2012-05-24 09:54:46 // Idealog
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The Huffington Post – scorned as a lowly content aggregator, yet admired for the traffic it pulls – is moving into helping brands become content creators themselves.
2012-05-23 09:22:40 // Esther Goh
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Microsoft has quietly opened up its experimental So.cl social networking service to the public – and been met with an underwhelming reaction.
2012-05-22 09:44:24 // Esther Goh
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We've been anxiously awaiting the announcement, and today it came: Spotify is officially available in New Zealand.
2012-05-21 13:03:29 // StopPress Team
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Companies are focusing less on primary corporate websites and New Zealand’s news and media websites are the most engaging.
2012-05-17 17:14:16 // Esther Goh
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Collaboration is where it's at these days, and fledgling web app Loomio is betting on the trend picking up even more steam going forward.
2012-05-17 14:09:44
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Facebook’s advertising isn’t exactly setting the world on fire – and its social nature may be to blame, writes GigaOm's Mathew Ingram.
2012-05-17 10:16:34 // Esther Goh
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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.
2012-05-16 09:43:29 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
How many emails would you send in the course of a normal day? Dozens? Hundreds?
And what exactly happens after you hit send?
2012-05-15 15:23:06 // Esther Goh
Fashion lovers may not quite be spoiled for choice here but their options are growing with the launch of StyleTread and My Shopping Secrets in New Zealand.
2012-05-14 10:40:40 // Idealog
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New ISP Fyx, a sub-brand of Maxnet, launched last week to fanfare about its 'global mode' setting that it said would allow Kiwi users to access services blocked to our region such as Hulu.
But it has pulled the plug on that particular service, citing matters that "require further consideration before continuing".
2012-05-11 12:49:28 // Hazel Phillips
// Idealog #39: interact
After noticing the explosion of artisan food and our thirst for more and more goodies, Greig Buckley decided to give it an e-commerce twist.
2012-05-10 16:55:57 // Design Daily Team
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Auckland branding design agency Rare Design has launched a digital marketplace for businesses to browse for and buy ready-to-use, exclusive logos created by local talent – a New Zealand first.
2012-05-09 12:21:55 // Idealog
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Apparently you're more likely to climb Everest, have twins or watch American Idol than click on a banner ad.
2012-05-08 17:49:38 // Josh Martin
Frustrated web-junkies rejoice: a new age of ultra-fast downloading, streaming, playing and Facebook-stalking is upon us.
2012-05-04 12:40:46 // Simon Pound
// Idealog #39: now
Online store host solution Dremus could be the next Vend-flavoured success story out of Aotearoa.
2012-05-04 12:32:15 // Idealog
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Websites for boutique beer brand Moa and fashion designer Collette Dinnigan have been judged among the best in the world, helping Auckland digital creative agency Gladeye earn a total of five Communicator Awards.
2012-05-03 14:41:16 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
Like many of the consultancies that sprung up in the wake of the social media wave, Social Kiwi has been hands-on helping businesses with their social efforts. But it hopes to increasingly hand over the reins to companies with the launch of Facebook DIY, a tool designed for SMEs to build and manage their own Facebook apps for a small monthly fee.
2012-05-01 12:10:51
// Idealog #39: interact
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Mixtape.co.nz, the brainchild of media man James Coleman, is harking back to the good old days.
2012-04-30 16:46:19 // Esther Goh
New online service RealMe has a lofty goal: reducing the headache associated with dealing with multiple organisations across both private and public sectors.
2012-04-30 11:35:30 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
Bloggers now have another legit free option when it comes to illustrating posts beyond Creative Commons – and it comes courtesy of The Creative Finder, a platform for creative professionals to showcase their design, illustration and photography work and connect with others in the international community.
2012-04-30 09:53:59 // Esther Goh
Instagram's billion-dollar deal with Facebook has been the talk of the town since the news broke earlier this month, with pundits questioning its worth given its youth and lack of revenue. But it reportedly got a hefty leg up thanks to some careful manoeuvring on the part of cofounder and chief executive Kevin Systrom.
2012-04-26 13:31:13 // Ben Fahy
The Webby Awards aim to honour general internet awesomeness, and fighting it out for gongs with big global beasts like Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest are local hopes Shift for Tourism New Zealand, Resn for Toyota’s Camry Effect, Xero and DDB/Rapp Tribal for McDonald’s. And they need your votes.
2012-04-23 12:40:58 // Chris Rawson
// Idealog #39: workshop
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Future generations may look upon literary agents and publishing houses as curiously old-fashioned.
2012-04-18 12:16:02 // Hazel Phillips
// Idealog #39: now
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New Auckland-loving website gather & hunt is all about the love – and has design at the forefront of its mission
2012-04-17 09:28:38 // Idealog
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Auckland War Memorial Museum has embraced social media to great effect and now has a global award under its belt as reward for its efforts.
2012-04-17 09:21:12 // Idealog
Chorus and Network Tasman have been named as the successful bidders in the government's remote rural broadband contract worth $14.4 million.
2012-04-16 09:42:09 // Idealog
TradeMe and global e-commerce platform ChannelAdvisor have cemented a new relationship that will let online retailers sell their wares directly through the auction site.
2012-04-10 15:12:30 // Josh Martin
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The saying ‘sharing is caring’ makes up the essence of one Aucklander’s social experiment – a website that gives away goods and services for free.
2012-04-10 09:31:12 // Idealog
Pacific Fibre has signed up another foundation customer from the US, taking total sales to US$200 million and prompting it to announce a ribbon-cutting date on the cable.
2012-04-02 15:39:22 // Idealog
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This week's Florence + the Machine’s charity gig will be broadcast live on YouTube – and users will be able to personalise their viewing experience through multiple angles and viewpoints throughout the stream.
2012-04-02 14:38:50 // Josh Martin
// The Idealog Blog
Struggling art students, century-old galleries and New York pop-culture historians are all benefiting from Kiwi business 3d Ltd.
2012-03-20 17:17:35 // Anthony Doesburg
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Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, get that broadband rollin’. The contracts have been awarded and now the rollout begins under New Zealand’s Rural Broadband Initiative. What is the view from the land? Depends on who you ask, says Anthony Doesburg.
2012-03-20 17:09:40 // Anthony Doesburg
// The Idealog Blog
The fact it is even called rural broadband smacks of a “watered down” version of what the urban dwellers will receive. Is it true? Does it matter? Anthony Doesburg explains.
2012-03-20 15:40:19 // Esther Goh
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Internet Explorer is trying to reverse its fortunes with a new web campaign, The Browser You Loved To Hate.
2012-03-15 09:56:30 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
Talk of the internet and how it's shaping our society never gets old. To that end, NetHui is back in 2012 – but if you can't make it, the event will also be video-streamed online.
2012-03-09 12:47:20 // Esther Goh
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From their first incarnations, drawing on video game culture, to Tumblr memes and beyond, the animated GIF has become almost an art form in its own right.
2012-03-07 10:36:43 // Idealog
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Orcon has come out with the first retail pricing plans for UFB, starting at $75 a month for households and $169 for business connections.
2012-03-05 13:08:15 // James Kevany & Richard Watts
// The Idealog Blog
Very little gets the internet community fired-up as much as the notion of online censorship.
2012-02-21 10:13:25 // Esther Goh
The business case for UFB in New Zealand has just gotten a boost in the form of an Alcatel-Lucent study placing the economic benefits of high-speed broadband at $32.8 billion over 20 years.
2012-02-20 10:38:21 // Esther Goh
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Actor and prolific tweeter Stephen Fry has let loose in a rant about the speed of Kiwi broadband, calling it "probably the worst" he's ever encountered.
2012-02-20 09:02:32 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
Google may dominate the search space, but it has dreams of emulating the Star Trek computer in coming years.
2012-02-16 11:22:34 // Idealog
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Is there anything more frustrating than the struggle to obtain a decent wireless signal on your smartphone or tablet?
2012-02-09 13:50:22 // Siobhan Leathley
// The Idealog Blog
The vast majority of Kiwis say they're willing to pay a little extra for faster broadband, but businesses aren't as open to shelling out more for the privilege.
2012-01-27 10:54:32 // Esther Goh
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Wellington company Educa is one of the new wave of startups out to shake up education by improving communication between early childhood providers and parents.
2012-01-24 10:27:19 // Idealog
The health sector could see big benefits from the introduction of UFB, which will also open up opportunities for "innovative" methods of teaching.
2012-01-17 15:59:46 // Siobhan Leathley
// The Idealog Blog
Daniel Crabtree is working on technology to help fine-tune search engines so they understand what users are actually searching for, and getting attention from Microsoft and Google.
2012-01-16 11:25:26 // Siobhan Leathley
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New Zealanders all over the world may soon have a new way to promote their Kiwiness online with a .kiwi domain name.
2012-01-11 13:03:14 // Idealog
Vodafone has stolen the lead in DSL browsing speed, marking a turnaround from slowest provider in the country to the fastest.
2012-01-11 10:51:40
// The Idealog Blog
Developers are in hot demand almost everywhere, so it's no surprise Codecademy and its DIY lessons have taken off. Codecademy founder Zach Sims tells Fast Company why learning how to program is the best job security you can have.
2012-01-06 11:38:36 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
Only in Sweden. File-sharing, the scourge of Hollywood, is now an officially-recognised religion.
2011-12-22 14:33:29 // Siobhan Leathley
Facebook has agreed to work on its privacy policy for users after a three-month investigation by Facebook Ireland resulted in the publication of a 149-page report detailing areas for improvement.
2011-12-20 10:14:29 // Idealog
UFB is supposed to usher in a new age of better business – but almost half of SMEs say the cost of rewiring their premises is a barrier to upgrading to faster broadband.
2011-12-19 14:54:36 // Idealog
Google's web browser Chrome has become the most popular web browser version worldwide for the first time on a weekly basis, analytics firm StatCounter says.
2011-12-14 10:48:02 // Kate Beecroft
Internet service providers PlaNet, Actrix and Inspire have topped Consumer NZ's customer service survey, with all three rating over 96 percent.
2011-12-13 12:59:07 // Idealog
// The Idealog Blog
Ziln is bringing on-demand TV to Sony televisions, marking an expansion into a "full screen lounge room experience".
2011-12-12 09:48:14 // Siobhan Leathley
// The Idealog Blog
TelstraClear head Allan Freeth says telcos must move toward providing tailored services as the data explosion gains momentum.
2011-12-09 16:00:28 // Idealog
// The Idealog Blog
Facebook has captured the hearts (and time) of Kiwis – but MySpace has disappeared off our radars completely.
2011-12-08 08:44:46 // Kate Beecroft
TelstraClear’s weekend of unmetered broadband was an abject failure according to some (InternetNZ and many other irate customers) but a success by others.
2011-11-29 09:58:28 // Idealog
It's a good time to be a TelstraClear user this weekend – the telco is switching off its meters from 6pm on Friday December 2 until midnight on Sunday.
2011-11-22 09:55:44 // Idealog
One Taranaki law firm is branching out to launch what it believes is a first in the New Zealand legal services industry.
2011-11-18 09:52:28 // Ben Fahy
We're all familiar by now with stats about rising online revenue, and Q3 2011 ticked that box again, with New Zealand experiencing one of its biggest year-on-year increases in online ad revenue since 2008, growing 27 percent.
2011-11-14 13:42:20 // Idealog
An internet infrastructure mapping network and and two wireless broadband projects have scored close to $50,000 in funding from InternetNZ thanks to its Community Projects Funding Round.
2011-11-11 10:04:21 // Esther Goh
Otago Polytechnic student Alex Dong has just scored the break of his life – the creators of YouTube have acquired his online social network tool, developed with business partner Tim Bull.
2011-11-08 12:07:59 // Idealog
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After the week from hell – the redesigned Google Reader, Gmail's makeover and a hastily pulled Gmail app for iOS, Google could sure use a winner.
2011-11-08 11:43:49
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Trounced by the collective might of Firefox, Chrome and Safari, Microsoft has launched a desperate attempt to revive Internet Explorer's appeal, as ReadWriteWeb's Joe Brockmeier writes.
2011-11-02 09:03:27 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
Networking is a necessary evil of the working world, and an "inefficient" one at that, according to Kiwi entrepreneur Chirag Ahuja.
2011-10-28 13:44:43 // Esther Goh
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Injecting a bit of spice into the average Kiwi’s limited cooking repertoire is the aim of Fast, Fresh & Tasty, a new iPhone app launched today.
2011-10-21 13:39:21 // Idealog
TelstraClear is holding onto its top spot as the telco offering the fastest webpage downloads, according to September test results issued by the Telecommunications Users Association and TrueNet.
2011-10-21 10:41:22 // Cath Winks
Blind WeekThe Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind has launched a new online collection tool for its Blind Week appeal (October 25-31), making it the first charity in New Zealand to do so.
2011-10-18 10:10:32 // Idealog
// The Idealog Blog
The interwebs is a veritable playground for the digitally-inclined, many of whom were tapped by the Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards last night for standout online initiatives that make our virtual and real lives a little bit better.
2011-10-12 11:26:58 // Esther Goh
Ahead of an upcoming election debate on IT next week, InternetNZ has issued a discussion document calling for a "shared, common vision" for New Zealand's digital future.
2011-10-10 15:46:15 // Esther Goh
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How long does it take for John Paulson to earn my annual income?
Less time than it takes to get to work in the morning, apparently.
2011-10-06 11:27:15 // Esther Goh
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In a first for New Zealand, Farmers has launched a groundbreaking fully interactive product catalogue, which it says customers have embraced wholeheartedly.
2011-10-03 09:57:24 // Brigid Gallagher
// The Idealog Blog
GeoCities is being 'excavated' and preserved, revisualised as a city map with neighbourhoods and property sites.
2011-09-30 10:45:45 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
While we generally start off the morning on the right foot, a new study has used millions of tweets from around the world to determine that our collective moods deteriorate over the course of a day, using software that Kiwis helped to develop.
2011-09-22 14:35:25 // Ben Fahy
Kiwi app Snapr's photo sharing game, Capture the Flag, has captured the attention of some major Kiwi brands. Will it capture consumers?
2011-09-22 09:34:06 // Sarah Robson
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A Kiwi web application has hit the big time, with one of the most widely read CMS blogs naming Contegro as a new entrant on its Top 30 content management systems list.
2011-09-19 17:14:05 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
Two Kiwis are behind what has been dubbed an 'eBay for science', an online marketplace that connects scientists to other institutions with the equipment and means to carry out experiments that their own universities do not have.
2011-09-19 16:56:23 // Esther Goh
Kiwi users have historically paid higher prices for broadband than our Aussie counterparts, and although costs continue to decline, we're still stuck playing catchup.
2011-09-16 10:39:47 // Idealog
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Heidi Klum has apparently replaced Cameron Diaz as the most dangerous celebrity to search for online; those looking for the supermodel's latest photos and other media have nearly a one in 10 chance of landing on a malicious website.
2011-09-14 11:41:48 // Idealog
Putting consumers back in control is the driving force behind a new investment auction website that enables people to find, compare and invest in different term deposits from banks and non-bank institutions.
2011-09-13 13:48:38 // Brad McEvoy
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We need a service that automatically synchronises data across all of your devices, and also houses that data in the web where it can be accessed anytime
2011-09-12 10:18:28 // Idealog
From microsites to virtual memorial walls, the media is marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with all that digital technology has to offer.
2011-09-08 11:15:35 // Idealog
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Joining the wi-fi fray in Auckland are CallPlus and Slingshot, which this week announced they would be providing free internet in central Auckland for the duration of the Rugby World Cup.
2011-09-06 10:39:29 // Idealog
A group of four Northland schools is the first in the country to log onto the government's ultrafast broadband initiative, with a fifth set to be connected in the weeks ahead.
2011-09-02 09:35:18 // Esther Goh
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A group of key players in the local cloud computing industry wants to develop a voluntary code of practice.
2011-08-30 16:38:04 // Vaughn Davis
// Idealog #35: workshop
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If LinkedIn is Facebook if Amway had invented it, then Google+ is Facebook if, well Google had
2011-08-30 16:32:22 // StopPress Team
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Internet users from around New Zealand, over 278,000 of them in fact, have been busy singling out their favourite websites as part of the 2011 People’s Choice NetGuide Web Awards.
2011-08-29 10:00:10 // Brad McEvoy
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Taking Word and Excel files away from the average office worker and replacing them with some sort of online representation would be like taking guns away from Charlton Heston's "cold dead hands".
2011-08-24 15:45:39 // David MacGregor
// Idealog #35: workshop
David MacGregor took a front row seat at the Ministry of Science and Innovation’s conference UX11.
2011-08-24 10:47:04 // Ben Fahy
Online spending always seems to be on the up every time the IAB releases its quarterly year-on-year ad revenue reports and figures released for Q2 are no exception.
2011-08-23 11:35:05 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
It was a dream prize for any tech startup, but ultimately there could only be one winner of BoosterSeat2011 – and that's IntuitionHQ, soon to be taking a free trip to San Francisco thanks to a group of Kiwi entrepreneurs paying it forward on the back of their own Silicon Valley success story.
2011-08-22 11:22:13 // Idealog
Vodafone has signed a 10-year deal with Pacific Fibre to supply international bandwidth on its undersea cable system linking the US to Australia and New Zealand.
2011-08-15 12:26:57 // Idealog
Banking underdog Kiwibank has launched its latest attack on the big players with an interactive experience that exhorts users to "leave all your bad banking experiences behind".
2011-08-12 12:35:21 // Esther Goh
Vodafone has been fined more than $400,000 for misleading customers about charges related to its Vodafone Live! mobile phone internet service in what a judge says amounted to "extraordinary" mismanagement.
2011-08-09 11:00:30 // Idealog
// The Idealog Blog
The fastest browser for real-world users is Google Chrome – way ahead of Safari and Internet Explorer.
2011-08-05 10:04:23 // Esther Goh
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Why would anybody go to the effort of releasing a fake study that supposedly proves IE users have lower IQs than those of us who favour Firefox, Safari and Chrome?
2011-08-03 12:00:37 // Idealog
// The Idealog Blog
While six Kiwi upstarts are pushing ahead with their bid to build a fibre-optic internet cable linking New Zealand, Australia and the US, a coalition of 29 American universities is throwing its weight behind a not dissimilar plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks in their communities.
2011-08-02 10:35:32 // Esther Goh
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Mobile devices and social media are the key drivers behind online retail growth, with expenditure in this area now accounting for 5.1 percent of all retail sales.
2011-07-28 14:05:04 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
Only a scrooge would fail to get a kick out of OK Go's videos, and the band's latest effort will put a smile on your face too.
2011-07-28 09:36:19 // Esther Goh
NZ broadband speeds are continuing to creep up—but we've still got a long way to go to catch up with the rest of the world.
2011-07-27 09:47:27 // Idealog
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Bringing Australian ISP iiNet onboard as a second foundation customer brings Pacific Fibre another step closer to delivering its international internet cable linking New Zealand to the US.
2011-07-26 15:35:01 // Idealog
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Professional networking site LinkedIn has launched a new plugin designed to make the job application as easy as clicking a button.
2011-07-22 12:10:15 // Idealog
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A Northland-based UFB provider has released pricing for its new fibre plans which it says are "unrivalled" anywhere else in the country.
2011-07-21 17:14:01 // Idealog
New copyright laws will target file-sharing through P2P and not streaming sites like YouTube, the government has clarified.
2011-07-21 09:28:40 // Esther Goh
Wellington-based software company Aptimize has been bought by Silicon Valley-based Riverbed Technology in a move which will see its 10 employees relocate to San Francisco.
2011-07-20 11:44:24 // Esther Goh
The landline is dead. Or at least it will be in the near future, and Orcon CEO Scott Bartlett says its new Genius device, on sale today, marks the beginning of the end.
2011-07-19 11:34:46 // StopPress Team
Common sense would have it that, with just about everything moving online, the role of online video advertising too will only get bigger.
2011-07-19 09:41:26 // Idealog
Pacific Fibre has inked a deal with US-based cable company TE SubCom to build an undersea international internet link by 2014.
2011-07-18 14:40:32 // Idealog
// The Idealog Blog
Thinking local is paying off for Google in Africa: local content, local products, local marketing initiatives.
2011-07-15 09:17:41 // Idealog
Increased competition has improved broadband quality, with TelstraClear's cable service consistently providing the best performance, a report released by the Commerce Commission yesterday shows.
2011-07-15 08:00:00 // StopPress Team
As everyone knows, the internet is a wonderful thing to waste time on and social media is often singled out as the biggest cause of this timewastery.
2011-07-13 15:50:43 // Idealog
The local startup with its sights set on running a fibre-optic internet cable under the Pacific Ocean to link to the US has just sealed its first supply deal for $91 million.
2011-07-13 14:14:11 // Vanessa Ellingham
// The Idealog Blog
The latest social experiment film stars a Hollywood actress, Toshiba, Intel—and maybe even you.
2011-07-13 14:11:59 // Michael Moore-Jones
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Through design, let's try to become the country with the highest level of digital literacy worldwide.
2011-07-12 16:38:10 // Idealog
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With our new copyright law only weeks away, it was announced today that ISPs will be able to charge rights holders up to $25 to process infringement allegations.
2011-07-12 14:25:00 // Vanessa Ellingham
// The Idealog Blog
It's time to get your entries in for Mix & Mash, the ultimate competition dedicated to the digital presentation of ideas.
2011-07-12 09:20:23 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
US business consultant, speaker and author John Hagel has plenty of opinions on the state of the company, our changing corporate world and today's modern workforce.
2011-07-07 16:31:30 // Idealog
As if you need more people talking at you in more places, Facebook has teamed up with Skype to integrate video calling into their social networking site. The move has left Facebook looking a wee bit anxious as the announcement was made just one week after major competitor Google launched its own social networking service, Google+. As each company vies for users’ attention, things are certainly heating up in the social networking service race.
2011-07-05 11:20:00 // Idealog
Gaming for a good cause: New Zealand’s largest online social gaming company SmallWorlds has raised $38,000 by selling limited-edition virtual goods to thousands of players.
2011-07-05 10:23:13 // Idealog
Turns out the average pleb can do all sorts of things on the web these days, and if you've done anything particularly cool lately to enhance the online experience for fellow Kiwis (and Aussies) here's your chance to reap the rewards.
2011-07-04 09:07:11 // Esther Goh
Times are tough for Christchurch businesses. But digital agency Vizualise is pushing through, opening a second office in Melbourne this month and forecasting export revenue to double on the back of lucrative international custom, including A-list types looking to cash in on celebrity.
2011-03-22 06:00:00 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
A website detailing the story of New Zealand’s internet, from the high to the lows (and everything in between) has walked away with the most outstanding website honour at the recent Onya awards, which celebrate those who design, develop and create New Zealand's best websites and applications.
2011-02-17 18:17:00 // Natasha Turfrey
// The Idealog Blog
Wellington tech entrepreneur Michael Koziarski shared his formula to happiness and productivity in the workplace at the Webstock conference in Wellington today.
2011-01-19 23:13:08 // Hadyn Green
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There’s nothing quite like Webstock.
Perhaps that’s because it runs counter
to everything the experts said a Kiwi web
conference should be. By Haydn Green
2010-11-05 06:00:00 // Lynda Brendish
// Idealog #30: now
Online magazine Coup de Main started out as an amusement between friends. A year and a half later, it’s a thriving business.
2010-09-16 11:35:54 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
The folks behind web extravaganza event ‘Webstock’ have been planning the 2011 event since the day Webstock 2010 ended. And next year’s event is set to be launched in just one week’s time on Thursday September 23, and lucky you, you’re invited.
2010-09-10 09:36:58 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #29: now
Eighteen thousand kilometres from home, wandering through the 2,000-year-old ruins of a Roman city, Glen Barnes had a vision of the future.
2010-08-04 12:04:06 // Simon Young
// Idealog #28: workshop
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Cars have been sold the same way for decades. It's time for a grand experiment.
2010-07-05 11:35:16 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
Fifty time-saving tools to make life easier for web designers, via Smashing Magazine.
2010-06-30 10:33:44 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
You might have seen Haydn Green's blogs for us about the recent FullCodePress event - which he dubbed the 'geek Tri-Nations'. Now Jason Santa Maria, who participated in the event on the American side, has blogged about his experiences at the event.
2010-06-22 11:53:17 // Deirdre Robert
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In a new twist on Ponoko.com’s popular personal factory concept, creators can now design and make their own desktop factory using open source 3D printing from MakerBot Industries.
2010-06-18 10:33:14 // Julie Starr
// The Idealog Blog
FullCodePress is back this weekend—and this time a US team is here with some serious star power.
2010-04-23 11:48:21 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #27: interact
Eric Ries has watched promising companies burn, accidental ideas succeed and bad products turn good. Working out why has led him to his own methodology, the Lean Startup. But will Silicon Valley’s rules work in Enzed?
2010-03-11 16:20:53 // Peter Griffin
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An entrepreneurial dream team is set to finally give Kiwis the internet as it should be—fast and uncapped. Oh, and lend a hand to our Australian cobbers too.
2010-03-10 15:45:33
// Idealog #26: plus Web business | Viva la revolution! With the nature of business changing almost before our eyes, it’s time to take it online—or be left behind.
2009-12-11 09:58:45 // Mike Brown & Natasha Lampard
// Idealog #25: interact
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Webstock 2010 is nearly upon us. Webstock’s senior VPs reflect on past glories—and those yet to come.
2009-12-04 12:44:07 // Julie Starr
// Idealog #24: features
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In a Wellington corridor, Nat Torkington laid down a challenge—and sparked a small revolution. Julie Starr reveals how a loose collection of determined Kiwi innovators are using public data to change the ways that politicians, public servants, companies and people communicate. But is the country ready? Plus streetwise and now open.
2009-11-19 12:52:49 // Kris Herbert
// Idealog #24: now
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Online maps are low-res, low-impact and usually low-rent. But a Christchurch company has mapped the city in high-res—including some local interiors.
2009-10-02 11:23:14 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #23: features
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We pay for the Herald, but not for its website; we’ll give money to Sky while we let the state-owned TVNZ struggle. As business thinkers proclaim the age of the free and Rupert Murdoch heads a fightback, Matt Cooney asks if we really know the value of a dollar. Plus keep on giving.
2009-08-21 11:00:05 // Felicity Monk
// Idealog #22: features
Ben King and Adam Bryce are on a mission to democratise art. With a beer budget and a billionaire’s contact book, they dream of kick-starting a new street culture scene in Auckland. Felicity Monk meets the founders of Plaything Gallery. Plus bring the noise
2009-07-28 10:26:21 // Matt Cooney
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Barry Colman invited a firestorm when he announced that the NBR would stop publishing all its content online for free, and instead would save some of its material for paid subscribers. A week later, how’s he doing?
2009-07-03 08:44:52 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
Innovation isn’t just a commercial buzzword. It can transform our schools, hospitals, public spaces, transport, workplaces and our leisure time. And now New Zealand has its own organisation dedicated to encouraging new thinking to transform Kiwi society.
2009-07-01 08:57:45 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
The inaugural Onya Awards will celebrate the achievements of our best-is-yet-to-come web luminaries.
2009-06-18 16:21:52 // Stephen Jewell
// Idealog #21: now
Author Cory Doctorow is a merciless critic of the mega-corporations that seek to control creative content—and he’s happy to give his own work away for free
2009-05-19 09:30:45 // Laura Westphal
// Idealog #21: now
Web design company Fracture gets interactive at South by Southwest, much to the delight of Kiwi architects Jasmax
2009-05-08 16:00:09 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #21: features
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Who would have thought that infrastructure was the most interesting part of the Internet? Welcome to cloud computing, where big pipes and big iron create a second—no, third—generation of Internet entrepreneurs. Matt Cooney asks: could New Zealand become the Land of the Long Net Cloud? Plus cloud concepts and Me 2.0
2009-03-05 09:41:51 // Peter Griffin
// Idealog #20: features
It’s a decade since Kiwis could pick their power provider—and yet reading your power bill is an exercise in frustration. What if you could buy your power from anybody—the cheapest, the greenest, or the most socially involved—and never receive a ‘bill shock’ again? That’s the promise of a new Kiwi startup—and it will even let you launch your own power company. Peter Griffin meets the bright sparks behind Powershop
2009-02-20 18:28:12 // Ben Kepes
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Damian Conway is a PhD in computer science and, until recently, was honorary professor of computer science at Monash University. He’s a designer, a columnist and an author.
2009-02-20 17:08:36 // Ben Kepes
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Bruce Sterling is a science fiction author, a design essayist and a net critic. He’s also one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
2009-02-20 15:34:12 // Ben Kepes
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Tom Coates is a product designer who has worked for UpMyStreet and the BBC and now works for Yahoo. He’s currently working on fire eagle. a location capturing, managing and sharing service.
2009-02-20 14:48:29 // Ben Kepes
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Matt Jones is a designer who was formerly creative director for the BBC news online. He was with Nokia as the director of UX design and he’s now with Dopplr.
2009-02-20 14:05:35 // Ben Kepes
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Russ Weakley has a 13 year pedigree in graphic design, web development, interface design and standards based development. He’s the author of Teach yourself CSS in TenMinutes and he works for the Australian museum. Two years ago he presented to Webstock suggesting that navigation be torn apart and be replaced by total reliance on tagging — today’s talk is a “so what happened?” review.
2009-02-20 11:08:03 // Matt Cooney
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Adrian Holovaty is reinventing online journalism, where the data tells the tale and statistics never lie
2009-02-20 10:33:03 // Ben Kepes
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Derek is an international accessibility expert. Can we do things on the web that go beyond the ‘can we just meet the guidelines’ and make things truly more accessible for users?
2009-02-20 09:41:02 // Ben Kepes
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Russell Brown is a blogger, a journalist and (according to traditional media) an ‘internet specialist’. So what are the trend that are at the forefront of publishing at the moment?
2009-02-19 15:40:45 // Ben Kepes
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Heather Champ is the director of community at Flickr, seeing it grow to 24 million members sharing 2.8 billions photos and videos with 3 billion page views per month.
2009-02-19 15:04:57 // Ben Kepes
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Adrian is a journalist (ahhh—that’s a good thing—a dying breed) and a developer of web apps for washingtonpost.com, lawrence.com and LJWorld.com. If that wasn’t enough he also co-created Django, the open-source development framework.
2009-02-19 14:09:44 // Ben Kepes
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David is a tech lead for Six Apart, home of the blogging software that powers most of the world's pro blogs—Movable Type.
2009-02-19 12:24:06 // Ben Kepes
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Meg Pickard is the head of communities and user experience for guardian.co.uk. She points out that users interact with content in many different ways. Consume, React, Curate, Create
2009-02-19 09:13:34 // Ben Kepes
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Well here we are in the vibrant, creative and seemingly totally web-enabled city of Wellington (disclosure—I'm a Wellington boy borne and bred). Around 600 people have jetted in from all around the world to take part in what is quickly getting a name as one of the coolest conferences bar-none (heck—even the free schwag is a better class than what seasoned conference goers are used to).
2009-02-17 13:16:21 // Ben Kepes
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Some call Webstock the greatest conference this side of Silicon Valley, while others just call Webstock the greatest conference bar none
2008-12-01 09:45:54 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #19: interact
‘Transportation’ might be a strange word to describe a web conference, but for Webstock it’s a good fit. Plus on their way to Webstock: Jane McGonigal and Matt Jones
2008-08-15 11:35:20 // Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog #16: features
Kevin Roberts: is he God or just a good talker? Vincent Heeringa talks to the world’s most irrepressible optimist and New Zealand’s biggest booster about love and rugby, blue as the new green, snail porridge and the new simplicity. Plus the Eagle vs Shark quiz
2008-08-08 11:57:01 // Peter Griffin
// Idealog #16: features
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Nigel Stanford tried his hand at music and design but made his fortune on the web, creating social sites and running Trade Me when Sam Morgan left town. Now he’s moving into movies with his own studio. Peter Griffin tracks his strange journey. Plus Trade Me’s fab four and trading places
2008-03-28 15:14:43 // Peter Griffin
// Idealog #14: features
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If you can draw your idea, Wellington startup Ponoko can probably make it—and find buyers for it too. Idealog meets the New Zealanders at the forefront of the handmade revolution
2007-11-06 12:03:40 // David MacGregor
// Idealog #12: workshop
Does mass collaboration herald the rise of a new literati, or just more monkeys with typewriters? Two books take polar views
2007-02-27 16:41:44 // Gena Tuffery
// Idealog #8: features
That ‘Big Idea’ can take half a lifetime to arrive, so it deserves a bit of fanfare when it does. Hamish Edwards and Rod Drury planned to launch Xero, a breakthrough software accounting system, five years ago. Then they waited. Now, reports Gena Tuffery, their number is up
