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Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
xtramsn split – the results appear for the first time
We are told in the NZHerald that Yahoo!xtra gets 4-500,000 UB’s a week and 12-14m page impressions. Could we see the source for that information? Yahoo!xtra isn’t on NetRatings and so we have no evidence that this is true? Let’s graph it, and I stress, these figures are not at all comparable – the Yahoo! …
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watch that first big turn
RX7 madness – see what happens when the wheels really do fall off…..
Safari 3.0
Will Xero support Safari? Safari is my favorite browser, and I only pull out Firefox to blog. Well it turns out Safari 3.0 is better, but still doesn’t work correctly on WordPress. Grrrrrr.
Leaving a trail….
A wannabe social networking site releases some research (from the UK’s yougov, who ran some panels), and before you know it the WSJ, NET, and SMH are commenting on the perils of releasing too much information on the net. Apparently job seekers get Googled, and if you have a criminal record or drank too much …
Recent Fairfax developements
I cannot talk about these things much, but…. We at Fairfax signed a deal with TVNZ to use their video content. Stuff had a deal with TV3 that lapsed last year, and of course TV3 is now tied up heavily with msn.co.nz. RugbyHeaven.co.nz will launch soonish, and we managed to bring across Marc Hinton and …
How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with..
Actually that’s a title of an entry of Marc Andreessen‘s new blog. He’s the sort of guy that gets 48,562 pageviews in his first 4.5 days of blogging. I imagine Sam Morgan would get a similar (NZ scaled) response if he started blogging. I agree with Marc’s criteria for hiring good people – (Intelligence,) Drive, …
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Shill bidder cops a $US475,000 fine
It’s good to see eBay fraud dealt with in the USA – though the scale of it boggles the mind. A jewellery company placed an amazing 232,000 ‘shill’ bids on their own auctions in just a year… …and got caught. That’s the problem with committing fraud online – you leave a very easy trail to …
The NZMusic fade to black
It’s sad to see the gradual demise of NZMusic.com – a site that once had a commanding grip on the music scene in New Zealand. Traffic has almost totally dried up over the last two years to just 13% of record UB’s and PI’s. The forum, once the place for musos and fans, has been …
Clinton and Harvard
Watch and Listen [realplayer reqd] The highlight is Clinton’s speech – but the rest is compelling as well.
Maestro and Triplejump – more work required
Rod Drury points us to start ups Maestro and Triplejump. Good to see these new sites up and running – well done… But please – go buy the book “Don’t make me think” and apply the learning to your websites: Let’s start with Maestro: now – quickly. What are you meant to do? What does …
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eCommerce is slow to launch in Australia
Right on cue (after the last post graphically showing the lack of a non-Trade Me eCommerce industry) comes a quote from the head of eBay Australia lamenting the same issue in Australia: eBay Tells Retailers To Focus On Online Operations “Major Australian retailers are falling behind their counterparts in other markets in the area of …
NZ Retail stats: How is Ferrit doing?
I’ve updated the New Zealand Retail site daily stats referred to in a previous post. Once again it is Nielsen NetRatings data, for domestic traffic. First and foremost- Trade Me is still the only online retailer in New Zealand (aside from airlines) Let’s look at that by hours spent on site – this is Unique …
Brass Monkey Pix
A selection of the pictures I’ve uploaded to Flickr Day 1 – a perfect run to Arthur’s pass from Blenheim, via Murchison and some dirt Twilight at the rally site in Central Otago- day 3, after a interlude in Auckland for a meeting via ChCh. It was wet…
Fake Ribena, real Vitamin C
Spotted on the ferry on the way South – fake Ribena, but including real Vitamin C….
Lance Wiggs 