I’ve been playing with Xero’s demo, which is well worth looking at. You land on the dashboard, which has a nice summary of what is going on. What is particularly pleasing though, in true Don’t Make Me Think style, is that you are not just looking at information, but you are being asked to do …
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xtra mail customers are going to Yahoo! mail
The big mail transfer is finally coming… and not before time. Telecom’s somewhat clueless (and expensive) marketers have managed to mangle thing though, for a start using the name “Yahoo!Xtra Bubble” for the new service. Xtra subscribers will get moved to Yahoo Mail (the Beta is great), and will also get Flickr Pro, a 1 …
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Direct Broking versus eTrade – Fees
Fees for trading in NZ stocks seem to be still based on ancient premises – percentage takes and high rates. Here are ASB’s fees – they charge you the same $30 for a $500 or $10,000 transaction. Ditto with Direct Broking, who have a slightly lower ticket clipping rate, but still set the baseline at …
Direct Broking versus eTrade – Home pages
Credit to Direct Broking’s homepage. Very cool form. I do prefer eTrade’s through – for function over form. The pertinent market information is there, and the cursor is waiting for me in the login box, so I can login without resorting to the mouse.
Holy advertising enormity!
What a ridiculous ad format. It doesn’t shrink or otherwise go away either.
Jasons, vianet and Trade Me.
A new beta travel site from Jasons. Interestingly they are targeting Australia and the South Pacific as well as NZ. They have 168 listings for Wellington. Vianet, Trade Me’s Travel partner, has 80. However, Jason’s site only displays 10 results at a time, doesn’t map them at all. The battle is on. My money (and …
Vista for $US66 in China
Smart move by Microsoft – make the price of their software low enough so that the extra cost over a pirated copy is worth the positive feeling by buying a legal copy. It’s still really expensive compared to the average income, but they have to draw a line in the sand at some point. The …
The Australian on AFR.com.au
A good article in the Australian about the debacle that is AFR.com.au. Killer quote from Cheief Executve Michael Gill: “We are not aware of any other product like that, which is why it has been an unusually complex project.” and the response from Mark Day, the journalist: “Unusually complex? Therein lies the problem. The technical …
Facebook, LinkedIn and Second Life…
Sometimes I really have to sit back and wonder at our short memories… Facebook is the new new thing it seems, even though it has been around since 2004 – starting at Harvard and spreading to other Boston and Ivy League universities. I have an ivy league alumni email address, so in theory could have …
Buy Lance T’s!
Rod Drury is “Rod” #1 on Google.co.nz, #5 on Google.com – both very impressive. I’m the number – oh 80 or so – “Lance” in Google.com, but at least I can order a T-Shirt from the most popular Lance site…
pay phones, funny money, income and Telecom
Chicago’s OHare airport is ripping out pay phones and replacing them with power sockets, chairs and counters. Bless them – I’m sick of wandering around (usually american) airports looking for power sockets. Disposable income for “Managers” is largest in Saudi Arabia, small in the USA and generally better in third world countries than first world. …
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On IPOs Xero and BF
To me a successful IPO: is fully subscribed raises the money at a fair price results in a healthy listing Xero was fuly subscribed, BF was not. We shall wait and see whether BF is able to make the second deadline with a meaningful shareholder base. To determine whether the price was fair, we look …
Xero – 92 cents – what does this mean for burger fuel?
not a great record for Xero shares so far, on very thin trading though. Remember they launched at $1.10, but cost IPO investors $1. If you didn’t get any shares at the IPO, and still believe, then now would be a good time. well for a start BFW has not yet managed to raise their …
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Should you use Amazon?
A few comparisons of NZ versus US shopping prices in Sunday’s SST. DVD’s are about the same cost in (I buy mine from Amazon), while a lego toy was half price in NZ. It pays to pick and choose it seems. Generally electronics were much cheaper in the US though. Windows Vista Premium is half …
MISAustralia.com – lousy launch
Good: launching a new site Stupendously Bad: Using AFR.com technology I don’t know where to sart – such a frustrating experience from a new site.. The articles are displayed in flash. You can’t copy, highlight with a mouse as you read, change the size of the reading window or scroll using the mouse button. In …
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