Typing away merrily, and my foot nudged a leg of the rather ponderous dining room table that I use(d) for a computer desk here in Fremantle. It was like a motorcycle crash in slow motion. The legs crumbled away in turn, 30 inch monitor sliding towards the edge and everything moving at once. Coffee cup …
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Ye Olde Search Engines
For those with long internet memories – here’s what those old search engines looked like back in the day. Here’s a taste – Google in 1998. It’s amazing how even then they didn’t quite get to the completely barren screen. And Yahoo! back when the 96 elections where it. I recall watching the election (Clinton …
Internet still reigns as the cheapest ad dollar spend
It’s the big one – the one that moves industries, creates new ones and destroys old ones. Just how much time are people spending on the internet versus other forms of media? You see when the news finally hits that people are switching off TV, newspapers and magazines and switching on to the internet full …
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Four more factoids from the NZ Internet Report
At the bottom of the Wolrd Internet Project – NZ Report are some nice cross tab charts. I find these interesting not just for the internet data, but also for some of the other insights. 1: Wealthier people spend more time with their family, Pakeha spend the least time with family, Males (self reported remember!) …
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Top ten findings from the Internet In New Zealand 2007 report
The World Internet Project New Zealand report came out. Worth a look as it is part of a great world-wide project, and will hopefully provide great trends going forward.. Sadly the data is old. Really old in internet time. The WIPNZ survey was conducted in September-October 2007. Why does it take 8 months to analyse …
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Lingopal – the latest
We are getting there at Lingopal, the start-up that my cousin is running Perth. We seem to have gelled around this logo for now, while we are running at full pace on website and application developent. Expect more soon…
Is Cuil the new Google?
Cuil.com is apparently the new new thing in search engines. They claim to scan more pages than Google, and they present their results in a lovely, though heavy, format. In addition to looking at the popularity of a Web page, Cuil also analyzes the concepts on the page and their relationships — grouping similar results …
If nobody owns your mortgage note then you are in luck
It seemed like a great idea at the time. Sign folk up to mortgages, sell the mortgages to another financial player who then bundles the mortgage with thousands of others and sells various risk based slices. It failed in three different ways – two of which we know about, but one which is just emerging. …
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Immigration – bring us your masses
I’m reading “Immigrants – your county needs them“, by Philippe LeGrain. Fascinating. I’ve been an advocate of open borders for a long time – and I mean truly open, anyone can live where they like (subject to limitations on criminals and the like). So it seems is Philippe and a host of economists. Turns out …
Portfolio Judgement Day
I was long on Apple when it went up, shorted Citigroup (Citibank) as it went down, and was recovering my portfolio YTD returns to the heights of a month ago. Then came judgement day. Judgement days do come in stock markets, and more often than people think. The SEC changed the rules, and banned naked …
Ferrit beaten by who? Torpedo7, that’s who
Nielsen Net Ratings latest press release shows that shopping wannabe Ferrit was third in the online shopping traffic rankings behind 1-day.co.nz. At 2.96% of the weekly unique browsers of Trade Me, and still offering a bunch of shopping categories, Ferrit continues to be irrelevant. Second placed (but still tiny) 1-day is interesting – they specialize …
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They had to do it: iPhone blending 3G
One week and a million views old, but worth watching Blendtec‘s iPhone youtube video. They do these to sell blenders, and as advertising campaigns go it is incredibly cheap CPM.
Twitter is suffering, and the scammers don’t help
Are Spammers killing Twitter? Despite constant upgrading, Twitter is more often down than up. Spammers like this one don’t help – “she” was following over 1000 people when she started following me. “She” has just one entry. It links to a scam website that sells the concept of Water as a power source for your …
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iPhone and wordpress
well the iPhone is not exactly the simplest mobile platform, but I expect and hope that a wordpress app will arrive soon. Wroten on my iPhone which luckily corrects almost all of the typos made pm the silly little keyboard.
Vodafone and data warehousing: A translation of that abstract
<cynic mode firmly switched on, with apologies to Rachel> Via Mauricio, it seems from this, that Vodafone are using data warehousing techniques to drive customer retention. I’ve had a go at interpreting the abstract of “The Customer Retention Journey at Vodafone New Zealand” below. Speaker Rachel Harrison is the Vodafone Lead Analyst who is giving …
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