Apple, at the same time as the new iLife launch, launched a very overdue upgrade to the dot mac product. I sent some photos from the new iPhoto to a new feature – dot Mac Web Gallery. The process is to select your pictures in iPhoto, and, err, push a button (or click a menu …
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A nice column by Deborah hill Cone on ACP’s decision then reversal of the decision to ban Facebook use by staff. It was an uninformed move as Facebook is quite the weapon for journalists. Deborah also lets slip that NZ Herald also bans Facebook, and no doubt have all sorts of other sites on the …
a telling comment from Rod Drury: I also noticed that iPhone behavior changes once you move from the carrier network to wifi. Almost everywhere we stopped there was free wifi. As soon as the iPhone user had free wifi then the iPhone was out and being used in conversation. When I travel in the USA …
Excellent marketing from Air NZ – who once again demonstrate that there are some very smart people that are being unleashed within their domestic team. Air NZ held a fashion shw in the sky, complete with Rachel Hunter in attendance. Here is one of the eight models strutting one of 30 designer’s ware. Meanwhile America’s …
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Via Celsias – a very cool protest about the over indulgence in advertising. Now I’m not at all for banning advertising a la Sao Paulo, but we all have to remember that public spaces, pages in newspapers and minutes of TV or radio time are public goods. It may make financial sense to add just …
eBay UK is placing ads on TV that feature listings with prices that are 20 seconds old. That’s some pretty cute technology, which requires slick systems from end to end. Now the media companies have a system that can deliver ads that quickly, it’s a short leap to designing, creating and placing ads that are …
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Rowan is starting a series of 10 posts on what made Trade Me great – the Trade Me Manifesto. Should be great reading.
Rather amusingly, the US Foreign Trade Barriers document referred to below also has some tasty things to say about Telecomms in NZ: U.S. industry has expressed concern about the fees charged for completing calls using mobile networks in New Zealand, which are among the highest in the world. That’s a clear statement that Telecom’s under-investment …
Via No Right Turn, I perused a US document that lists NZ policies thast it consiers are trade barriers. Read the full commentary on this amazing document from Joe Hendren. It was astonishing to see the US music industry’s thoughts about NZ copyright law & policy in print: The U.S. music industry opposes a proposed …
Reading through some of the top 50 blogs. I found, on StevePavlina, this little snippet from a review on a book called “Life on Purpose”. The book seems far too religious for my taste, and the review a bit wordy, but I did like the first bullet that Steve quoted: 1. Become Incredibly Selfish. This …
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First check out iphon.fr, for the Haka iPhone combo. Seriously. Then go to Hakatv.fr to roll your own. Cultural sensitivity may be an issue.
No kiwis on the list, but NorthXEast provides an excellent summary of who is who in the blogging world. The interesting thing to me is the number and rank of professional blogging companies and people on the list. Also news to me – Engadget and Gizmodo were started by the same guy. I guess The …
I’m waiting for the tide to turn. My portfolio is growing very nicely this year – at least in USD terms. But I’ve recently got into options… I still steadily hold a collection of longs (EBAY, AAPL, SNE) and shorts (EQR, MSFT), but I moved to replacing some of those shorts with “just out of …
Forget preroll, and postroll – the new new thing is Google’s idea of semi transparent ads over the top of the bottom fifth of video. It may even have legs on TV – as we all move to control our own TV watching through time shifting. Frankly this may be the only hope for TV, …
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