One week and a million views old, but worth watching Blendtec‘s iPhone youtube video. They do these to sell blenders, and as advertising campaigns go it is incredibly cheap CPM.
Category Archives: Internet Business
Twitter is suffering, and the scammers don’t help
Are Spammers killing Twitter? Despite constant upgrading, Twitter is more often down than up. Spammers like this one don’t help – “she” was following over 1000 people when she started following me. “She” has just one entry. It links to a scam website that sells the concept of Water as a power source for your …
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Vodafone and data warehousing: A translation of that abstract
<cynic mode firmly switched on, with apologies to Rachel> Via Mauricio, it seems from this, that Vodafone are using data warehousing techniques to drive customer retention. I’ve had a go at interpreting the abstract of “The Customer Retention Journey at Vodafone New Zealand” below. Speaker Rachel Harrison is the Vodafone Lead Analyst who is giving …
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Excellent Samsung viral campaign
I was surprised to hear about my togs stealing exploits – but kudos to Samsung and their agencies for an excellent campaign.I received a link to a fake NZ news site…. Cleverly my details are inserted into the video, along with the name or the perpetrator that dobbed me in. It all links back to …
Telcos: stay out of the content game
Via Stuff, and the SMH, a headline that seemingly spells bad news for the iPhone in Australia: “iPhone not so multimedia friendly in Aust” The article goes on to say that the iPhone is unable to play many of the Telco giants mobile offerings, such as Vodafone Live, Telstra’s Big Pond TV or Optus’ ringtones …
The IRD’s SME website
A great thing. The IRD is going to set up a website to guide SME’s through their tax obligations at various stages of the business. They are outsourcing the work, and it will worringly include a bunch of Flash as part of the “interactive tool”. We can hope that it doesn’t turn into another Mission-on. …
Mission On is…Off
So I read Bernard’s eviseration of the Mission-on Website, and the debacle of spending over $10m on a useless flash monstrosity. The best part was his daughters quote: “Oh My God,” she yelped. “It’s all in Flash. I just never use Flash sites. You can’t navigate them, they’re usually just so crap. My browser is …
iPhone apps lift the game
It’s a fast moving world when you are developing for the mobile or web. We at Lingopal are in the throes of some fun stuff involving mobile phones and translation, and it was always going to be a nervous time when the iPhone apps launched. Sure enough, there are a few nice looking applications, but …
When money isn’t enough: Getting an iPhone
Michelin play hard to get, and it is the same with Apple. Their iPhone (and let’s face it pretty much all of their products) is so damn good that I simply must have one to satisfy my technolust. Yet by partnering with buffoons like Vodafone NZ, Rogers Telecommunications in Canada and pretty much all of …
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Vodaphone amateur hour
It’s not hard. They had weeks to prepare for the iPhone launch, but still Vodaphone.co.nz’s site still got swamped this morning. Unacceptable. Completly unacceptable. Vodafone.com.au struggled the first time I hit the site this morning, and then seemed to go into mobile mode – which was a clever way of dealing with a slashdotting. A …
How not to launch a political blog: “F$%k you”
NZ Left Wing election site 08Wire launched, it seems with an interesting group of backers and is based overseas. It is good to see new discourse emerge, but I see a couple of issues. First, in the launch article they do their best to turn prospective readers off: Some analysis is sensationalized. Like David “cut-and-paste / …
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Telstra and Optus iPhone prices released: ouch
Looks like all the prices are coming out from today. 1: they are expensive to buy prepay: $800 odd 2: Telstra will launch with the others on July 11 3: Data prices are horrific Optus Contract You can get an 8GB free if you sign up for 2 years on a $79 per month plan. …
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eBay is selling lovers
Googling for “lover” I noticed that eBay had taken out an adwords ad: Clicking through (gee – had they started an online dating service?), I found an interesting array of… nothing in particular. So – freshen up those ad-words eBay. You may ask why I was searching for “Lover” – I was trying to get …
Great mousetrap, lousy website
These guys (Turtlepac) make petrol and inflation bags. The products seem to be very high quality, and come recommended by a bunch of people. I’m thinking of getting one to add capacity to my bike. It’s a shame that the website is so unusable. Every product page is akin to a paper catalogue – nothing …
Apple is cool, but their partners are not
Apple does everything they can to make dealing with them a great experience. But they are let down by the little things, and by some pretty big things. The little things I’ve talked about before. The big things are more serious. Their partners suck. Vodaphone, Vodafone (that’s how you spell it in Australia and Optus …
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