Well not ugly – just not full of Web 2.0 rounded corners et al. I’m talking about Zoho mail, after the announcement the other day that it’s gone offline with Google gears. I’m an outlier I guess – I…
I posted a little while ago pretty much calling into question most web revenue. In my post I mentioned; the eventual discovery that online advertising doesn’t really work, and that there are a bunch of emerging technologies that could…
Energiser Bunny in-residence Tim Norton (he of the multi-facets) and Steve Adams from Made From New Zealand facilitated a session looking at building true online communities of love. From humble beginnings…. Tim Talked about the Silicon Welly experiment –…
Yesterday – just as financial markets were crumbling around the world, shareholder value was being eroded and confidence was slipping. Our venerable bank – the Bank of New Zealand – decided to rebrand. Now of course they didn’t decide…
Now here’s a brave, brave man. We’ve all been hearing recently of the step change that broadband will bring to New Zealand – it seems to be one of the big election issues with both main parties coming to…
It was interesting to read this post by Ben (another Ben) who details the rise and rise of Vodafone’s community forum site. Ben says that there is a reluctance within corporate New Zealand to invest the time to build…
A friend of mine is involved in creating a community website overseas and recounted to me an interesting tail. It seems had a preference to using one of the open source content management systems, and maybe going out to…
Next weekend I’ll be up in Auckland attending the inaugural TelecomONE unconference. The organisers, in an attempt to explain what TelecomONE is all about, have come up with the following; The Right People + Opinions + Discussions =…
This is music to my ears – at the recent Web 2.0 conference in New York, the father of Web 2.0, Tim O’Reilly, questioned where Web 2.0 is at, and where it is headed. Tim is quoted as saying…
I posted a few days ago about a guy who created an iPhone app that competed with a native iPhone offering. Apple subsequently decided to withhold acceptance of his application – citing concerns about the competing nature of his…