Hello from Seattle??
Joel from Joel On Software put up a recent post commenting on the back of an ipod.
He thinks that the “Designed in California” is a good thing.
A good thing?? I guess it might to someone from California. It just sounds tacky to me.
I will agree with him on one point. Guess what’s on the back of the Zune?
Hello from Seattle?? WTF is with that!
I think the Blue Monster has a long way to go…
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Hothouse & Peer to Peer Lending
Hothouse have put up a podcast on Peer to Peer lending. It is an interview with Linda Smith, Simon van Wyk (founder of HotHouse) and Charis Palmer (editor of Online Banking Review)
DISCLOSURE: I am a Project Manager with a competitor to Hothouse – IT Easy. A client of ours is developing a Peer to Peer Lending product.
Its a funny sort of thing to listen to. I’m not sure who their audience is. Everytime I have mentioned Peer to Peer lending, I have to explain just what it is.
They also talk about “wasabi”. What is that???
From what I can figure out, Linda Smith is the journalist who put this together. It just appears to me like something that was slapped together at the last moment.
After a quick look around I found Charis Palmer did a post on the podcast as well.She even got Wesabi right!
Now I could sit back from the cheap seats and have a rant and say this is why I no longer listen to radio, Cameron Reily talks about this all the time and blah blah blah blah.
But seriously, I’d really like to know. What’s the thought here? Linda seriously, why not put a little more effort in? Who is your audience?
Rock on!
Christian
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iGrin – peer to peer lending has come to Australia!
Well this week, I start on the final phases of the iGrin project.
What’s iGrin? Well, there are two parts:
The Borrower:
You put up a profile, asking how much you would like to borrow, the interest rate and over what period
The Lender:
You review all Borrower details. You can see their credit rating, what they want the loan for, how much they want and the interest rate.
You can select the loan you would like to fund (or part of loan) and bingo bango! You have a deal!
It’s a weird concept but has worked in Europe and the US.
I’ll keep you posted…
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London and the 2012 Olympics
Hugh put up a post on his opinion of London and the 2012 Olympics.
Then Seth put up his.
Its not often I’ll disagree with Seth, but to quote Hugh:
Anybody who’s ever studied the Olympics knows what a huge political and economic undertaking it is.
Olympics is big business! Lots of money, lots of ego, lots of politics.
Seth says:
“It is an invitation to take part and be involved.”
If you are paying money to someone who talks like this, may I suggest you stop? And if you work for someone who talks like this, time to look for a new gig.
My question to Seth is: Who is the target audience here?
My mum doesn’t know what a blog is and has difficulty sending text messages.
But she LOVED it when the Olympics came to Sydney! The Sydney Olympics had a profound impact on her life. She isn’t an athlete, hates sport, but LOVED the spirit!
The invitation to take part and be involved. That is my mother to a tea!
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Who uses them?
Seth put up a post on his blog here. The short version is that he gives an example of Scales (machines to weigh you) and asks “Who uses them?”
My answer? The same people that responds to spam. The same people that read their starsigns. The same people who “know” they are overweight but have done nothing about it.
There is a whole market of people out there who are buying / consuming what you and I might call junk! Just absolute rubbish!!!
Current Affairs shows is another example. Australia has two running each night. SOMEONE has to be watching that…
My question is how can we best serve that part of the market…
Any suggestions?
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Day old sushi
This is gold! From Seth Goddin
Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up.
As the photo below attests, a profit-minded entrepreneur is trying very hard to make ends meet. The problem with this strategy is obvious. It sends the anti-sushi message. Hey, we’re not fresh. We don’t even care so much about fresh.
I ran a quickserv sushi place, I’d write the time the product was created on every single box and would offer a local shelter anything that was more than 55 minutes old. The money they make selling the old sushi can’t possibly make up for the horror the full-price customers feel
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