Some pictures from this year’s Brass Monkey. We were a little early for the snow this year, and the weather was basically perfect. This one of me was taken by Mike Nash: Ruapehu – on the way South from Auckland. Kapiti – from Waikanae Beach One of the entertaining Interislander passengers. We always seem to …
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IPOing in NZ – notes from the NZX and Xero presentation
The NZX and Xero, along with Cameron partners and Bell Gully held a “Masterclass” on IPOing in NZ yesterday. Xero CEO Rod Drury wears two hats, as he is also a director of the NZX, but they were also represented by Tim Bennett, the new CEO and Andrew Harmos the chair. Ross Christie from Cameron …
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Buyers and Sellers guide to Web Design and Development firms
A few weeks ago I requested visits to Auckland Web design and development firms, receiving a healthy range of responses. I didn’t get to visit everyone, but thanks to everyone who replied, and to those who suffer my visit. I managed to get to, in the self-imposed two-week deadline, 11 companies: 3Bit, Marker Studio, OnFire, Pitch, TheWebCompany, …
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Linked-in spam
linked in spam, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I increasingly don’t understand the purpose of Linked-In. They were a nice way of connecting to business contacts, but are and will always be a lousy way of doing anything else. As they add ‘friend’ updates, news and so forth the real messages (which is who doing what) …
Our Far South – more pictures
It’s hard to describe how beautiful and how cold it was in Antarctica, so here are some pictures to help. Click on them for giant versions.
The NZ Klout and Klouchebag chart
Klout purports to measure online influence. Apparently I’m worth 45.34, with those two decimals implying a degree of science beyond the measurement. It’s all hogwash of course: The problem with Klout is that a higher score is very often a measure of a higher level of painfulness for the rest of us. Higher scores can …
Boy for sale – partially
I just checked the iTunes NZ store, and sometime between my blog post last September and now, the movie Boy was placed on NZ’s iTunes store. Excellent. Not so excellent is the price, and that when I opened the link somehow both the SD and HD versions of the movie started automatically downloading. I have …
Sorry Mum
Sorry Mum, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Not this year. Apple seems to have a very strange perspective on Mothers’ day.
Our Far South – videos, photos and presentations
Over at OurFarSouth.org Rhian has published the summary presentations and videos that we have to date. First – the videos. They are pretty small – and it’s kinda fun to play them all at once. King Penguins Eternally entertaining. Elephant Seals The noises, oh the noises. Sea Ice Thankfully not strong enough for the ship. …
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WordAds
I’ve just activated WordPress’s WordAds feature. Apparently we get to see some advertisements on this site and I get to earn $millions. That won’t happen (the $millions bit), but I am interested in how this feature is implemented and what sort of advertisements are coming through. So if you see any ads – positive or …
Trade Me and Seek fight it out
trade me jobs, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. It’s pretty amazing looking at the Seek and Trade Me Jobs unique browsers stats. Neither site has managed to eke out an advantage. I guess that means everyone is checking both sites, but also that advertisers would be wise to place ads on both sites as well. Each …
Fixing supermarket self checkout
Buying your groceries at a supermarket is pretty simple – wait in a queue, hand your items over, pay for them, pick them up and go. However the checkout counters are expensive, take up valuable space and only work when there are staff present. That makes it difficult to ramp up or down for demand, …
Calling Auckland Web design and development firms
I often get asked by small to large businesses for help in finding and selecting firms to design websites. While I know a few design firms, I suspect there are many that I have not met, and I don’t know enough about the ones I do know. Over the next two weeks I’d like to …
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Instagram, value and hard work
iPhone (and now Android) photo app developer Instagram just announced that they sold for US$1 billion of Facebook stock and cash. They have no revenue model. The free app allows iPhone owners to take photos and use various filters to make them look archaic and so forth, and became the cool thing to do. The …
Bank homepages in New Zealand – a review
Westpac NZ has launched a new website. They are using Silverstripe, so that means they can more rapidly make changes going forward. That’s good, because the site itself is a mess: There is far too much going on. If you want to, say, calculate how much a home loan would cost, then on mouse-over a …
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