Friday frivolities: Facetaches, tea with Alan Rickman, Facebook gripes and more…
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Loomio: The Kiwi web app out to democratise decision-making
2Collaboration is where it's at these days, and fledgling web app Loomio is betting on the trend picking up even more steam going forward. More …
This land is my land, this land is (not) your land
As a country trying to find common ground between globalisation and Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) parochialism, the issues around land ownership—particularly farming—are getting a tad muddy. Dita De Boni investigates. More …
Facebook’s biggest problem? It’s a media company
Facebook’s advertising isn’t exactly setting the world on fire – and its social nature may be to blame, writes GigaOm's Mathew Ingram. More …
A quick word with … entrepreneur/art director Kyra Clarke
Kyra Clarke is the driving force behind international art and design publication Threaded Magazine, now in its seventh year. We caught up with her just as the smoke was clearing and Threaded XII went to print (it's scheduled for ... More …
Telecom doubles its data, jumps back in the advertising game
1Telecom holds around half of the total residential ISP market, but it's looking to increase that, sweeten the deal its for existing customers and get more people streaming by doubling the amount of data for all Total Home broadband ... More …
Google’s Knowledge Graph: Things, not strings
Google is starting to roll out its newest search feature, Knowledge Graph, an enhancement that serves up extra info instantly in the sidebar of your search result. More …
Cavalier Bremworth cashes in on Target’s sticky, sorry story
You'd have been hard pressed to miss the brouhaha over the over-familiar carpet cleaner who got busted busting one out on Target this week – and the accompanying hashtag. More …
Facebook and the tale of two media models
Old media covets Facebook's IPO billions, while new social media envies the old's content, writes Michael Wolff in the Guardian. More …
Events
Taking New Zealand businesses to the next level
New Zealand has all the basics to help businesses thrive – the challenge is to step it up a notch. More …
Story of Send traces the journey of a humble email
How many emails would you send in the course of a normal day? Dozens? Hundreds? And what exactly happens after you hit send? More …
Innovation
Grasslanz averting bird strike through means of indigestion
1Grasslanz Technology was thrilled to scoop the award for most innovative product in agritech at the Hi-Tech awards on Friday night – all by making birds feel queasy. More …
Photovoltaic yacht circles the globe
After nearly two years at sea, the MS Tûranor PlanetSolar has become the first photovoltaic boat to sail around the world. More …
Enspiral’s collective model poised to take on the world
Wellington’s Enspiral is a difficult beast to describe in traditional terms. For a start, there’s very little to compare it to. More …
Chew and spit: sticky sculpture marks art school merger
One for the too-wacky-to-be-true-but-is files: a giant chewing gum sculpture that incorporates the DNA of more than 3,000 students who each stuck a piece of chewed gum on the work. More …
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