We are going through the Lingopal design process at the moment for various products (J2ME, Website etc.). It’s all heating up as launch approaches. This is the worst nightmare result – design by committee: (via Slashdot’s new idle.slashdot.org) Above all the video demonstrates what happens when you have lots of people inputting and yet no …
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iTunes: Enough said. Microsoft lost the battle
“Enough said. Microsoft lost the battle in the consumer entertainment media space.: That’s Mauricio Freitas – Microsoft MVP and fan – in response to iTunes offering videos in New Zealand and Australia. There’s a critical flaw however. iTunes got big through usability, but most importantly because it made it easy to transfer your CD’s to …
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Never advertise during the Olympics
It seems that if you sponsor the Olympics then you get thousands of TV advertising spots thrown in. So – for those companies that sponsor the Olympics this is for you: STOP By now I now dislike your company, your products, and most especially your advertisements. It’s only day 4. By the end of the …
Kiwiblog is absolutely unreadable!
Picture 990, originally uploaded by y_kiwi. This is what I saw when opening Kiwiblog just now….
Not so funny when you could die
You may have seen this already. It looks like the plane wasn’t chocked (at least not properly), and with a gap opening up under passengers feet that was over 2 meters high (3 actually) this was a potentially fatal incident. It should be recorded as such – it’s a near miss – a zero barrier …
Pay the bureaucrats more money not less
Not PC bemoans the highly paid Government sector. So does anti-dismal. I disagree. The alternative to highly paid bureaucrats is lowly paid bureaucrats. Lowly paid bureaucrats are far far worse than highly paid ones. Here are three resons why: Lack of talent – why work for Government when you can get more money working in …
Dick Smith Vodafone iPhone fail
Not so correct grammar at the Freo Dick Smith store.
Internet still reigns as the cheapest ad dollar spend
It’s the big one – the one that moves industries, creates new ones and destroys old ones. Just how much time are people spending on the internet versus other forms of media? You see when the news finally hits that people are switching off TV, newspapers and magazines and switching on to the internet full …
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Four more factoids from the NZ Internet Report
At the bottom of the Wolrd Internet Project – NZ Report are some nice cross tab charts. I find these interesting not just for the internet data, but also for some of the other insights. 1: Wealthier people spend more time with their family, Pakeha spend the least time with family, Males (self reported remember!) …
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Top ten findings from the Internet In New Zealand 2007 report
The World Internet Project New Zealand report came out. Worth a look as it is part of a great world-wide project, and will hopefully provide great trends going forward.. Sadly the data is old. Really old in internet time. The WIPNZ survey was conducted in September-October 2007. Why does it take 8 months to analyse …
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Lingopal – the latest
We are getting there at Lingopal, the start-up that my cousin is running Perth. We seem to have gelled around this logo for now, while we are running at full pace on website and application developent. Expect more soon…
Immigration – bring us your masses
I’m reading “Immigrants – your county needs them“, by Philippe LeGrain. Fascinating. I’ve been an advocate of open borders for a long time – and I mean truly open, anyone can live where they like (subject to limitations on criminals and the like). So it seems is Philippe and a host of economists. Turns out …
Ferrit beaten by who? Torpedo7, that’s who
Nielsen Net Ratings latest press release shows that shopping wannabe Ferrit was third in the online shopping traffic rankings behind 1-day.co.nz. At 2.96% of the weekly unique browsers of Trade Me, and still offering a bunch of shopping categories, Ferrit continues to be irrelevant. Second placed (but still tiny) 1-day is interesting – they specialize …
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Vodafone and data warehousing: A translation of that abstract
<cynic mode firmly switched on, with apologies to Rachel> Via Mauricio, it seems from this, that Vodafone are using data warehousing techniques to drive customer retention. I’ve had a go at interpreting the abstract of “The Customer Retention Journey at Vodafone New Zealand” below. Speaker Rachel Harrison is the Vodafone Lead Analyst who is giving …
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Chocolate fish, bloggers and a tragic death
Horrible news from the inquest of Chocolate Fish landlord Adrianus Johanus Vlug, who the coroner found committed suicide after feeling pressure from “rather uninformed bloggers” about the rent increases at the chocolate fish. From that point onward, a series of Facebook blog articles appeared mostly condemning the landlord for having a ‘greedy’ attitude with respect …
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