a simple new category on Trade Me., but some pretty serious efforts have gone on behind the scenes to make credits accessible to everyone. Well done Trade Me, Meridian and M-Co. Now the question is whether trade Me dares sell to overseas buyers, where the market is huge….
Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
multiply multiplies
yet another social networking site – Multiply – looks to be encroaching on, mainly, Friendster’s space. They offer more privacy options than facebook and myspace, and a much cleaner more professional look. On Jun 6th Multiply boasted 5m members, up from 4m 2.5 months before, when usage metrics were up over 500% from the year …
When a Razr2 is not a Razr2
Wired has a nice little demonstration of what is wrong with the market structure for mobile telephony in the USA. The four major carriers have each somehow crippled the Razr2. AT&T has high speed data with HSPDA, and the Opera web browser but does not play video on the outside screen. It, along with most …
Remove yourself from love lover and crush calculator txts
It’s strange, but this post on Love Calculator that I wrote months ago consistently gets a few views every day. It even seems to be growing. It seems that our scamming friends are wandering the world. Just this week there have been a comment from the UK (a 14 year old girl) and a ‘contact …
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Sony finally gets it…
Sony really should have owned the digital music layer market – after all they had the orginal walkman, and the mini-disc player was dominant in many geographies. But they lost billions in sales by trying to restrain copying of music through horrendous digital right management which crippled their devices. You couldn’t copy data on to …
Apple transforms an industry
Apple really is transforming an industry – Nokia has unashamedly pre-announced an iPhone clone. That link is complete with video goodness. The more important thing to me is Apple’s ability to change the market structure. Currently there is far too much power with the telcos, and by launching the iPhone Apple has managed to grab …
Scoopit or Shill-it?
The top 2 stories on Scoopit right now are shills – one for ‘inpageads’ (to much text te read, but some sort of ad thing) and another for ‘Tubby‘ (an orange, usable Ferrit killer in its infancy.) It’s a shame. Scoopit had (or perhaps still has) a chance at being the Digg for NZ, but …
Fairfax, Trade Me, BHPB
Three clients this year have all come in with record profits. It’s a symptom of what they are – excellent companies. BHPB made record EBITDA of US$20.1 Billion, and profits of $13.7 billion. Thats on the back of some stellar commodity prices and solid volume increases. Records in Aluminium and Stainless Steel Materials helped things …
IraqSlogger – not a cheap subscription
So I have IraqSlogger on the list of sites that I visit every day or two. It’s a long list, and the Slogger is good for a very quick scan of the news from Iraq, but it has not been that useful. Well – they’ve just announced that they are gong fully subscription-only from Sept …
Bogoievski & Moutter were anti conciliation
via Stuff “In April, Telecom responded to the Government’s proposal to split the company into three businesses operating at arm’s length with a counter-proposal to sell off its copper phone network to a third party or Telecom shareholders taking a stake in the proposed new network company. A Telecom press release described the Government’s proposal …
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Rules for job seekers…
Guy Kawasaki lists 6 tips for responding to Craigslist ads, which would also apply to non-corporate online ads on, say, Trade Me Jobs. Guy’s list is simple: apply fast, use a proper cover letter, respond to the employer’s questions fast, respond to the employers questions well, indeed go above and beyond when responding to those …
AwayPhone: One soluton to mobile roaming costs..
AwayPhone has what seems like a good solution if you are going to travel to a bunch of different countries. It only works for home phones from the USA, UK/Ireland and Canada at the moment, but from there you can roam pretty much anywhere, including Australia and NZ. The Register has a good review. It …
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Bernard Hickey: Blogger
Fairfax NZ Digital chief Bernard Hickey is now blogging, at Show Me the Money. I worked with Bernard at Fairfax when he came across from the Independent Financial Review to run Fairfax Digital. Good guy. Bernard is first and foremost a professional journalist, and is always good for some insights and opinions on what the …
Why Xero exists….
Here’s a review of MYOB on Apple’s Australian store. Now it may have been a shill, but there are still the 101/111 people that “found the review useful”. This has to be the worst software system that I have ever used, how it could be for a mac I’ll never know. Totally scatterbrained layout with …
Mark Weldon’s package
$1.4m per year. Just do it. Sure NZX is tiny compared to other companies and markets, but if we want the NZX to keep improving, and we do, then we need someone of Mark’s quality there. and this is how much you pay for that.
Lance Wiggs 