The BNZ please just pay my rent saga continues Now they are asking me to sign up for the stupid security card (which I had done 2 dats prior) and to send a confirmation fax to get this particular payment through. Nope. International faxes are just too hard these days. I don’t even plug my landline …
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BNZ doesn’t get it. Time to change banks
I’m renting a place here in Fremantle for 3-4 months, and my first rental payment is due. I dutifully (ok a few days late as we had not sorted out dates) send a Telegraphic Transfer request via BNZ’s internet banking email system. This is something I do quite a lot, with the last one being …
Know all of Trade Me’s secrets – and get paid for it
Want to get deep inside Trade Me’s engine to understand how it works? Then apply for Trade Me’s Manager – Strategy and Analytics role, and you will know all. Well – you’ll be exposed to the data fire hose anyway, and you’ll use any insights you find to help grow Trade Me. This was the …
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Is WordPress in play?
PaidContent seems to think so, though the price WordPress reportedly will command ($150-300m) seems cheap for what is the dominant platform for serious bloggers.
Expedia.co.nz launches – Good or Bad?
Expedia – the world’s largest travel agent, and a site I used a lot, err, last century, has finally arrived in New Zealand. Here’s a quick review. That’s a mere 11 years after being founded by Microsoft in 1996 – nice to know we are important. It’s a classic case of the big boys discounting …
eBay results – up and down
eBay reported a loss of a huge $936m – due to the recent huge write-down of Skype value. However otherwise theu showed some good signs, and some not so good signs. Good – PayPal made $470m of revenue – up 35% Not so good: Auctions (marketplaces) listings fell 5%, and GMV (the value of stuff …
Xero offline is coming. Later.
Buried (ok not really buried, but towards the end) in a post by Rod Drury -is a hint that perhaps Xero will be available offline next year: Next year we’ll see the introduction of off-line functionality inside the standard browsers, so new scenarios start to open up. ….These clients will access the server based logic …
Leopard is coming on the 26th
From the Apple.com homepage. If you were thinking about upgrading your operating system from, say, XP, now is the hour.
3 reasons why old media is not doomed
A couple opf folk sent me a link to a post on Louis Gray’s blog, link, which shows the relative decline in Alexa ranking of the news websites. Sites that used to be among the top visited sites in all the Web have plummeted, as fickle Web visitors have turned their attention away from the …
Trade Me: one million served
I missed the first time, but it seems Trade Me exceeded 1 miilion listings yesterday, October 13th, according to the TM message board. Right now the site is running at just under 1m, but expect it to steadily grow. Amazing. Meanwhile eBay Australia has just over 1m items for sale located in Australia. Remember that …
10 ways NZ Government can help NZX
There are more tales of companies leaving the NZX, and the question is asked (via a workshop) whether the Government could step in. I really fail to see what more this Government would materially do to solve for a market that is simply too small. Not that there aren’t any possibilities, just that most would …
Why did xtra go Yahoo! and not MSN?
Mauricio wonders why xtra!Yahoo? I guess one might never know the full story on why Telecom New Zealand decided to terminate the partnership between its Xtra ISP and Microsoft’s MSN content provider here in New Zealand, instead running into the open arms of Yahoo7. I guess not – but MSN’s current offering – msn.co.nz – …
Bernard Hickey steps down
Bernard Hickey is resigning from the end of December as Head of Fairfax Digital NZ to spend time with his family. It’s no doubt been a really tough decision to have to make, but the right one for his family. Hopefully you’ll find time to keep blogging Bernard.
Is online ad spend in NZ doubling?
The just released IAB report is showing $57.6m in online advertising spend for 1H 2006. That would imply we will hit well over $120-130m for the 2006 calendar year, once you take natural growth and the Christmas season into account. Indeed the IAB is showing over 20% growth from Q1 to Q2, which would imply$145m …
Tomizone cool but too early.
Went to sign up for Tomizone, but their list of routers is – well there are just three. That’s a shame. Otherwise it is awesome, but they need to get the router list up to get critical mass. Wake me up when there are more, and really wake me up when you have the Apple …
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