• You don’t say…

    March 8, 2008

    Economic Development, New Zealand, Society
     

    Our esteemed Reserve Bank Governor, Allan Bollard, gave a speech yesterday during which he enunciated what everyone has known and talked about (OK apart from Real Estate agents but they only marginally fall into the category of people). Cullen…

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  • Funny Friday…

    March 7, 2008

    Design, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS
     

    Well funny for some, awfully tragic for others…. In my web travels I stumbled upon this blog, announcing (or not quite) MYOB’s on-demand SME accounting product Business Basics Online.The announcement goes; we’ve kept a watchful eye…., particularly through our…

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  • Sam Morgan moves on from CEO role…

    March 7, 2008

    IT, New Zealand
     

    In a long expected move, Sam Morgan is standing aside from the role of CEO of TradeMe to concentrate on the day to day running of his investment portfolio. Jon McDonald, former general manager of the company, is taking…

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  • Gumtree takes on free listing space…

    March 7, 2008

    IT, New Zealand
     

    I received an email this morning from Ebay (who has almost no presence in New Zealand due to the massive incumbency of TradeMe) inviting me to use Gumtree, a regionalised free classified site. I went and had a look…

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  • Wow… Give me Google aps anyday

    March 6, 2008

    Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    Let’s forget the arguments around ability to collaborate and online accessibility. Instead lets think about what we want from Office Productivity apps – we want to obtain, display and process information. Now, courtesy of ReadWriteWedb’s comment of the day,…

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  • Nearly nearly…

    March 6, 2008

    SaaS
     

    News this morning that Google has rolled out an Ap that syncs Google call with Outlook. I was excited until I read that it only works for one Google calendar – if you’re like me and you run multple…

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  • Unified Communications for dummies

    March 6, 2008

    Branding, IT
     

    Check out this informative and succinct video. It gives a great introduction and overview of unified communications, an area with big development occurring almost everyday.

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  • Internet explorer 8 released..

    March 6, 2008

    IT
     

    News this morning that IE8 has been released to the general public. I’ve always used Firefox but thought Id give IE8 a test drive. Very initial feedback is showing that it’s pretty fast – Xero tended to be a…

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  • Help Telecom build better products…

    March 5, 2008

    Design, IT, New Zealand, SaaS
     

    Over on the Silicon Welly blog, Tim Norton from PlanHQ is asking for Wellington based volunteers to give some feedback on some new products and services due to be rolled out over the coming year. This is one of…

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  • The future of transportation…

    March 5, 2008

    Business and the Environment, Design, Society
     

    This is cool. Project Better Place is partnering with the Israeli Government, Renualt and Nissan to roll out what is in effect subscription based transportation throughout Israel. The plan by Project Better Place to bring EVs to the masses…

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