The just released IAB report is showing $57.6m in online advertising spend for 1H 2006. That would imply we will hit well over $120-130m for the 2006 calendar year, once you take natural growth and the Christmas season into account. Indeed the IAB is showing over 20% growth from Q1 to Q2, which would imply$145m …
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Hint: put the price up
When your 10,000 tickets sell out in 19 minutes, it is time to raise your prices. At the very least, Toast Marlborough, bring in some price discrimination so that those who want to pay for not queuing, or for “gold entry”, can do so. You’ve left money on the table.
24% of kiwi’s are creationists..
..and 26% say the Theory of Evolution is not true. I’m stunned. The article also says that 42% of kiwis believe the death penalty is ‘morally acceptable’. I’m doubly stunned. ..of course this survey is subject to the same sampling bias that other surveys are: people at home at night, with a home phone they …
Tomizone cool but too early.
Went to sign up for Tomizone, but their list of routers is – well there are just three. That’s a shame. Otherwise it is awesome, but they need to get the router list up to get critical mass. Wake me up when there are more, and really wake me up when you have the Apple …
The future is Apple
From the Missouri school of Journalism, via Maurico’s linkblog
Fast Broadband is here – in Perth that is
Finally I have broadband again. It took Perth based iiNet about a week to arm-twist Australian monopolist Telstra into connecting me. Their communications and service (24/7 help desk) has been faultless – which is stunning in this industry. iiNet uses ADSL2, and here’s what I get: From me at home in Perth to a local …
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Rugby Hell
Rugby Heaven changed its logo today….
Burma is Myanmar not Burma
It’s one thing to complain about anther country. It’s quite another to call it by the wrong name. The United Nations accepted name for the country between Thailand, Laos, China, India and Bangladesh is Myanmar. Not Burma. Even Wikipedia gets it right – it appears that Myanmar is the formal name, used since the 13th …
It’s all about Gino’s
Next time you are in Fremantle (visiting me for example), make sure to drink lots of coffee, and eat breakfast and dinner at Gino’s cafe. Why? They are the only place in town offering free Wifi internet. The other cafe’s and restaurants have nothing, which is frighteningly archaic for a funky seaside tourist town. Meanwhile …
FT goes free
UK’s Financial Times has set itself free, in a half-baked kind of way. You get ’30 views’ per month, which I suppose is meant to suit bloggers linking to articles, but not much else, such as reading other articles. Not enough for me – I’ll keep them off my list until they get it. Guys …
Elijah’s video
Elijah is 11. He did this at Wellingon’s capitale holiday program. cool
Your brand really doesn’t matter
From tomfishburne, a reminder to all of us not to take brands too seriously. Aside from Apple of course.
Shipbuktu apologises and will refund for slow shipments
This was sent to me by Paul Ryan, and is about to be posted on to Shipbuktu’s website – on the control panel which is registered members only. It’s a pretty impressive response to the customer service issues they have been having, some of which have been reported here. Bolding is mine. Some customers are …
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NZInstitute BB report: Telepresence growth benefits are limited
That’s the second part of the tree on page 7 of the NZ Institute report. It shows total annual benefits of $165-$335m in increased exports from decent broadband allowing better telepresence. Telepresence I guess is defined by the authors as basically video conferencing with big screens and higher resolution. To work it out the authors …
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NZInstitute BB report: Telepresence costs savings are minimal
Let’s start comments on the NZ Institute Broadband report with the top chunk of the slide on Telepresence, which is page 7. It is the first page that shows how the topline number of $2.7-$4.4 billion in economic benefits is built up. I believe the $95m in annual cost savings is far too high. NZ …
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