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March 11, 2010

Welcome to Planet 2010

Planet 2010 is an expo, conference show casing New Zealands key companies, technology and experts in the tech and communications space

 

I'm here blogging and tweeting all day so follow us using the hashtag #planet2010

Feel free to tweet questions and if you're here be sure to hunt me down in the @Zendesk orange tee 

More to come - Buzz Aldrin is the Key Note speaker and about to come on stage.

 

Cheers

 

 

 

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March 7, 2010

Ideas to action - Crowdsourced Flat Hunting #socialmedia

Last night I was on the bus on my way to Queen st in Auckland thinking about finding a new place for Jen and I to live. We need a bigger place as we have been working from home so we don't have much of a lounge anymore.

I keep asking my self "who can I ask to help find us a flat", find us a flat, FINDUSAFLAT! Thats it! #brainwave

I thought "I wonder if that domain is available?"

Being on the bus can be quite productive,....when you have an iPhone!

I opened Godaddy.com and did a quick search for findusaflat.com

It was available...I mean surely someone would have thought of that one, but no I was in luck!

I bought it and this afternoon in all of 60 min I had created a Posterous site and mapped the domain and posted up our Mission.

The idea is "Crowdsourced flat hunting". Whether you know of a friend or family member trying to find good tenants or a real estate agent looking for a little extra cash this site could become the ultimate flat hunters connector.

We have also bought findusaflatmate.com and if the idea sticks I could be a project worth developing.

At this stage people who want to list their flat request you can just email help@findusaflat.com and ill add you as a contributor so you can post up your details.

We are offering a $300 prize to the person who refers us to or finds us our next flat.

What do you think? Could this have legs? Guess it depends on our success with it to start with... Anyway would love to hear your thoughts

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November 6, 2009

Fobbed off at the door for being a bloke!

So I've been pondering this situation that we experienced last night while bar hopping in Auckland and decided its worthy of a post and some debate.

We (a group of 6 guys) were enjoying cruising around a few bars for a mates birthday. We're not louts, rugby nuts or brawling hooligans, but respectable people with cash to spend on a good night out.

After the party at the Longroom Bar we went down to the Ponsonby Social Club and were greeted at the door by two burly bouncers who calmly said "Sorry guys there's already lots of guys inside, either get some girls or go elsewhere". My jaw dropped! Sexist discrimination based on whom was already in the bar. As if I have any control over that. What a joke. Girls don't buy drinks, they get the guys to. Bars want to make money...right?

Anyway I stood back, cracked a few jokes with the bouncer and sent a tweet, the bouncer saw the messages I was writing and let us all in. AND he was full of codswallup, there were plent of women enjoying themselves, it was hardly a mens club.

So we moved on to the Flight Lounge and were politely told the same thing, "Sorry guys, we'll only let you in if you have a couple of girls with you". I mean, I almost thought about just walking up the road to ask a few stragglers to come in with us and then thought better of it. Hell if they don't want our business we'll happily go somewhere that does

So is this fair, reasonable or just a bouncer "trick of the trade" to manage the room?

I think its a disgraceful case of arrogance and discrimination. I'll still go to those bars but I'm certainly going to tell the owners what I think. 

If you are a bar owner and you're not getting enough ladies to the bar, thats your problem not mine. And don't fob me off because of your own inadequate marketing and promotions.

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