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May 22, 2012

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Remembering Steve Jobs

Amidst the iCry, iSad and other trite tributes to Apple legend Steve Jobs, a stunningly simple pictorial homage emerged from a 19-year-old in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak today spoke out about Jobs’ vision and driving philosophy, Time offered a rare pictorial insight into Steve Jobs’ private life, and the Onion declared the “last American who knew what the f*** he was doing” dead.

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DraftFCB and MOH dominate Effies

DraftFCB and the Ministry of Health are a pretty bloody good team, going by the numerous awards the duo has won in recent years – and, as of last night, taking out a fair swag of the big gongs at this year’s Effies. DraftFCB was named most effective agency while MOH took the most effective client of the year for the second consecutive year for a collaboration on the National Depression Initiative, which included the e-therapy course ‘The Journal’ and ‘Getting through Depression’ campaigns.

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Digicel and KlickEx launch Pacific mobile wallet system

Digicel Pacific and Auckland tech startup KlickEx have joined forces to offer international money transfers to a mobile wallet for the first time in the Pacific Islands. The Mobile Money service enables people in New Zealand to send money direct to any Digicel mobile phone in Tonga, Fiji and Samoa, for a flat fee of $3.

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Friday frivolity: Mathematical dance moves, the Hoff rides sheep, men in pin-up poses and more

You say: As if I needed to waste any more time on the internet? We say: Nobody gets anything done on a Friday anyway. Here are five links for your distraction, from David Hasselhoff and the sheep twins to Mark Zuckerberg as a Russian general.

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Get your vote(s) on

Today is your very last chance to have your day on the People’s Choice category of the NZ Innovators Awards. Final call. Vote now!

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Run! The zombies are coming!

Struggling to find motivation to lace up those shoes and hit the pavement? Would you run faster with a horde of bloodthirsty zombies in hot pursuit? In what might be the best application of gamification to date, an app called Zombies, Run! to be released next year promises to shake up your exercise routine and get your blood pumping.

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