I really hadn’t looked at the scam that is love calculator. Google ads are still displaying for these fraudsters. Juha has the full run down. Step one: click on a google ad (still displaying!) Step 2: enter your name, mobile number and star sign Step 3: enter a code that was txt’d to you. “Your …
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On March 1 xtraMSN split to form Yahoo!xtra and msn.co.nz. Let’s track the results using Netratings data. (Alexa does not have anything interesting, and I do not have Hitwise data) The old Xtramsn site is now 1 page, which lets you choose between yahoo!xtra and msn. Neither of those new sites are yet tracked by …
What is it with Western Union? Their service is used by almost every scammer, be it on eBay, spam emails, and now, nannying sites. It seems that they could do us all a favour and tighten up on their tracking and id requirements. Scoopit!
Just announced: 2006 US online advertising hit $16.8bn, showing a 34% growth rate over 2005. That compares to NZ’s $65m and 48% growth. One way to compare is by population – USA online ad spend was US$56 per person, and NZ online ad spend was $NZ$15.80 or US$10.80 per person. That US number equates NZ$81.60 …
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eBay Homepages vary by geography – as Auctions is a fairly geographically and culturally constrained business. Still, it is interesting to see just how dramatic the differences are: Best homepage – the simplest by far, is Canada. The page is approaching Google simplicity, and it is abundantly clear what you have to do – enter …
Disintermediate a Nobel Prize winning business and lend money to villagers around the world directly. There does not seem to be a revenue model for investors (i.e. the loans do not pay interest), and obviously there are verification costs, but it’s an interesting start – Kiva.org Even without a revenue model for investors there has …
Warren Buffet talks about the decline of newspapers in his latest missive. Some chilling words from the great investor. The money quote “Eventually, though, eroding fundamentals will overwhelm managerial brilliance“ The History “..when two or more papers existed in a major city (which was almost universally the case a century ago), the one that pulled …
Geekzone’s news feed seems stuck on Feb 27th… Hopefully they’ll fix this soon because it is a pretty good resource otherwise, though the signal/noise ratio can be a bit low.. Scoopit!
There are lots of ways of measuring how popular a website is. The industry started with ‘hits’, before realising that a page could generate countless hits. The local industry moved to ‘Unique Visitors’ and, once the number of Unique Visitors exceeded the population of New Zealand, to ‘Unique Browsers’. Many sites and advertisers like using …
eBay Blogs: Who knew. Also available now in the UK, which is how I found it. Right now it is early days, but eBay seems to be tapping into a group of people that are fairly new to writing blogs. Time will tell whether this works or not – I just see lots of opportunities …
So by 138 votes to 124 an audience to a PRWeek ethics debate decided against the motion that ‘PRs have a duty to tell the truth’. 3 comments. Firstly there is a great discussion about this at blogHerald and Strumpette (great blog name) Secondly – PRWeek just isn’t great at PR. I cannot actually see …
Whoever they are they managed to beat heavily advertised Ferrit into ‘2nd biggest retailer‘ spot. It’s not much of a spot – after all Trade Me has about 100% of the retail pageviews. (or 197.1m out of 198.5m total retail for ‘total traffic’ week ending 25 Feb, 2007) From the article ” Trade Me has …
From what I see (from the page sources) it appears that msn.co.nz is measuring traffic using Nielsen NetRatings, but that Yahoo!xtra is not. (I may be wrong). This will make things very “interesting” for Yahoo!xtra advertising sales teams. Corporate Yahoo! may not realize that the advertisers in NZ demand tracking from NetRatings, and the locals …
Jama weighs in on Xtra mail. Xtra didn’t integrate their ISP mail with Yahoo! mail, which is terrible for consumers, but the logical move for a monopoly seeking to slow its demise. If Xtra members were switched to Yahoo!, then even less would hold them to Xtra as an ISP. Given Xtra’s terrible performance at …
MSN’s offering is woeful. The search is embarrassingly unusable and takes you off-site, the site itself looks like it was slapped together at midnight last night and the lack of advertising makes you feel like there is no local team nor reason for existence. About the only thing that MSN did well was getting their …
Lance Wiggs 