As Mauricio Freitas points out Yahoo!xtra has a page up for a sneak preview, but with nothing showing just yet. I noticed one other thing- the url: http://au.docs.yahoo.com/xtra/ and the copyright message at the bottom, which is “© 2007 Yahoo! Australia & NZ Pty Limited. From this can we (over-)read that NZ is being run …
Category Archives: Internet Business
Apple TV
Interesting speculation on the AppleTV product by Cringley. I feel he is stretching a bit, but it is entertaining watching the self generated buzz the Apple seems to effortlessly create. Here’s a nice rebuttal…
Vista promo video
Geekzone and Microsoft NZ are runing a competition for Kiwi’s to create a video on “what you like most about using Microsoft Vista”. Here’s an idea – what about running another competition in parallel – “What you like most about using OSX” and judge responses not just on the quality of the submission, including production …
The Vibe of Vista and Apple…
Interesting wandering around the electronic shops in London today – several had Vista promotions going on, with laptops loaded with a demo. I ran it and while the graphics were slick it was really un-interactive, and had a annoying voice-over. Suffice to say there was not a lot of excitement generated by the Vista launch …
Game over for Online Real Estate
People in New Zealand looking at real estate sites online spend 73% of that time on Trade Me Property (incl Trade Me Flatmates). That’s a staggeringly high percentage of traffic, and indeed Trade Me Property has been leading the way for some time. To work this out I took Domestic Unique Browsers x UB Frequency …
ego surfing and SEO
A couple of days back I added my name to the subtitle of this blog- and the result was fast. This website is now the top link when I egosurf, whereas a few days back it was languishing at about #20 in the results.
Lies and online dating….
“about 20 percent of online daters admit to deception. If you ask them how many other people are lying, however–an interviewing tactic that probably gets closer to the truth–that number jumps to 90 percent.” So quotes an interesting Scientific American article on online dating. (via here) My experience was that people do lie, though I …
Yahoo! Pipes
Rowan started this one – here’s this blog’s RSS feed in French, courtesy of the new coolness – Yahoo! Pipes. It helps that I’m in France and so can of course completely understand all of the perfectly translated output. (What’s with the French thing today – first Fronde, now this….) You can even subscribe to …
Synergy is now Fronde
I understand the need for Synergy to change their name – Synergy is a pretty generic word and in use by companies is pretty much every other country. Fronde is a French word meaning Sling, and the revolutionaries that are described using the word were, how do I put this, strongly anti-government…. Here’s a nice …
Wal*mart video downloads
Couldn’t say it better. Wal*Mart have managed to get all the movie studios on board, which is great news for the movie download industry. Unfortunately the product is expensive, DRM’d, low quality and Windoze/IE only. Still – it’s a step forward, and if the RIAA and MPAA listen to Steve Jobs, then maybe we’ll have …
Microsoft, Privacy and Kiwi Police
Very interesting situation where Microsoft refused to deal with a police request because they are “a foreign company and not subject to NZ laws”. What terrible PR. And what hogwash. NZ privacy laws are a lot stronger than the US laws, especially when it comes to trading information between businesses. But when the NZ Police …
Wikipedia and Kiwi Foo Camp
Fun little discussion on Wikipedia about whether the Kiwi Foo Camp wiki page is spam or not. The questions are around whether or not the page is promotional, and whether or not you would expect to see it in an encyclopedia.
eBay listings fall in some categories
Interesting eBay UK has seen some category’s weekly listings fall year on year, sometimes dramatically. Good summary here, which refers to this, who got it from the Bear Stearns eBay report. The biggest falls were in media – DVD’s and music seeing 15% and 26% drops – hence the recent price changes. Even eBay.com saw …
Yellowlife
Yellow pages launched Yellowlife, which will spam you with advertisers junk if you register big life events with them. (marriage etc.). Sorry – it’s a tool to help you plan big events. It’s a good idea in principle, and it is good to see a new site laucnhed. I do have three issues though… 1: …
Telecom post Theresa
So Theresa finally retires from Telecom NZ. finally. But sadly not until June. She is proud that there has been ‘almost no involuntary turnover in the top 100 in Telecom’ and is ‘proud of culture of Telecom’. I wouldn’t be. Sure it was a tough hand-over – inheriting under investment in infrastructure, and antediluvian CDMA …
Lance Wiggs 