I installed Office Mac, and ignored the warning to shut down other applications – after all it’s a Mac right, so what could go wrong? Well – No right Turn took a turn for the worse: and the astute observer will notice similar but less dramatic issues on the TVNZ article below. I restarted Safari …
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How to launch a start-up: HowCast sets the standard
First – Be ex Google and youTube employees, and arrange a deal with YouTube to split revenue attracted by your range of instructional wikis and videos. Next, attract $8m in first round VC funding, and cut deals with MySpace, Joost and ROO* Be sure to include a community aspect, particularly if there is a way …
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Big Deals: Summary
The Yahoo and Rio Tinto deals have one thing in common, besides being abnormally large. They are both being initiated by new CEO’s where the predecessor has just departed. This makes it seem that they are trying to stamp their own mark on their companies, and that is perhaps true. It is probably likely that …
Big Deals: Microsoft and Yahoo
OK – so I’m almost always picking the bearish side for investments, but this one seems pretty clear. It’s a case of a lousy company buying a lousy company. First let me explain what the implicatons of that are, and secondly lets breifly look at why Microsoft and Yahoo will be a hard combination to …
Rio Branding
Amusingly Rio Tinto’s “internal” branding website is open for all and sundry. I wonder whether this is a symptom of a poor intranet at Rio?
Linux and Windoze – the fight goes on
Entertaining post by a chap on lying games in Windows Vista and Linux. He’s pretty biased, but the fun and bias between the sides is to be had in the comments.
pretty and smart
Indexed strikes again:
AOL Australia launches. Whatever
Apparently it is the third try for AOL to launch in Australia. Here’s the Beta website: It looks a lot like Yahoo7’s website: Can’t really see the point myself – AOL have no lock in downunder so unless the website is associated with a source of traffic then it just seems irrelevant. That’s a shame …
Choose your adventure – DVD
If you have kids you may want to give this a go. The DVD is based on the Choose Your Adventure books, and asks viewers to make decisions – the results of which give 11 different endings. It’s all run by a friend from Washington DC days, who now has a startup in LA called …
Qtrax launches. Yawn again
It appears that QTrax is not available for OSX until March. So irrelevant, so why am I writing about it? Good PR
US Prisons are out of control
So bullets from an article in The Atlantic, (link is to a free site as The Atlantic is behind a paywall) and via No Right Turn. 70% of US prison inmates are illiterate. two thirds didn’t commit a violent crime 60 to 80% have a history of substance abuse black men are 5 times more …
WSJ will not be free, and could even be more expensive
Bad news. Rupert Murdoch has said that wsj.com will ‘greatly expand and improve’, but that fees will still apply for full site access, and may even go up. There will be some free access for non-paying subscibers, along with a “strong offering” for paying subscribers. Let’s hope that are not copying AFR.com.au, and let’s hope …
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Bond and NZ Cricket
Shane Bond is absolutely right to fight the cartel that is NZ Cricket and the ICC. The ‘loss’ of his talent should be a rude reminder to the NZ Cricket authorities that they have drifted from their mission. NZ Cricket are there to ensure we have the best cricket team, along with a great state …
Qtrax launches. Yawn.
Qtrax wants to give away songs via Peer to Peer networks and pay RIAA member companies royalties from revenue earned from ads. Their layer will be avaliable to download shortly – which means that someone is running a decent PR campaign behind the scenes. They are making a big deal about the being Mozilla based, …
Blocking Sky is bad for everyone
Sky may be forced to not bid for exclusive access to big events of “national significance”. Well, it’s one of several proposals apparently, so let’s not jump up and down yet. The result would be less incentve for sky to bid for those events, and therefore a lower final price. That means less money to …
Lance Wiggs 