Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I don't see how bebo/myspace/facebook/xing et al can ever have as robust a model. They don't offer me anything, and I suspect they don't have much to give advertisers.
thirty-five million people (half the userbase) return daily.
I'm not buying advertising, but that many people, with facebook knowing that much about them for targetting advertising... I think they've got a little something to give advertisers.
Trademe will only ever be NZ based, so it's limited to NZ. It'll never get much bigger than the 2 million or so that it has now, facebook/bebo etc are growing like crazy.
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And Facebook is really worth sixty times as much?
Yeah, but I think we're in that decade. It's the new dot.com revolution.
I mean, hands up who thinks trademe was worth $700 million NZ? That's $35/customer.
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Russell, surely nobody with a intel mac can use the old "it won't work on my mac" excuse anymore? bootcamp?
You still need something to boot into. I understand why people have windows vista, because it comes with the machine as a default. Paying more to put it on a machine?
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Do they have any Thai restaurants down there.
I don't know about Invergiggle, but there's one in Gore. It's owned... or it was the last time I knew anything... by the brother of the guy who owns all... four or five Thai restaurants in Dunedin. Neither of them are anything close to being Thai, but they seem to do OK.
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Hey David,
That bit on the left of your comments, where it says 'From: Christchurch'.
Still technically true, because you went from there, to somewhere else.
But I think Riverton could claim a massive increase in blogging and commenting, statistically, if you changed it.
**REPLY**: Good point -- I've just updated my details. Cheers, DH
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And people go to special parks with ramps and half pipes and jumps and all sorts of rubbish to get their thrills.
Looked to me like the average bike commute should get everyone's heart pumping enough.
They could put that on one of those immersion rides at Disneyland and have everyone sitting on little bike seats with pedals and throw them around with big surround screens and sounds. No one would ride bikes in the real world again.
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I need to put my dad onto her. He still hasn't got the Internet connected. Being one of the very last telephone's with a party line in New Zealand wouldn't have helped.
There's an interesting concept. If you could use the internet on a party line, and one person downloaded something, would everyone get it?
"Hey, I see you were downloading porn last night. Looked pretty good stuff to me! I read an email from your girlfriend... sheez, that was hot too!"
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But we have had discussions in the past about what factors influence whether there are women commentators or not, so I thought I would point out that what obviously a lot of people see as being a trivial detail isn't actually so trivial to a lot of other people.
I see the point you're trying to make Joanna. Not sure if I agree with you or not (I'm torn between the general principle, and the specific of my own mother, who is indeed more technically challenged than my father, but not my much), but the Mum references did slip by me without a thought, and you're right - we should think about these things.
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pushbikes
I don't get why we (not me, but other people) call them push bikes. Surely they're pedal bikes? If you're pushing it everywhere, surely you should just walk? Isn't the useful part that you can sit on them and pedal?
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Really? So rather than simply charge a reasonable rate for voice calls, they teach 'illiterate' 'Africans' a whole new written language so they have a use for cellphones? Surely the pinnacle of free market beneficence...
I don't know what sort of structure cell phone providers have in most places, but in theory txt msgs are infinitely cheaper than voice calls. A txt message is... 160 characters plus a from and to phone number, plus some overhead? A one second voice call uses heaps more bandwidth than that.
Maybe the reason they're using txt rather than voice is because the pricing structure is much better for them, because the company has reflected their costs.