I like Sarah Lacy, I kind of felt for her when she was torn apart for her interview of Facebook founder mark Zuckerberg last year. True she came across that time as something of a sycophant – but she…
I got an email from Xero today advising that Westpac customers can now have their bank feeds automatically brought into their Xero accounting software (this has been available from the other banks for some time now). Eagle eyed readers…
I love mobile data – I use it plenty but I’m not of the evangelical school that says that mobile data will replace fixed data for everything. It was really interesting (and refreshing) to read Scott’s post giving his…
Over on TechCrunchIT they’re not satisfied just talking about tech – now they want to create it. They have visions to create a very lightweight tablet PC running pretty much as a web book. The product looks cool –…
As most of you know I use Google Apps to run MiramarMike.co.nz and thoroughly enjoy the freedom that I have when it comes to accessing and using my company information from wherever I am in the world (Wellington mostly)…
I spend rather a lot of time reading and commenting upon blogs. I’m also part of various different community website’s. One thing that has struck me is the huge difference in registration complexity between sites. Take this morning for…
Much talk of late has centred around the difficulties that Twitter has had scaling its infrastructure. Given the vacuum left by the regular and annoying downtime that Twitter faces, people have been discussing the alternatives – many a new…
It’s been said a million times before, a great idea without any plan for monetisation is a great idea for burning money and little else. I always cringe when I see new businesses started with no thought whatsoever towards…
Simon G pointed out a presentation on slideshare titled “What the F**K is Social Media”. It’s a fantastic show and should be compulsory viewing for anyone at a management level within a corporate (and that includes the board –…
Eureka! – a study just published tells us that Facebook (and other social networking sites) have a significant educational benefit. The crux of the findings are that low decile students, those formerly found to be at the lower end…