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 …
Category Archives: media
Waiting room TV
Great ideas are obvious in retrospect – and this is a doozy. Health TV will show targeted health programing to people waiting in doctors waiting rooms. With an average wait of 20 minutes that’s an opportunity to hit an audience with some juicy advertisements along with that content. Sadly for HealthTV’s international prospects this isn’t …
txtstation signs a great deal
Interesting deal that Kiwi company txtstation has made in the USA. They are working with Fox TV and the NBA on mobile-interactive TV, allowing Americans to answer questions posed on the small screen. While the USA is well behind in TXTs (and well ahead in mobile email), I wonder whether the success of American Idol, …
Trade Me purchase is paying off…
Fairfax’s purchase of Trade Me* is paying dividends – at least in the headlines of competitors APN’s NZ Herald: “Fairfax stagnating but Trade Me making progress”
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 …
Sunday Star Times redesign
Interesting blog post about the redesign of the Sunday Star times – from the persepective of an American designer who was involved. It’s a little old (Sept 2006) but still makes for a good read. It’s always refreshing to see how the Kiwi ‘can do’ attitude is seen in the rest of the world.
Future of Newspaper industry
Here’s an answer to a question I posted a little while back in Linked-In while playing with their new questions and answers feature. It was rated ‘good answer’ by the questioner, whatever that means. Question Future of the Newspaper Industry? How long will the newspaper business continue as it is today? Circulation has been decreasing …
US Politics via Harry Potter..
For those who don’t share my passion for US politics (which I try to keep out of this blog) here’s one way to think of the status quo: “Dick Cheney is Lord Voldemort. George W. Bush is Peter Pettigrew.” Don Rumsfeld is Lucius Malfoy, while Cornelius Fudge represents administration supporters who deny that anything is …
myspaceNZ
MySpace is launching a New Zealand site. Not a bad idea, if a little late. Three comments: 1: This is NZMusic‘s loss – they failed to make the transition from cool Muso discussion board to cool social networking muso space. 2: Bebo already owns New Zealand, except last time I looked their ads were not …
Lance Wiggs 