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Resn takes home five FWA awards in January
A haul of five Favourite Website Awards last month has left the smug folk at Resn just a little smugger.
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Are SPCA dogs Top Gear material?
Off the cuff comment by Top Gear presenter fuels speculation that the show is coming to New Zealand to film our talented dogs, however the agency behind the campaign says it’s pure speculation.
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YouTube reportedly contemplating paid subscription channels
Bad news for flailing media companies, you’ll soon be competing for subscription dollars with the third largest social network – YouTube.
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Google Plus edges Twitter, is now second most active social network
Watch out Facebook, Google+ is on your behind. Somebody’s using the untrendy service, because it’s now the number two social network in the world, says one study.
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Twitter’s video app Vine in hot water for porn cockup
If Rule 34 of the internet is “If it exists, there’s porn of it”, then surely Rule 35 is “If it can host porn, it will host porn”, a lesson Twitter’s new video service, Vine, has learned today.
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Media Design School uses zombie apocalypse as enrolment tool
Auckland tertiary institute builds gamer community to attract students to its new game development degrees. And zombies.
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Quora says it has the answer to blogging
Quora asks if we need another web blogging platform, then answers its own question with a yes.
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Actual Facebook Graph Searches are actually terrifying
Facebook’s new Graph Search hasn’t rolled out to all of the social network’s one billion users yet, but a new meme shows the privacy horrors that awaits us when it does.
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Radio New Zealand claims top ratings for 2012
Public radio broadcaster tops the charts for second year running.
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Kim Dotcom’s mega media circus
Kim Dotcom says he’s over saturated the New Zealand media, and is worried New Zealanders will think he’s manipulating journos. But who is using whom?
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TVNZ launches new Seven Sharp Facebook page, but keeps Close Up’s likes
Friday Forum: Is it ethical to keep the likes from an old Facebook page when you rebrand a product?
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Dotcom scoops mega PR points
Free ice cream, t-shirts, Kim Dotcom and the chance to attend the launch of mega.co.nz drew a crowd of more than 200 people outside of the Giapo ice cream parlour in Auckland yesterday.
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Facebook wants a piece of that delicious search engine pie
The 1 billion-strong social network launches a social-powered search engine. Is this where your next SEM dollar will go?
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Kiwi game developer hits 1 million mark in three days
Hawke’s Bay man creates iOS game from home which has taken the app world by storm, now sitting pretty in the Apple App charts.
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Samsung deal brings TVNZ Ondemand to smart TVs
Shortland Street fans rejoice. Now you can do your on-demand catching up with the gang from the big screen. Mobile screen fans to get some love in February.
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TVNZ’s sharp new show gets air date
Latest current affairs show on New Zealand TV landscape promises to tell the news with a bit of a laugh. Don’t we already have 7 Days for that?
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Publicis Mojo leaves creditors $16m in the lurch
Following news of its liquidation in a classic Christmas dump last year, a new report shows the agency owes its employees, the tax man, and trade partners a significant amount of cash – and it looks like it doesn’t have money in the bank to pay it all.
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Kim Dotcom’s Mega Christmas ruins Santa for children, but provides plenty of laughs for the grown ups
Twas the night before the night before Christmas, and Rudolph is hungover in the corner. Mrs Claus gives a bourbon fuelled rant about how her life with Santa is no fairy tale. She stumbles off stage, but not before threatening Rudolph with a shit-stained dildo. Thus ending the opening scene of Mega Christmas, playing at the Basement Theatre in Auckland this week.
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Google’s Zeitgeist searches for the spirit of 2012
Search giant Google has released the results of its 2012 top search trends, including the most searched for terms in New Zealand this year.
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Donate Your Desktop adds eight charities to its line up
New Zealand-based fundraising startup Donate Your Desktop has partnered with eight new charities, with the hope that added choice will bring in new users and boost struggling advertising sales.
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Panasonic and Trade Me launch TV app
Panasonic and Trade Me have teamed up to take advantage of televisions becoming more and more computer-like, with the launch of the Trade Me app for Panasonic Smart Viera TVs.
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MetService redesign aimed at the avid weather watcher
MetService is launching a redesigned website this afternoon to bring more of its labyrinth of meteorological data up to the user level.
The new site also gives advertisers an interesting proposition: bid for ads next to different weather types.