ProjectX Blog

Yes, Projectx is alive. We have been working hard on a number of projects. Lot’s of cool new stuff coming.

More details next week…

Projectx has been invited to the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose. Ben is speaking at the conference on the Zopto addressing system on Tuesday.

Ben and I now in San Francisco preparing for the conference. Both of us are plugging in via the wonders of free internet that seems to be nearly everywhere.

Thanks to all the support we have received from everyone back home in New Zealand.

We are pleased to be helping people find Amy Banson as she walks for charity from Brisbane to Canberra. You can see where she has been already in the group Amy Banson – Walk with a rose.

Amy is currently catching up a few lost km’s by touring the surrounds of Warwick.
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Check out heaps on information on her blog and loads of pictures on flickr.

We will soon be adding a group of where Amy will be walking as she may be coming to your town soon.

Zoomin has managed to create a bit of noise in blog space.

We’ve got posts from Mr Where 2.0 Nathan Torkington, Will Robertson, Michael Specht and Phil McCluskey

Thanks for all the feedback and encouragement.

Big news today that New Zealand’s telco – Telecom has been forced by Govt to unbundle the local loop. The move has already taken $800m off their share price in Australia.

Finally, we might be able to get affordable high speed broadband in NZ.

A big thank you to the government for making the first move. But, what about Mobile phone pricing ??

As an entrepreneur, I have lots of ideas to create businesses using mobile technology. Unfortunately, the carriers are charging fat margins on their services. As a result, there is no incentive for me to build on any ideas. We only have a few value add services on the phones at the moment like text banking. I’m sorry, but in India 5 years ago we had text banking, sms chat, live feeds from the major portals, loan approvals and more. We’re falling behind the rest of the world!

That’s enough ranting from me.

John

ZoomIn has been named in Rob Zorn’s interesting web sites for May.

Thanks for the link Rob!

ZoomIn has started to hit the radar of the online community.

Blog Mentions from Feet Up (Jim Hughes), Digital Earth Weblog (Andrew Hallam) and Tim Haines.
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Thanks for your comments !

John

Woo Hoo!

We passed 1000 users on Sunday morning – The 1000th user was fodd.

The site is growing fast, we passed 1200 users today, looks like we’ll hit 2000 users by the end of the week!

A big thanks to all our users!

Business week have a nice article on the 8 myths of Software as a service.

Here are the main points:

Here’s my thoughts on Software as a service.

The reality is change is expensive. Software as a service makes it possible to try the software to see if its a fit for your needs. If you have to invest lots of time and resources in some that might work, you have to be prepared to face the fact that you might have brought a lemon.

As the software provider this model works great. We get to focus on the features that our clients actually want. Our focus is on creating value.

Let me know your thoughts on the article.

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Congratulations to Wises on being adwarded the hitwise Online traffic award for travel maps in 2005.

Our thanks also go to Wises for providing us with extra motivation to build the best online map site for New Zealand.