interest group involvement, and it will be …
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