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I just thought I provide a quick summary of various features on ZoomIn.

• Find an address or a place
• Explore nearby places

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• Make a comment about a place [members only]
• Send a private message to a friend [members only]
• Upload a photo to a place [members only]
• Create a new place [members only]

• Join a group [members only]

• Create a new group [members only]
• Add a place to a group [members only]

• Upload a photo of yourself [members only]

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.

ZoomIn Australia is up and running. All the usual ZoomIn goodness plus our Maps API.

Check it out!

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

We’ve added another new feature – Place counts.

Now you can see how popular various places are on the site.

e.g.

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As always we appreciate your feedback. Drop us an email if you have any comments or suggestions.

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

Thanks for the link Rob!

John-Daniel Trask has just written a post on Zoomin. John-Daniel was asking about some information to help budding entrepreneuers. I thought I’d offer some suggestions to help get kickstart people into starting a new business.

If you’re thinking of starting a business there is plenty of organisations in Wellington that can assist. Here are a few links to get you started.

• Business incubators to help you turn ideas to reality: Creative HQ, Fashion HQ, T-up
• Business Help: Biz Wellington, Positively Wellington Business, Business Mentors
• VC Funding – The money: Movac, No 8. Ventures
• Govt Grants – Put your tax dollars to work: Foundation for Research Science and Technology, NZ Trade and Enterprise
• Networking – Connect with other businesses: Unlimited Potential, Wellington Chamber of commerce

That’ll get you started.

Remember to talk to lots of people, networking and relationships are the key.

Come on Wellington get started, become the next Trade Me !

I would like to introduce Spatial Data eXchange . We are the Australian partners of ProjectX and are pleased to offer the mapping system behind Zoomin Australia . With the Zoomin Mapping System you can convert addresses into locations (Geocode) and then map them.

There are many applications where visualising locations can add benefit to your customers and we give you the power to add this to your web site. For more information check out the developers area .

Angus Scown

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.
Podcasts: Gday World

Thanks for your comments !

John

Hi Everybody,

I just wanted to tell you all that now you can send private messages to any member of the ZoomIn community. Simply locate the profile of the person you want to talk to and click on “Mail this person” action.

To read your own messages click on the little envelope icon located in the top right corner along your sign-in status. If the envelope has a number next to it then you’ve got that many new messages waiting for you.

You can also access your inbox and sent messages from your profile page.

cheers,
tomek