TVNZ ondemand launched and is covered on GeekZone Forums and by Mauricio. The streaming via a flash player works on my mac, albeit with very low framerate. I even watched a minute or two of Piha Rescue (not a show I watch, and nor are any of the others which are local shows only) in …
Category Archives: Internet Business
Fairfax Digital
I’ve just been appointed Acting Head of Fairfax Digital, (Stuff), which will last until a full time appointment is announced. You’ll continue to see posts on NZ online media on this blog, but as I am now an insider at Fairfax, as well as Trade Me, I’ll be very circumspect in commenting about both institutions. …
92% of 2006 US ad spend went to 4 companies
Apparently Marketscape research released at the Online Publisher Forum in London, and reported on Online spin, said that 92% of the US spend in 2006 went to the “big four”: Google, Yahoo!, MSN and AOL. In New Zealand things are very different – with MSN arriving at the party early with xtra, Google arriving very …
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Six digital marketing articles…
Online Spin is a site I’ve just found via Max Kalehoff at AttentionMax. This excellent article points to “six columns digital marketers must read”. Author Max (of the main and six other articles) summarises the articles, but for the impatient here they are: Are Advertisers Suffering From Addiction? Media Specialists Must Grasp Consumer-Generated Media Ten …
eBay Standard Browsers include Safari
Someone gets it – eBay’s recommended browser types are IE 6 or later, Firefox 1.5 or later and, bless them, Safari 2 or later. Safari is the standard browser on the Mac, and an increasing number of people use Macs. Moreover those Mac people tend to be early adopters and (sooner or later) evangelists. If …
Gapminder – awesome stats viewer
While some articles concentrated on the inventors not getting the benefits, to me the best part about Google’s purchase of Gapminder’s Trendalyzer is that we all get to benefit. Just check it out – Track life expectancy versus GDP per capita over time by pressing the play button… Scoopit!
Netguide and Hitwise awards – are they bunk?
Netguide are running their annual awards voting. Liv mention this in her new blog – so I’ve dragged out this partially written piece…. As Liv mentions, this year Netguide want voters to register for some dodgy website (Netguide Village – not linked) that you probably have no interest whatsoever in joining. So Netguide’s business model …
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Private Equity and Telecom Yellow Pages
Check out a thoughtful post by Mark Clare on the Valuecruncher blog. He points out that Private Equity firms are able to raise debt (borrow money) at much lower interest rates than other potential Yellow Pages purchasers (such as Telstra, whose shareholders demand more return than low interest rates). By plonking a huge amount of …
Living Large
Olivia from Trade Me has started blogging – at Liv Large. Expect some interesting stuff as Liv has not only been at Trade Me for a long time, but she is also the person at Trade Me responsible for buying and selling advertising. There is lots of growth coming down the pipeline for online advertising …
Ferrit – 2 unsubstantiated rumours….
Last night in the pub I heard from someone, who overheard someone else saying: 1: Ferrit offered discounts to Telecom staff in the pre-Christmas period 2: Ferrit is now asking retailers to discount certain products and are picking up the tab In the style of Wonkette I’m just passing on these scurrilous rumours… but would …
Read this if you are in advertising or media…
The Digital outlook report is a bit over-produced, but there is some very good stuff in there. (It isn’t exactly easy to view on the internet – unless, ahem, you have a 30 inch monitor) Some of it is obvious, some irrelevant to NZ, but there is much there to read and discuss. Guy Kawasaki’s …
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Scoopit – fair and balanced?
Why does this promotional post get rated in the Scoopit rankings when this promotional post already exists? (I previously did this related post) Moreover – count the votes on the Scoopits – this has 9 votes, but 6 voters. This has 6 votes, and 3 voters. Clearly Scoop members (e.g. althecat, graeme, scooper) get two …
Your house is already on the market
via economist blog via trendwatching: “Finnish real estate site Igglo lets potential buyers ‘pre-order’ houses that aren’t on the market. Igglo has photographed every building in Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, and combines these photographs with satellite images and maps. Every property is listed, not just those that are currently on the market. (Their …
eBay aussie give Tax Office seller records
Via Tamebay – the ATO is getting data on sellers with over OZ$50,000 in sales, affecting an estimated 1000 sellers who should be GST registered. eBay handed over records from 2003 to 2006. Here in NZ the threshold for GST is lower at $40,000 worth of purchases, and I expect there will be plenty of …
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Paymex paygo paypal paywhatever
The battle for payments in NZ is on. Or is it? We have a plethora of wannabe players, but nobody seems to get it. Paypal doesn’t care – after all eBay isn’t around and why support Trade Me? Pago is just woefully bureaucratically crippled, and they can’t spell Paymex looks ok, but who the heck …
Lance Wiggs 