I’ve been following go Fug Yourself for a while – a comic look at the paparazzi world and fashion disaster. Today’s effort is priceless. Interestingly from what was a simple blog, go Fug Yourself now seems to be part of Celebuzz – a bunch of celebrity site. This is big business folks – the lowest …
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Trade Me lite is here – for your phone
Go to m.trademe.co.nz – even from your mac (or PC if you really must) browser. It’s simple, stark even and light. A staggering 6.9k home page, versus 292kb for the www home page. Forget about browsing any way but by search. Actually it is a really unfriendly place to just browse for stuff – but …
Fairfax’s WAToday launches – if you can find it
Fairfax’s long- awaited Western Australia site is here. This, and the BrisbaneTimes are important as they show, or do not show, whether a major media company can enter a competitors market by launching an online site. Like say NZ Herald entering Wellington, or Fairfax NZ entering Auckland, or the WSJ entering the UK. This will …
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Finally everywhere
Yes- Apple is finally unleashing the iPhone. No – there is no telco revolution to go with it. Oh well.
Timeexchange: really not the best name
timeexchange.co.nz it seems, as noted already in comments by ACTUS Technology’s President Joe, already exists as timeexchange.net, and he is not happy: Name: Joe P**** Email: ***@******.com Website: http://www.timexchange.net Lance, In reference to your post “A Trade Me Spin off – timeexchange”, I would like to ask you to have it removed or to note …
Apple: What we really need on Monday
It is a sure thing that the iPhone will be updated from Tuesday, and will even be available in a bunch of new countries, including Australia and New Zealand. I know this for sure not just because of the persistent rumours everywhere, but also as I couldn’t even follow Rowan’s advice and buy an iPhone …
The WWDC Apple show – how it got so big
It’s the annual Steve Jobs speech at the WWDC – (Word Wide Developer Conference) on Monday morning US Pacific time. While we wait for the new iPhone, Snow Leopard and a host of other rumours, check out the history of Steve’s “just one more thing..” at his WWDC speeches. That link (do check it out) …
Welcome to the Asylum
AOL has launched a new site downunser – Asylum.com.au It’s aimed at “men”, and so covers such vital news as “world’s sexiest weather girls“, “10 worst tattoos ever” and as they say it: If you’re looking for Weird Legos or elaborate sex toys — we’ve got it. So it’s not the thinking man’s website, and …
A Trade Me Spin off – timeexchange
We are starting to see a few more spin off from Trade Me staff that are launching websites on their own. The first significant start up founded by someone working at Trade Me was Findsomeone which was created by Nigel while he was pulling a day job at Trade Me, and which was then bought …
RugbyHeaven down
Mark Hinton and Duncan Johnstone may have disagreed with the All Black training squad, but their reaction of pulling the plug on Rugby Heaven seems a little ridiculous to me: :-) Or is the power is off in Wellington?
NZX.com relaunches
Up goes NZX.com – a collaboration between Fairfax Digital and NZX. This has been a while in the making, so it is great to see the result. Well done everybody. (still some work to do though – it’s super slow from here in Perth)
BNZ Sucks: Verified by Visa sucks
Nigel from Netconcepts pointed out the ludicrous BNZ “verified by Visa” program, which he encountered recently on a NZ retailer. Netconcepts are a NZ/Wisconsin success story – developing websites among other things from their Auckland base. They know their stuff. Nigel was shocked to see the following appear after entering his credit card details in …
Stuff wins again
Well done Stuffies – winning again at the Netguide awards. Best Home PAge, Best Media site and Supreme Winner – a fantastic haul. Meanwhile Trade Me captured Best Trading Site (shock, horror) and best Real Estate Site. Interestingly Facebook went over the top of Bebo for best social netwokring site. Are Bebo’s days numbered, or …
Microsoft and Yahoo: bugger
Bugger – Microsoft has withdrawn from the Yahoo takeover offer. Microsoft upped the price to $33 per share (from $29 odd), which was a $5 billion increase. Yahoo said “no thanks – we want $37 per share” and so Mirosfot walked away. On Monday, US time, expect: Yahoo’s shares to fall – and pretty far …
Where in the blogosphere is Michael Carney?
Michael has seemingly abandoned the Trade Me success Secrets blog, which was looking to be a really promising place to discuss and see all things Trade Me. He also seems to have left the Grey Group – where he was also writing an interesting blog. If you want to see what an untended blog looks …
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