Archive for March, 2010

Stop designing websites, start designing posters!

A new generation of websites are emerging that look less like websites and more like posters. They are easy to use, visually engaging and most of all different. Sometimes I think I am deeply conflicted. On one side I am always going on about how print is not like the web and web designers need [...]

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Top business figures in bold broadband bid

Several of New Zealand’s key innovators have launched a $900 million bid to build an international fibre cable across the Pacific that aims to give virtually unlimited high speed broadband for New Zealand and Australia. Pacific Fibre includes Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall, TradeMe creator Sam Morgan and software entrepreneur Rod Drury, who said they aim [...]

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New Zealand’s Internet Filter Goes Live

The Department of Internal Affairs’ (DIA) internet filter is now operational and is being used by internet providers (ISPs) Maxnet and Watchdog. Thomas Beagle, spokesperson for online freedom lobby Tech Liberty says he’s “very disappointed that the filter is now running, it’s a sad day for the New Zealand internet”. He told Computerworld the filter [...]

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