Excellent presentation, by Mary Meeker, analyst at Morgan Stanley: Mary Meeker Web 2.0 Presentation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web 2.0)

While doing a search for results on the American election this evening, I came across this… lets call it “decent” ad for the Labour party. Being the advertising nerd that I am sometimes, I was rather amused by this idea and decided to see what other party’s had going in terms of their Google Adwords. [...]

The eyes of the world will be on the US elections on Tuesday, however there is another election happening this week here in New Zealand, if you live here you might have heard about it. I decided to put my geek hat on, and look at how the three main parties (based on current polling), [...]

I started using a PC about 20 years ago when I was an executive director at a company that was starting up New Zealand’s first music television channel. As a willing participant I took to it like duck to water. Always having understood the value of computing I was a slow starter due to my [...]

Is this new? Or am I just really unobservant? UPDATE: Yes, I’m really unobservant. It has been in place for ages. It is interesting though, as I obviously always use the built-in search box in the browser. Technorati Tags: google aotearoa

It is time for this month’s Auckland Web Meet Up on Thursday 11th September at 6pm and I’m really looking forward to it. I have had to miss the last two events, however, this one looks like it will make up for that. A very brave guy from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team in Redmond will [...]

Over the last few years there have been 3 things worrying me in the back of my mind: Will I stop being cool when I get old? Will I lose my hair when I get old? Will I lose touch with new technologies when I get old? I think its a safe bet to say [...]

Google are considering if they should look at user feedback into search results. As good as their algorithm is, you will always get irrelevant listings in the search results, and who better to know but a human end user. I think if they can take this data into account, as part of the overall calculation [...]

Here is the situation – you?’ve just purchased an iPhone 3G with the intention to use it on Vodafone NZ on prepay.  Your wallet weights next to nothing now, but excited and aroused by the fact that you are holding an iPhone with 3G,  of course, you ought to try out the much hyped ?"mobile [...]

I am well overdue to post about about this project we have been working on since the beginning of the year. We were involved in the launch of a site called InfoConnect by NZTA (previously Transit New Zealand). This explains it best: InfoConnect is an initiative to help ensure road users have access to timely [...]