It’s simple. First – Use the giant NYTimes as your blog vehicle, and be part of an existing blog Second- Be a well known and followed writer – Pico Iyer Third – Pick a topic we all love to hate – Airlines and finally – start your blog by telling a bunch of Americans that …
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eBay re-enters Japan
As with New Zealand, eBay failed to make an impact in Japan, and exited the market after Yahoo! established the dominant auction site. (eBay still talks about NZ as an eBay market though, which is pretty amusing) Now eBay and Yahoo! have announced that they are linking forces to give Yahoo! Japan auction members access …
Fairfax Digital – new head
MEDIA RELEASE 6 December 2007 FAIRFAX MEDIA APPOINTS NEW DIGITAL HEAD Fairfax Media has appointed Stephen Smith to the position of Group Head of Digital. Prior to accepting the Fairfax Media position, Stephen headed Vodafone’s media and entertainment operations. Stephen will be responsible for Fairfax Media’s Online division, which includes stuff.co.nz, rugbyheaven.co.nz, and the online …
The mobile web is irrelevant
Deserving of a separate post I think – those mobile browser stats show one important thing: Nobody cares about the web on mobile phones. The top 3 mobile browsers added up to a paltry 0.16% of web traffic, which for most Websites is approximately nothing. Of course if you are Google it’s a lot of …
Why the iPhone matters: Mobile internet that works
It’s simple – just look at the stats. After just 5 months on the US market, the iPhone browser is showing a 0.09% browser traffic share. (and that’s with 2.5G not 2G) Compare that with Windows Mobile devices – rating 0.06% of the market, with about 14 times the number of handsets out there. Why? …
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Online ads over $60bn by 2010
ZenithOptimedia has just made the prediction that global online ad spend will be 11.5% of all media spend in 2010. That’s the average – they reckon online will acccount for over 20% of media spend for Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK, which is already at 15%. However they also predict that most of the …
Wanted: A CTO for our well-funded start-up
My cousin here in Perth is launching his mobile application start-up in earnest, with solid VC funding all but finalised from a group that has a successful track record of delivering mobile start-ups to market. The mobile application itself complete, and it is currently being tweaked offshore for the hundreds of phones out there. Now …
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Kiwi botnet creator – criminal mastermind or bit player?
The WSJ – famed conservative organ – says the following about the Kiwi lad Owen Walker interviewed for his alleged internet deeds: The arrests make good headlines, but will have little real impact. Over the last several years, cyber crime has become organized. Arresting the guy who writes the code or who sent the emails …
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Beat the Christmas rush – buy your Nintendo Wii now!
It seems Wii’s are running out of stores in the US as soon as they arrive, as it appears that the Wii is the Christmas item of choice. Actually that makes sense – at US$250 or so the Wii is not too expensive versus the Xbox and PS3. And let’s face it – everyone loves …
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Bestof eBay: Auctions and Social Networking
Not bad. eBay’s new site let’s you combine with the masses to vote on popular auctions – and thus drive more traffic to those auctions and eBay in general. It seems good on first appearance – there is the obligatory eye-candy – in this case the classic Web 2.0 rounded corners and Digg-like voting buttons …
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Sky UK and Google botch email migration
Looks like Telecom’s xtra debacle of a migration to Yahoo! mail is not alone. News Corp owns an ISP called Sky in the UK, and they are migrating customers to the Google Apps. Well trying to. To start with there’s a 10 page pdf on how to change your POP settings over. Slashdot has more …
Making money from eBay, Apple and Microsoft
Here’s an update on how my US share portfolio is going. Previously I was afraid that the tide was going to turn, and my 43% gain for the calendar year to September would be wiped out. First – Apple, Microsoft and eBay. I sold down 70% of my eBay holding the other week, as I …
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FreeRice: 350m pageviews and at least $320k profit
It appears, from the numerous excellent comments to the FreeRice article, that I made, well, a formula error in counting grains of rice, and it also appears that my estimate of cheapo CPM rates is perhaps, well, far too high. I really should have done a proper spreadsheet rather than use the calculator on OSX. …
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How to manage your company’s online reputation
Over the months I’ve occasionally said one or two negative things about a few companies. Did I say occasionally? Sorry – I meant constantly. Their range of responses has been interesting, and piqued the interest of Bullet PR‘s Nicholas O’Flaherty, who used the BNZ series of rants, along with Mauricio’s Slingshot posts as examples, in …
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The mysterious disappearance of Michael Carney
Michael Carney is a marketer that sends out an occasional newsletter to the community. It’s quite good (the last one even quoted my father :-). Michael is a influential guy on the NZ scene – he even wrote an excellent book on Trade Me. I do recommend that you subscribe t0 the newsletter if you …
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