The videos from the 2010 BBD CEO summit are up. The conference was superb and I do recommend viewing these edited videos. Rob Fyfe: Air NZ’s journey. Strong mesage and well delivered Ingrid Fetell – Human Factors – IDEO. How end user observation leads to great design Adam Lowry from Method – how to deliver …
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Dell’s descent into usability hell
Is the Original Dell.com homepage better or worse than the current one? The original page let you go directly to what you wanted – be it to buy a particular type of computer, get service or check your order. It was ugly but so simple. The current site is a brick wall. I suppose the …
The hot weather in Greece
I switched a long time ago from watching TV for the weather to using the internet or more recently mobile apps. Perhaps that was a mistake – it seems that in Greece at least the TV weather forecast is compelling. It’s all on YouTube. I could stand about 2 minutes – your employer may stand …
Focusing on the long term
The NBR rustled up just four analysts who gave opinions on Telecom’s latest results. Here’s what they had to say: Guy Hallwright, Forsyth Barr: ACCUMULATE Geoff Zame, Deutsche Bank: HOLD Greg Main, Credit Suisse: UNDERPERFORM Tristan Joll, Goldman Sachs: SELL Four analysts, all with different opinions. That’s better than the reverse, as we know that …
It’s all in the eights
Apple store in Singapore, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. The Apple store in Singapore shows one difference between there and here – the prices end in the digit ‘8’. Eight is an auspicious number, and so I guess the SG$2888 MacBook Pro is looking particularly good. Sadly in the NZ store our prices end in ‘9’s. …
The Daily don’t
It’s new, it’s news but it isn’t anything new. The Daily has certainly created a media fuss, but the experience itself is less than perfect, and I struggle to believe it will succeed as a subscription model. The Daily is long on sports and entertainment, and short of hard news. The issue I read had …
What’s the important news Stuff?
Stuff.co.nz – Feb 2, 2011, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I’m disappointed in the ordering of the headlines when I went to Stuff this morning. I have no idea who the person is who has has had a third child. However the news from Egypt is surely one of the news stories of the year, and …
Saving Working Group report is unreadable
I mean that I cannot read it – as the all of the PDF produced text that looks like the above. I hope this gets fixed, as I believe that whatever they are saying is important.
Fix the basics NBR.co.nz
The NBR’s website went through an upgrade just before the end of last year. It wasn’t smooth sailing for them, but the timing, when everyone was away at the beach, was smart. However the site is still in a bit of a state of disrepair. Firstly – the news seems to have scrolled way down …
The Groupy promotion impact
A Neil over at Webdrive sent through this chart showing the impact of Wednesday’s Groupy $1 Hell pizza promotion with advertising over on Stuff. This is showing the amount of traffic coming in and going out, which approached 60 Mbits/sec inbound as the news spread. Our page impressions stats show a similar result. Sorry I …
Photo opportunity
A photo from last year’s visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. US submarine cable vendor TE Subcom invited Pacific Fibre along to an American Chamber of Commerce event in Christchurch, and Pacific Fibre CEO Mark Rushworth and I went along. Thanks for that. Our time with Secretary Clinton was necessarily very short – a …
40,000,000 units sold
At Powerkiwi we have just gone past 40 million units of electricity sold since we launched in February 2009. That’s enough to power 5000 houses for a year, or approaching $9 million worth of power. Our main product is FlowerPower, and over half of our sales are from top-up packs. We also sell a large …
We’ve sold Groupy to Yellow
Below is the press release about the sale of the Groupy assets to Yellow. In short Yellow brings to Groupy the marketing muscle required to expand throughout NZ, while the core Groupy team will hop over to keep things moving at internet speed. Groupy was founded and led by Scott Kitney along with Andrew Hunt. …
Comparing New Zealand to The United States.
A nice little site neatly sums up many of the reasons why I left the USA to come back home. Sure you can make more money, but pretty much everything else is worse. Add into that the knee-jerk responses since 9-11 that make getting stuff done and moving around oh-so-painful, the general atmosphere of partisan …
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The challenge for Fishpond
Here’s Fishpond‘s latest email to me. I like the company a lot, and they are justifiably doing well, but I find it difficult to buy anything from them as I’ve moved increasingly into an electronic world. In September last year I purchased the latest Kindle, which is smaller, faster and a lot lighter than my …
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