links for 2007-04-30
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Gonna need this
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Lol…this is great.
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Mapping Participation In Activities Forms The Foundation Of A Social Strategy
Browsing archives for April, 2007
links for 2007-04-29
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Another private parking marketplace site…I like this idea.
It’s a free market…
I was surprised to read Jason Calacanis’ comments about “abusive pricing“:
One thing I hate is abusive pricing. Movie theaters charging $4.75 for .15 worth of Diet Coke, New York restaurants that charge $4 for an iced tea without free refills, hotels charging $8 for a tiny pot of coffee and charging you $7 to bring it to your room–you get the idea.
This tweaked me because I don’t think what he describes is abusive pricing. Businesses will take advantage of particular situations to make good profits, which might be annoying to you as a consumer, but thems the breaks when you live in a free market economy…Things are worth what someone will pay for them.
At the end of the day it isn’t about cost it is about value. If you don’t think something isn’t worth what someone is charging then don’t buy it. Simple supply/demand economics, if enough people agree with you then the business will soon go out of business or they’ll adjust their pricing.
Sometimes the supply/demand economics of a certain situation might be unusually balanced in the suppliers favor (eg. the restaurant on the ski field or the hotel coffee shop), but you can’t have it both ways as it suits you.
links for 2007-04-25
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but I don’t love arse so not sure if I would wear one
links for 2007-04-24
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handy
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Local start up focussed on relevance…they have a Firefox plugin that purports to improve the relevance of Google results and an API which I must study some more.
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Dave, just for you I’ve added an optional url field for answerers. Also added a simple answer rating function…a bit clunky but it works.
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I like it.
links for 2007-04-23
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a few links to Henry Rollins stuff on YouTube
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72 million…that’s quite a lot eh Dave ;)
Freaky Styley
I have been a huge Red Hots fan for ages. Of all places I first heard them back in 1990 on a TV1 sports show when some savvy producer used their cover of the Stevie Wonder song, Higher Ground, as a backing track to some skiing footage they were showing. I then read an interview with Flea and Anthony Kiedis in Guitar Player magazine and was hooked. I listened to Mothers Milk on high rotation for ages, brought their back catalogue and every album since, and have seen them play live four times now…and I had literally just finished reading Anthony Kiedis’ autobiography, Scar Tissue, when the current tour schedule was announced, so I was totally primed for it.
I tell you all that as context for my high expectations of last nights concert in Auckland. Unfortunately it wasn’t their finest hour. I think Anthony Kiedis said a total of about 12 words to the audience and really didn’t seem to be as present as I remember of previous concerts. To be fair Flea was his usual energetic self, Chad Smith rock solid (with an awesome drum solo), and John Frusciante played really well also…But, next to Flea, the most energetic guy on stage was the backing guitarist who was clearly stoked to be there and showed it by being totally present.
Of course every band has their good and bad nights so in the band’s defense I should also add that my personal expectations were probably also a bit too heavily based on my love of their old material so the new set list didn’t really blow my hair back…indeed the highlite for me was the scorching rendition of “Catholic School Girls” (from the 1985 album Freaky Styley), followed by “Give it away” (from 1991′s Blood Sugar Sex Magik). I’m bummed I missed out on hearing “Nobody Weird Like Me” and “Higher Ground” (from Mothers Milk) and “Sir Physco Sexy” (From Blood Sugar Sex Magik) which they apparently played on Saturday night.
The other high point for me was realizing that Chad Smith and Will Ferrell could be long lost brothers…Will Ferrell as a wild funk rock drummer, there’s a movie I’d pay to see! Glad to see I’m not the only person to notice the similarity.
Australian Netguide Best Local Sites of the Month
Excellent, Backdoorwine has been included in the latest edition of Australian Netguide as one of their picks for local sites of the month…
Plonk lovers will be very interested in this site. It allows you to buy massively discounted premium wine by the case from Australia’s top winemakers straight from the cellar door. Most of the wine is available due to cancelled export orders and excess stock.
Australian NetGuide Online – Sites & Services Issue. (scroll way down)
links for 2007-04-18
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In private beta…you can bling out your pix with speech bubbles and other cool stuff. Sounds like a more sophisticated variant on the site we launched for HOT at putmeinparadise.co.nz. I still reckon we could take the engine behind that and do a really c
