We’ve just sent out this press release. Pacific Fibre is a big deal – and we have a lot of work to do! Check out PacificFibre.net and follow us: Twitter.com/PacificFibre. Press release: Thursday 11 March, 2010 New Zealand businessmen propose project to build international fibre cable Aim is unlimited high speed broadband for New Zealand …
Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
Theresa’s blogging fodder
It’s sad and essentially irrelevant any more, but the excerpt (not online) from Theresa Gattung’s book printed in Friday’s Business Herald is beautiful blog and commentator fodder. The book emerges this Friday – and it is certain to have more. Gordon Campbell has had a good go, and of course The Standard is not above …
Major changes required
http://www.transport.govt.nz/saferjourneys/Documents/Safer%20Journeys%20First%20Actions.pdf, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I feel sorry for the people at NZTA – when something as simple as changing from a CC restriction to a power/weight restriction requires “major changes” to an IT system. I guess the current system simply states the CC size, whereas the new system will need information on the power …
The case for zero tolerance
A few suggestions on driving emerged from the Safer Journeys first actions paper. While some are controversial – such as raising the minimum age to 16 from 15 – others, like better training for motorcyclists and longer supervised driving periods are good. If we think of being an expert driver is completing the 10,000 hours …
Qantas slowly catches up
Astonishingly Qantas has only now introduced seat selection for Australian domestic flights.Sadly it appears to be avaialble to Gold members (and better) only. Air New Zealand has had this for quite some time.
Failing at Ignite Wellington
Tonight, at similar times around the world, are the O’Reilly Ignite sessions. Wellington is hosting one, and I’m last up after an otherwise impressive line of speakers.(scroll down the homepage to see the speakers and topics) I’ll be speaking on the topic of Failure – and why it is right to set yourself up to …
The Atlantic Redesign
At first I thought The Atlantic redesign was good – they are doing interesting things by putting stories in the tab drop downs. Then I tried to find Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish blog (responsible for a good chunk of the Atlantic’s traffic), and failed – I had to resort to search. On reading the blog …
Portfolio – 2009 results
I last wrote about my US equity portfolio in November, and here are the year-end results. Things have been steady since then – mainly becase the portfolio is almost entirely in cash at the moment. Overall it was a quiet investment year for me in 2009, despite the good results. I went long on Apple, …
Vodafone fails to take advantage of Telecom woes
Good for Vodafone on putting up http://www.vodafone.co.nz/leave-the-xt-network/ to try to take advantage of Telecom’s difficulties, but from there it just goes downhill. I’ve annotated their pages. First up the main promo page is pretty cluttered, and I have to say I am really unsure what the offer actually is. It seems Vodafone wants me to …
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Credit to Telecom, but a lot of work to do
Telecom has its XT and 111 woes, and the knives are being wielded across all media. Of course we in the blogosphere got our knives bloodied back in last year, and it just feels a bit sick to see the carnage now. So let’s be nice and give credit to Telecom for three things: For …
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Power supply is up – what will your prices do?
<shameless plug> Via Radio New Zealand we hear positive noises about the supply of electicity this winter: New Zealand’s third largest state power company believes the country will avoid a winter power shortage this year. ..The company (Mighty River Power) says a 130 megawatt geothermal plant being commissioned near Taupo will, on its own, exceed …
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Want to start a new company? We need developers and designers
I’m in search of designers and developers to work on a specific project. It’s going to be in competition with an existing site, so we are keeping the industry under the radar for now. Market The market is one that provides a service or product to businesses in Australia and New Zealand. There is a …
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The perils of customer reviews
Apple sent through a promotion email the other day – pitching the new version of We are the World. There was though, a problem when I clicked through: “Their heart is in the right place but this song is terrible.” “This new version, borne out of hubris and greed, features Auto Tune and rappers going …
A clever pricing approach for growing companies
Spreedly operates a service to make the process of selling subscriptions easy, and they are themselves, it seems, very good at locking in customers. One example is the Spreedly Kickstart offer, where they capture revenue and lock in early customers by asking for a large payment up front to lock in lower ongoing costs. The …
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Wotif launches Wotflight – let’s test it out
Wotif have launched a new site – Wotflight. It only applies only to Australian flights for now, but it is certainly worth a look. I like the simple approach, and there are some nice user interface elements. Looks great doesn’t it? Clearly there has been a good designer involved. I went ahead and tried to …
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