A brilliant move for Blockbuster – Blockbuster’s business is dying, while Circuit city is in retail – which always has some sort of future. If Blockbuster can raise the money from markets that do not realise their business model is dead, then good on them for exiting a bad situation early. Ignore the rhetoric. The …
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Fairfax Digital Australia and youth publisher LifeLounge have launched a new site: Thevine.com.au, “aimed at 18-29 year olds”. Now like everyone I’d hate to be in a “target market” and I suspect, like “young adult literature”, the real target is somewhat younger, although the design of the site is pretty placid: The surefire killer sign …
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Check out this fascinating series of maps which show how various on and ofline newspapers and the blogosphere cover the world. Interestingly NZ is pretty well covered regardless of the source. more here, and flash version with high res links here
It’s pretty obvious that a better offer for Yahoo is not out there, as Microsoft has the wonderful combination of being cash-rich and desperate – and can outbid anyone else out there. But Yahoo directors do not want to lay with the lumbering giant. So this week Microsoft first whispered that the offer may be …
After last year’s terrible system that required you to register for some dubious website. Netguide have thankfully chosen to use a simple one page form. You do need to enter an email address and name, and a tech savvy person could game the entries, but overall this is a major improvement. Trade Me is still …
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My US Share portfolio (green) in 2007 was up 63.5% versus the S&P500 index return of 3.53%. A great year, and I did sell down a bit around the peak, which hit 77%. Can I do it again? This year to Friday the 28th of March – I’m up just 12.6%, but the index is …
PresentationZen guy Garr Reynolds just linked to a video of himself presenting at Google. As Rowan mentioned he’ll be in Wellington and Auckland for the Webstock Autumn series. Worth a look to see his style – which is very very casual.
Rod just pointed us to Sharesight – a downunder focused portfolio manager website. The website looks to be yummy goodness – simple to use and so forth. I was initially pretty skeptical though – what use is another portfolio manager when you can do things pretty simply yourself, or with the likes of Yahoo? Yahoo …
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Telecom is launching something – I’m not really sure what it is, but apparently it will be some sort of Business Oriented Internet plan/ISP – where you get bundled internet access, hosting and things like Xero. Business broadband plans will be “slightly differently priced” … I read that as “more expensive”, but gee I’d pay …
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Close. But not close enough to be the 10,000th and thus the first Burkina Faso Mason Training deciding clicker – at DecisiveFlow designed DoSomeGoodNow. I did try on another browser. And another computer. But DoSomeGoodNow was too smart for that – I guess looking at my router’s IP address.
I also caught up with a few folk – including Bernard, who is now blogging and vblogging at Interest.co.nz. Here’s a sneak behind the curtain… literally. Bernard writes the scripts himself, then records them in front of a green curtain screen. He can even do this from home if he wants, but this was from …
Not that I have it yet, but Xobni is a very cool add-on to Outlook that gives you handy things like threaded conversations and stats for everyone you communicate with. What a great idea! Their premise is that we have all created far more MB of information through our email than through our web presence. …
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Natalie at SimpleandLoveable laments the passing of a great service into a lousy one – after a shoddy website redesign by DigitalMax. Now I briefly used DigitalMax two or so years back, so I went to the DigitalMax site to see how bad it now is. Let’s start with the homepage, an ask the age-old …
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With the most elite network – connected through business relationships – linked in has incredible potential. That potential has drifted somewhat recently as the competition (namely Facebook) moved well ahead. Well – finally a redesign, and a move to some web 2.0 slickness, making, for example, it much easier to upload a profile photo. But …
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