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More news…

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Reuben Swartz has written a piece on ZoomIn in this weeks Infotech Zooming in on Investment after re-jig.

Thanks for the article Reuben.

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ZoomIn V2.0 in the News

Friday, November 24th, 2006

The new ZoomIn is the news. Peter Griffin of NZ Herald has written a piece on the ZoomIn v2.0 – ZoomIn puts dynamic mapping on the map.

Thanks to Peter for the article.

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ZoomIn is alive again…

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

ZoomIn is back in action again!

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Ideas starters vs Idea Killers

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Scott Berkun has written a couple of posts on creative thinking and they highlight how certain language that can wither help or hinder the creative process.

From Scott’s posts here are his list of Idea Starters vs Idea Killers

Idea Starters

  • Great idea, keeping going with it.
  • What do you need to make this work?
  • How can I help you?
  • Who’s support do you need?
  • I’ll stay as late as you do to write this proposal tonight.
  • How much time will it take to flesh this out?
  • Good, but lets make a prototype
  • Here’s a blank check and the corner office
  • Drop what you’re doing and focus on this
  • What can you add to this to make it better?
  • What should change to help make this happen?
  • Lets run with this and see where it goes
  • This rocks!
  • This has potential.
  • Make it happen.
  • What can we cut to make room for this?
  • What’s the next step?
    		• Idea Killers

  • We tried that already
  • That never works
  • Would you like a pony
  • Looks like ass
  • You’re fired
  • We will actively work against you
  • (Laughter)
  • Not in our budget
  • Not an interesting problem
  • We don’t have time
  • Execs will never go for it
  • Out of scope
  • But its the law
  • Too blue sky / Holy grail
  • This train is on fire
  • Wont make enough $
  • Not in our business
  • Its Non performant (engineering)
  • What are you on?
  • Can we get someone with a brain in here?
  • That isn’t what people want
  • No response at all

    • This make you think about how your language can foster new ideas!

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    Some customers are experiencing problems accessing ZoomIn

    Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

    We’ve been struck by Murphy this morning. One of our disk on our servers has been giving problems this morning . We have reverted to our back-up server.

    Unfortunately, dns is playing up so some of you are struggling to get to ZoomIn. We are working to resolve the problem asap.

    Note: These problems do not affect the ZoomIn Mapping System or the API.

    ZoomIn Team

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