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Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
How to give thanks
Workshop Evaluation for Eric Ries · Confirmation, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Webstock seem to do so much so well. Here’s the simple screen I saw after completing a feedback survey on Monday’s workshop with Eric Ries. The workshop was excellent, and the thank you note was just another item in the long list that made …
Why XT keeps failing
With a minor, I think, outage last night, Telecom’s XT isn’t racking up the best track record. @NealRich is the engineer that put it all together – and to his credit he fessed up to it a FooCamp. I’m a big fan of the XT network when it works – for my iPhone, and so …
Stop spamming me Dopplr
A gentle reminder to everyone that sends out email messages. An unsubscribe link is a link that says “unsubscribe” and links directly to a page that says “thank you for unsubscribing” or “are you sure Y/N?” An unsubscribe link is not “click here to login to your account and change your preferences, which means you …
The Grandmother effect is starting for Facebook
Something I wrote about for Idealog seems to be coming true: Facebook itself will also sink at some stage…. It’s very hard to predict what and when social networks will succeed and fail, but there is probably a simple test to determine the point of failure—and it’s almost certainly related to the date that your …
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Introducing MyTours
Announcing the launch of MyTours – today we have launched our first product on to iTunes. MyTours is a website that lets you load pictures, sound and text to create a tour. It’s great for Museums, local bodies, tour guides and other people that already have their own tours, and also for people that want …
More Sky spam, and another letter
Dear Sky Sports I am writing again. Last time I received your spam we had a great conversation and you promised to make some changes – which you have, and well done. I pointed you towards New Zealand’s Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 and the the handy guide for businesses, and I suggested four actions. Let’s see how …
5 short comments
1: John Key’s speech was not as bad as all that. The consensus around the political bloggers is that he is not doing enough, but I feel that we in NZ are actually doing pretty well (versus other countries) at the moment, and making dramatic changes to the balance of the economy could create wildly …
Quantcast tracks all WordPress.com blog stats
I’ve rather belatedly discovered Quantcast – which tracks a good chunk of the web, but is very US-centric. One thing it does do though is track every WordPress.com hosted blog, including, for what it is worth, mine: There is plenty more there – have a look around and try your favorite site. There are plenty …
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Puffin signals doom for jetpack
NASA seem to have cracked the three crucial problems with jetpacks with their Puffin personal flying machine. The kiwi jetpack is obnoxiously loud, and it, well it doesn’t really fly. It’s also only suitable for smaller folk. The Puffin approach puts the pilot between two stubby wings, is powered by quiet electrical fans and will …
Techday joins the spammers
I received this on Friday from techday.co.nz: I didn’t know I had a relationship with Techday and neither was there an address of the sender included. So I clicked the Unsubscribe link and arrived here: It’s a website that I have never been to before, and I certainly don’t want to login or register. Now …
Incredibly fantastic and great
Missed Steve Jobs and the iPad introduction? Rest assured thanks to Neil Curtis you can catch up on all of the adjectives in under 3 minutes. Found via TUAW, and yes the website of Neil is a bit different.
It’s all about the story – launch progress
Things are going well at AllAboutTheStory.com – the site that matches the material from professional writers with editors who buy their material. While it is still very early days, we are pleased to have over 130 members and about 100 vetted pieces of content. You never know which direction sites will go – and we …
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An open letter to Vodafone Group from New Zealand
Dear Vodafone Group We don’t yet have the Kindle available in New Zealand, and I suspect that you are the folks to talk to. You see I’m pretty sure the folks at Vodafone New Zealand would love us to have the Kindle down here – after all we surely rank ahead of East Timor and …
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It seems BNZ’s Xero personal will allow importing
From this screenshot over on Xero’s blog we see a National Bank account is reported in amongst the BNZ ones in a beta test of Zero Personal: Actually the logo is for Kiwibank, while the text refers to National Bank. Either way Xero and BNZ are telling us that they’d like for external acccounts to …
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