I’ve been trying to find a database of New Zealand postal codes (aka zip codes), names, relativity data (which codes border on a given code), and ideally handy geo coding data so they can be plotted on a map (like this for the US). I’d also love this for Australia, but I’d settle for NZ first.
Can anyone out there help?…Bueller?
Actually it was Thursday which really made it.
I’m a bit late posting this, but we had a bit of a win on Thursday night at the NetGuide People’s Choice Web Awards. This is pretty much the top honour for New Zealand web sites (being a public vote and all), and we won the 2006 award for New Zealand’s best travel site, sweet.
Kudos to the team who’ve been working hard on the site for the past 12 months, including (but not limited to) Hilary, TimR, TimP, Jane, Debbie (and the customer center team), uber consultant Duncan, and Netconcepts.
We won this against bigger competitors like Air New Zealand and Zuji, so we’re rightly proud of the achievement. It does mean through that these guys will be going all out for 2007, so our work is cut out for us…bring it on.
Dude! Jajah web activated telephony looks killer. They offer similar rates as Skype, but they’ve made it easy enough that absolutely anyone can use it.
No client to download and install, just set up an account on the site and use the web site to activate your call (you can try it free)…the system will call your landline number (where ever you are) and then connect you to the other number anywhere in the world.
Brilliant in theory and I hope they can iron out the wrinkles reported in the forums…looks like they’ve had some trouble with connections. Perhaps something to do with peak loads because it worked OK for me this afternoon NZ time.
Now we just need an API.
PS – If I were eBay, I might be giving myself a swift kick in the pants right now. If they can prove it scales I reckon this would have been a better solution for their community than Skype.
