I was exploring the site today, I noticed that the dayout website has been adding great content regarding various locations around New Zealand. You can find information on over 80 places with links to audio commentaries.

To have a look at dayout’s content, have a look at the dayout user profile.

You can use Zoomin to advertise your business!

You can put the location of your business on our maps and add a description and photos.
It’s free and easy. You can add your business to the maps in less than 2 minutes.

Let me show you how by adding the SDX office to the ZoomIn site.

1. Go to zoomin.com.au
   Search for your business address. Enter your address in the search bar and press Find or select one of our suggested addresses. e.g.<a href="http://www.zoomin.com.au/australia/qld/brisbane/city/queen+street/300/">300 Queen street city brisbane</a>
2. Sign in with your user name and password into the site.
3. Click on to add a place to the map.
   Enter the name of your Business into the name field and click on Save. The page will refresh with place you have just entered.
4. Click on the Click here to create a description link below the map to add a description of your business.
   
   Enter the description of your in the text box and click Save.
   TIP: You can edit your description again by clicking on the description directly.
5. To add a photo to the place click on to add a photo to the map.
6. You’re done!

Now you have a friendly url to give you your customers to show how they can get to your business.

e.g. http://www.zoomin.com.au/australia/qld/brisbane/city/queen+street/300/-spatial+data+exchange/

We are building a community map site for Australia, we really appreciate your feedback, so drop a email with your thoughts.

John

As we start ZoomIn Australia, I am reminded of one of my favourite quotes.

I find I am so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.’

“Red” Redding, Shawshank Redemption

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

• Find an address or a place
• Explore nearby places

<!—li>
Email a place to a friend
</li–>

• 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