A couple of things caught my eye in Hitwise‘s latest New Zealand newsletter. The first is that nzherald.co.nz made it to number 10 on the list of online department stores: Top 10 Shopping and Classifieds – Department Stores based on Visits for December 2009 1. Amazon.com [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Catching up on some reading this weekend I read Rod Drury’s blogpost on xero.com (online accounting software company) about why Twitter matters for business. He does a good job I think of explaining the value of Twitter for anyone running a company. He starts by showing how Twitter has grown over the past couple of [...]
Saturday, April 18, 2009
The good folks at TVNZ Media7 have kindly shared this cheery video tutorial on what the Official Information Act allows and how to use it.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
I had the good fortune recently to attend KiwiFoo (aka Baa Camp), a kind of unconference which brings together a cluster of people from various fields who share at least one thing: a burning passion for what they do. Hard to go wrong with a starting point like that and sure enough it proved a [...]
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Interactive Advertising Bureau says online ad spend was up sharply in the fourth quarter, and total internet spending for 2008 up a whopping 43% year-on-year to $193 million. But there’s a spike in the tail: spending in the fourth quarter was 3% down over the immediatlely proceeding period.
Friday, February 20, 2009
I'm at Webstock and I'm sitting across the table from a guy who built the BBC's iPlayer and customisable homepage, next to the manager of NZ On Screen and listening to US journalist and blogger Annalee Newitz talk about how science fiction gives us vocabulary and a frame of reference for emerging technologies.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
New Zealanders are hooked on Google if Hitwise‘s recent figures are anything to go by. In its monthly report the analytics company said 92.27 per cent of searches made in New Zealand in the 12 weeks to December 27 2008 were made through google.com or google.co.nz. This represents a 2.8% increase compared to 6 months [...]
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Video clip of Dougal Stevenson reading the news in NZ - in the good old days before presenters became chatty and emotive.
Friday, November 21, 2008
From John Drinnan's piece in the Herald today about BusinessDay moving under the Stuff umbrella, here's the latest NeilsonOnline uniques for NZ's business sites. "Over the past 15 weeks Nielsen Online Market Intelligence counted the average weekly unique browsers to business sites. They were: nzherald.co.nz/business: 187,000, Stuff Business: 136,000, National Business Review: 37,000.
Monday, October 27, 2008
I've forgotten more TV shows and movies than I remember, which is what makes the new website NZ On Screen so good. In the past 20 minutes I've stumbled across McPhail and Gadsby, the first episode of Spot On and It's In The Bag, none of which I'd thought about in years. Lots of years. (My, Selwyn Toogood had lovely enunciation.)
Evolving Links
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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