useless – if you are not in NZ that is: wonder what the site is for? why is advertising material only licensed for NZ??
Category Archives: Internet Business
Free Rice: Addictive, but is it a scam?
Addictive. Very addictive – I’ve managed to donate 1830 ‘grains of rice through the UN to help end world hunger’. However I’ve only managed to get to level 44 – and then only once. There are 50 levels. Here’s the deal. Each time you get an answer right, 10 grains of rice are donated through …
Yahoo Finance New Zealand
Not what you’d expect… au.finance.yahoo.com/investing directs you to Yahoo!7’s Australian focused Finance site, but changing that “au” to an “nz” yields a different result: nz.finance.yahoo.com/investing Not so useful, unless you live or invest in Brasil
10 Questions to Xero’s Rod Drury
Rod kindly offered to answer some questions about Xero during this earnings release phase, so here they are. My questions are in Bold, Rod’s answers in Italics. Rod notes that we are trying to be as open as possible so I’ll try to give you as much info as I can and explain where we …
AFR will not go free, BusinessSpectator launches
Fantastic news – AFR.com.au has redone it’s moronic pricing scheme, which charged readers (whoever they are) anywhere from $25 to a staggering $150 a MONTH. Rest assurred – they have now come back to reality and are charging just $109 for non subscribers, and $45 for subscribers. That compares favorably with the WSJ.com site, which …
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BNZ: Owning customers on and offline
During my sagas with BNZ I’ve been struck at how unfailingly polite and efficient the BNZ Customer Service Representitives (CSR’s) have been. They may be dealing with obsolescence on their screens, but at least they are nice with it. They. That’s an issue, and an issue that commenter Keith Tan pointed out also happens with …
BNZ – it gets worse for all of us
My own personal BNZ Sucks saga continues, but there is worse news, via a response to my internal emails: From April 2008, all Internet Banking customers will be required to use NetGuard when logging into Internet Banking. I applied for my damnable Netguard card on the 21st of October (which I blogged about in passing), …
Redirecting to google.com
Seen on this long thread – a way to stop Google automatically redirecting from Google.com to Google.com.a or Google.co.nz or Google.xxx. This happens to me in Perth when I use Safari 3, but not Firefox. Simply use google.com/ncr Google search results are weighted differently depending upon which url you use.
Tokelau connects everybody
Tokelau’s three atolls have no airport nor harbour and are two days sailing away from Samoa and just two years ago its 1100 Polynesians looked and sounded like they were in another time and space in the past. Now they have free broadband Tokelau is, of course, still part of NZ. It’s a great story. …
Stuff eases past NZHerald
Stuff finally has more domestic browsers than NZHerald – it’s been a long chase, and kudos to the editorial and development teams at Fairfax for the result. Both sites are winners here however – the number of people reading their news online has steadily risen over the years, and the competition has made for better …
Is the froth back? Pubs and social networking
Via Micropersuasion: The endless dot-com parties are back. So are the countless trade shows/conferences that regurgitate the same “new paradigms” the last 10 events did – with no end in sight. And yes, the ridiculous BS press releases are flying into my Gmail box. This is why I don’t speak at or attend very many …
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Gannett and Tribune hook up
Metromix is a series of local sites based around newspapers – run by US newspaper/TV outfit Gannett, who publish 90 newspapers, including USA Today. Gannett is worth just under $14 billion, including debt, Tribune about a billion less. Tribune owns a few dailies – including the LA Times. So why is this interesting? Well Gannett, …
Microsoft Profit up, but Vista sales declining?
Interesting snipet from Slashdot (home of the Mcrosoft vs Apple vs *nix wars) Microsoft is not directly mentioning Vista demand while they brag about how much money they made last quarter, because sales fell. “[Microsoft] shipped approximately 28 million copies of Vista in the latest quarter ended September, or 9.3 million copies per month. I …
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Leopard. The Install in pictures.
Well my cunning plan of having Leopard sent to me failed – it didn’t show up in time before the goods inward at work closed on Friday, and so I went out and purchased another copy at 6:20pm on that night. All is not lost – my parents will now be the proud owners of …
Telecom’s $1.4 billion investment
It’s great news. Score plus one for Paul Reynolds, who is making all the right moves as he embarks on the Telecom turnaround. I’m running on the promised ADSL2+ here in Perth, and it is fast enough for most purposes, with an upgrade path to 20 MB per second ahead for TCNZ. Sadly – that …
Lance Wiggs 