I’d love to get into the numbers in the recent changes to eBay, but it is too hard on this iPhone. But regardless, here are my top 10 suggestions for change at eBay: 1: allow google checkout and integrate it. It will provide a clean payment system (unlike paypal) and will force paypal to get …
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TheWest’s new site – Got a Scoop?
My “personal jury” is still out on TheWest’s new website design. It’s a website aimed at big screens and broadband connections – this is a screenshot of the site above the fold on my MacBook Air. The main picture/story is huge, and rotates through four stories, the rest of the screen is dedicated to a …
Leading the design process
We are going through the Lingopal design process at the moment for various products (J2ME, Website etc.). It’s all heating up as launch approaches. This is the worst nightmare result – design by committee: (via Slashdot’s new idle.slashdot.org) Above all the video demonstrates what happens when you have lots of people inputting and yet no …
iTunes: Enough said. Microsoft lost the battle
“Enough said. Microsoft lost the battle in the consumer entertainment media space.: That’s Mauricio Freitas – Microsoft MVP and fan – in response to iTunes offering videos in New Zealand and Australia. There’s a critical flaw however. iTunes got big through usability, but most importantly because it made it easy to transfer your CD’s to …
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Internet while flying should be free, like everywhere else.
Great news – Delta is going to offer WiFi on all domestic (USA) flights. Not so smart – sadly they see it as a revenue opportunity rather than a service, and will charge ($10 for up to 3h flights, $14 for longer flights) for it. I find it amusing that upmarket hotels typically charge (a …
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iinet – If this is the best the rest are cr-appalling
I’m moving my stuff and internet around the block here in Fremantle, and so of course I’ll make sure the internet service is provided by iinet – who have been excellent an seem to get it and even read my blog. Well – not so fast -they have some work to do. More to the …
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Digicell – getting bigger and bigger by helping people
Digicell is cleaning up – earning dollars by targeting poor countries with their mobile phone services, and earning kudos for liberating their populations from inefficient and often corrupt Governments and incumbents. Owner Denis O’Brien’s motto (via Forbes): Give phones to the masses and they’ll fight your enemies for you. I wish they’d invade Australia and …
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Are you a criminal? Bush and Clinton are….
It used to be hard, but now anyone can find out if anyone is a criminal. At least in the USA. Criminal Searches has made it easy. This stuff has been online for a while, but CS is the first ad supported, free to search model. I checked, and it seems that I am clean. …
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Ye Olde Search Engines
For those with long internet memories – here’s what those old search engines looked like back in the day. Here’s a taste – Google in 1998. It’s amazing how even then they didn’t quite get to the completely barren screen. And Yahoo! back when the 96 elections where it. I recall watching the election (Clinton …
Internet still reigns as the cheapest ad dollar spend
It’s the big one – the one that moves industries, creates new ones and destroys old ones. Just how much time are people spending on the internet versus other forms of media? You see when the news finally hits that people are switching off TV, newspapers and magazines and switching on to the internet full …
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Four more factoids from the NZ Internet Report
At the bottom of the Wolrd Internet Project – NZ Report are some nice cross tab charts. I find these interesting not just for the internet data, but also for some of the other insights. 1: Wealthier people spend more time with their family, Pakeha spend the least time with family, Males (self reported remember!) …
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Top ten findings from the Internet In New Zealand 2007 report
The World Internet Project New Zealand report came out. Worth a look as it is part of a great world-wide project, and will hopefully provide great trends going forward.. Sadly the data is old. Really old in internet time. The WIPNZ survey was conducted in September-October 2007. Why does it take 8 months to analyse …
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Lingopal – the latest
We are getting there at Lingopal, the start-up that my cousin is running Perth. We seem to have gelled around this logo for now, while we are running at full pace on website and application developent. Expect more soon…
Is Cuil the new Google?
Cuil.com is apparently the new new thing in search engines. They claim to scan more pages than Google, and they present their results in a lovely, though heavy, format. In addition to looking at the popularity of a Web page, Cuil also analyzes the concepts on the page and their relationships — grouping similar results …
Ferrit beaten by who? Torpedo7, that’s who
Nielsen Net Ratings latest press release shows that shopping wannabe Ferrit was third in the online shopping traffic rankings behind 1-day.co.nz. At 2.96% of the weekly unique browsers of Trade Me, and still offering a bunch of shopping categories, Ferrit continues to be irrelevant. Second placed (but still tiny) 1-day is interesting – they specialize …
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