A brilliant move for Blockbuster – Blockbuster’s business is dying, while Circuit city is in retail – which always has some sort of future. If Blockbuster can raise the money from markets that do not realise their business model is dead, then good on them for exiting a bad situation early. Ignore the rhetoric. The …
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Fairfax Digital Australia and youth publisher LifeLounge have launched a new site: Thevine.com.au, “aimed at 18-29 year olds”. Now like everyone I’d hate to be in a “target market” and I suspect, like “young adult literature”, the real target is somewhat younger, although the design of the site is pretty placid: The surefire killer sign …
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Check out this fascinating series of maps which show how various on and ofline newspapers and the blogosphere cover the world. Interestingly NZ is pretty well covered regardless of the source. more here, and flash version with high res links here
Imagine buying a new iPod, and then a week later new versions are announced – quelle horreur! Rest easy – MacRumors has the Buyers Guide – that lets you know whether the timing is right to to buy your favoured Apple product. This is news as they’ve just switched the iPhone to “Don’t Buy”, due …
After last year’s terrible system that required you to register for some dubious website. Netguide have thankfully chosen to use a simple one page form. You do need to enter an email address and name, and a tech savvy person could game the entries, but overall this is a major improvement. Trade Me is still …
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So you lose a $35 billion deal to a competitor that you have been keeping away from your major customer for years. What do you do? Well if you are Boeing, the customer is the US Government (Airforce), the competitor is Airbus and the product is refueling tankers, then you start a blog. and launch …
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The “new way” of presenting seems to be diffusing pretty rapidly through the high tech/web communities, with some industries having seen the back of death by powerpoint bullets. There isn’t really a “new way” – it’s just that people are beginning to really care about how they present. The “new way” is really just “anything …
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PresentationZen guy Garr Reynolds just linked to a video of himself presenting at Google. As Rowan mentioned he’ll be in Wellington and Auckland for the Webstock Autumn series. Worth a look to see his style – which is very very casual.
iPhones may be sold by Telecom? My head is going to explode. However AT&T is also struggling with a similar customer service reputation to Telecom’s, and so the price a telco pays for selling the iPhone (kickbacks to Apple) is the price you have to pay to be associated with Apple.
Stunning use of the ad-space on hte NYTimes home page. The ad ran for a day only.
Shamelessly copying once again – my Cousin Richard’s first entry on the new Lingopal blog. You can see some of the history of Lingopal… while the future of Lingopal is mobile translation. Faux French Pretending to be foreign in the hope of making one seem more attractive to the opposite sex is not an uncommon …
This is an article written by Charl du Plessis – a buddy of mine from business school in the USA. He is an expat South African, and is writing about the flight of talent from South Africa. They still have not found equilibrium there, whereas in NZ it seems the flow just might begin to …
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Love it or hate it – it’s great to be in a city where folk are brave enough to build something like this. Nice one Infratil. What a great way to arrive into New Zealand.
I popped in to Decisive flow – aka as home of Natalie from Simpleandloveable . How cool is their office! a little bit of Ikea in a cool space goes a long way well done Natalie and team.
I also caught up with a few folk – including Bernard, who is now blogging and vblogging at Interest.co.nz. Here’s a sneak behind the curtain… literally. Bernard writes the scripts himself, then records them in front of a green curtain screen. He can even do this from home if he wants, but this was from …
Lance Wiggs 