a telling comment from Rod Drury: I also noticed that iPhone behavior changes once you move from the carrier network to wifi. Almost everywhere we stopped there was free wifi. As soon as the iPhone user had free wifi then the iPhone was out and being used in conversation. When I travel in the USA …
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eBay blows cash on TV Ads that are 20 seconds old
eBay UK is placing ads on TV that feature listings with prices that are 20 seconds old. That’s some pretty cute technology, which requires slick systems from end to end. Now the media companies have a system that can deliver ads that quickly, it’s a short leap to designing, creating and placing ads that are …
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FastConnect: Phone, electricty, gas and internet connections
Reading through some of the top 50 blogs. I found, on StevePavlina, this little snippet from a review on a book called “Life on Purpose”. The book seems far too religious for my taste, and the review a bit wordy, but I did like the first bullet that Steve quoted: 1. Become Incredibly Selfish. This …
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Why the Wii is outselling the rest..
Via BoingBoing
50 most influential bloggers..
No kiwis on the list, but NorthXEast provides an excellent summary of who is who in the blogging world. The interesting thing to me is the number and rank of professional blogging companies and people on the list. Also news to me – Engadget and Gizmodo were started by the same guy. I guess The …
Google video ads
Forget preroll, and postroll – the new new thing is Google’s idea of semi transparent ads over the top of the bottom fifth of video. It may even have legs on TV – as we all move to control our own TV watching through time shifting. Frankly this may be the only hope for TV, …
yet another iPhone unlock…
…but this time it is free. We are very close to a free bulletproof simple graphical way to unlock iPhones. Thank goodness – as Apple seems to be ignoring the most basic of rules – give the people what they want.
eBay shakes the model, but still doesn’t get it
eBay is still figuring out this auction thing. For a start, all eBay neutral feedbacks are now counted as negative, as from a couple of weeks back. If big sellers start getting a bad karma ratio, then the amount of stuff they can post to sell will be restricted. They’ve also been playing with the …
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Travel Bug soft launch (Trade Me Travel)
Here at last. Trade Me have soft-launched Travel Bug. Simple, elegant and it just works. But still some weirdness with underlining in Safari. Interestingly TravelBug uses Google Maps rather than Smaps – at least for now. It’s obviously a version 1, and we can certainly expect more goodness to come down the line. Go ahead …
Was Telecom right? Introducing Google Yellow Pages (or not)
Was Telecom smart to sell Yellow pages? Here was I thinking they had given up on the online market of that empire, but perhaps they just recognised that giving up was the right thing to do, as Google was coming to town. Here’s what I received just now into my Yahoo!Mail, but there is a …
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psst… want to go to Yale?
You can – with Yale eLine. Via iTunes.Yale.edu
new iPod goodness
be sure to check you the new iPod goodness, and update your presentation skills by watching Steve’s latest missive.. While I’m not really enamored with the idea of paying for ringtones, I do like the price drops in the iPhone and the new nano with super hi res screen looks great. But then again – …
Carbon credits
a simple new category on Trade Me., but some pretty serious efforts have gone on behind the scenes to make credits accessible to everyone. Well done Trade Me, Meridian and M-Co. Now the question is whether trade Me dares sell to overseas buyers, where the market is huge….
multiply multiplies
yet another social networking site – Multiply – looks to be encroaching on, mainly, Friendster’s space. They offer more privacy options than facebook and myspace, and a much cleaner more professional look. On Jun 6th Multiply boasted 5m members, up from 4m 2.5 months before, when usage metrics were up over 500% from the year …
Remove yourself from love lover and crush calculator txts
It’s strange, but this post on Love Calculator that I wrote months ago consistently gets a few views every day. It even seems to be growing. It seems that our scamming friends are wandering the world. Just this week there have been a comment from the UK (a 14 year old girl) and a ‘contact …
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Lance Wiggs 