Blog Archives

Vodafone upping the ante…

November 12, 2007

Business, IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy

News that Vodafone is releasing a service which will bypass Telecom’s copper network. Vodafone at home will route calls from a normal phone via the Vodafone cellular network. At $40 a month for unlimited national calls it’s reasonably good…

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A geek’s alternative to TradeMe….

November 12, 2007

Business, IT, New Zealand

Free, and specific to the geek community, Geekzone have just launched the offers and wanted forum. Pretty self explanatory – anything tech related (or not) can be bought, sold or traded, sans commissions, at the forum. Go to it…

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Need for another option for banking…

November 12, 2007

Business, Design, Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0

Recently there have been a plethora of calls (well from within the blogging community anyway) for some kind of banking 2.0 offering. Latest is this post from Bwooce where he makes the suggestion that telcos could leverage their existing…

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Ouch… speed wobbles hurt…

November 12, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, Governance, IT, New business, New Zealand, Strategy

Start-up and Icehouse incubatee OpenEye displays seems to be in serious difficulty. CEO and founder Gareth Croy has gone AWOL and staff numbers have plummeted from 21 earlier this year to only three now. As I’ve said before –…

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Support or dependency?

November 12, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Society

Lance posted here about an entrepreneurial individual who has set up a rice donation website – and in the process made himself a significant amount of money. It got me thinking about the difference between charity and support. As…

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Surely not… MS blocking Gmail?

November 11, 2007

Business, IT, SaaS

With hat tip to Mauricio for pointing out this most strange situation. It seems Microsoft is blocking users with a Gmail address from accessing the MS Live services (non MS addresses are permitted but for some reason Gmail isn’t).…

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Picasa web albums…

November 11, 2007

Business, IT, SaaS

I’m a simple sort of a bloke and easily pleased. Picasa web albums pleases me. You see I’ve got a bunch of photos on my home machine that, while backed up on a RAID drive, still leaves me nervous…

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Facebook and the illusion of privacy

November 10, 2007

Business, Efficiency, IT, Society, Web x.0

A great post over here about Facebook’s “beyond push” advertising – Beacon. He makes the interesting comment that; Spying is best done surreptitiously. The Peeping Tom that you don’t see is of infinitely less concern to you than the…

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2Talk/Callplus – let the battles begin (or continue)

November 10, 2007

Business, New Zealand

Talk about airing your dirty laundry… Annette Presley and Malcolm Dick (or their respective legal counsel) went to court yesterday to begin the legal battle over 2talk. A synopsis; Annette says Malcolm and co started a new company mainly…

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Beer is entering the new age….

November 9, 2007

Branding, Business, Design, New business, New Zealand, Strategy

Mauricio pointed out the new Stella Artois website which does a good job of verticalised marketing and building the network effects. Stella have identified the value in viral advertising, building a network and providing consistent offerings both on, and…

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