At Powerkiwi we have just gone past 40 million units of electricity sold since we launched in February 2009. That’s enough to power 5000 houses for a year, or approaching $9 million worth of power. Our main product is FlowerPower, and over half of our sales are from top-up packs. We also sell a large …
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We’ve sold Groupy to Yellow
Below is the press release about the sale of the Groupy assets to Yellow. In short Yellow brings to Groupy the marketing muscle required to expand throughout NZ, while the core Groupy team will hop over to keep things moving at internet speed. Groupy was founded and led by Scott Kitney along with Andrew Hunt. …
Comparing New Zealand to The United States.
A nice little site neatly sums up many of the reasons why I left the USA to come back home. Sure you can make more money, but pretty much everything else is worse. Add into that the knee-jerk responses since 9-11 that make getting stuff done and moving around oh-so-painful, the general atmosphere of partisan …
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Top eleven for 2011
Let’s have a go at fortune telling – no cookies involved. eBooks will become relatively normal. It will begin to feel a little silly to purchase products that require cutting down trees, chemicals, huge plants, toxic inks and expensive production and shipping. eBooks are cheaper, fast to obtain and just as easy to read, except …
Want to write? Get a $1345 Webstock package
AllAboutTheStory.com is offering a full journalism scholarship to the biggest and best web event in New Zealand – Webstock. Webstock’s cool – and has a host of awesome and famous foreign and local speakers. In their own words: Webstock 2011 will be the mostest bestest scientifically proven amazingest conference ever. In the history of the …
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Quotes from the ACMA business model report
A few choice quotes from the Australia Communications and Media Authority’s “Report 4— Changing business models in the Australian communication and media sectors: Challenges and response strategies” It’s worth reading the report – at least for your industry. “At June 2010, there were approximately 3.5 million mobile broadband services in operation, an increase of 71 …
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The challenge for Fishpond
Here’s Fishpond‘s latest email to me. I like the company a lot, and they are justifiably doing well, but I find it difficult to buy anything from them as I’ve moved increasingly into an electronic world. In September last year I purchased the latest Kindle, which is smaller, faster and a lot lighter than my …
Too much menu NZHerald
Man tries to burn campervan pair – National – NZ Herald News, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. There are menus and then there is this ridiculous half page affair from NZHerald. For people browsing by scrolling down with a touchpad or scrolling mouse the menu bloats out over the article text as the mouse pointer hits …
Lock in a 36% price increase from Mercury Energy
I’m actually shocked that Mercury energy have the cheek to do this scam. They are sending out notices to people (families) offering to lock in electricity prices for the next three years. They also say you could win free power for 3 years: The problem is that people will be signing up for …
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How to be an Angel
This is exactly what Angel investors should be doing No lengthy agonising, no distracting the team with over-indulgent due diligence and no inch thick documents and negotiations through lawyers. Simply find a great idea with a solid team and put the money on the table. My ambition is to raise a fund to do this …
Give prisoners the basics at least
Inmates in 10 prisons in the Georgia, USA coordinated a strike that lasted a week, and inclusive of all of the usually conflicting groups (Bloods, Crips, Muslim brotherhood and so forth). While the article in deathandtaxes raises the point that the mainstream media missed this strike, the, well, striking thing to me is the reasonableness …
Poorly surveyed
I got this email just now, it’s so ugly I thought I’d follow the link to see how bad the survey was. I took the extra time to take pictures and write comments. The landing page as not too bad, except I couldn’t care less about adding to my nano collection, and suspect many …
How readable is your site?
Google has a new readability feature, so why not check a few local sites? Here are some, in decreasing order of ‘Basic’ readabilty. Proving something about left wing academics, tough I am not sure what. Overall very consistent in readability – not too simple, not too hard. Complex matters, again presented consistently. Seems right – …
Crisis explained
I do like this succinct explanation of the Ireland situation.
This is dangerous NZ Police
This is an unsafe act. The police officer appears to be standing in a part of a lane that is closing off while traffic is whizzing by at 80-100kmph. He is behind his bike, which will turn into a projectile if hit by a vehicle that is leaving it just a little late to merge …
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