I just want to wish all the of the finalists of the Wellington Gold awards

Good Luck!

Its been an honour to be in such great company. Congratulations to Star Now, Soltius, and Smartlinx3 for making Cyber Gold shine in 2007.

Its going to be a great night!

If you’re at the awards tonight, come over and say hello!

Hi, I’m a Mac… yeah, I wear jeans and quirky t-shirts. I have an iPod and a MacBook and I look at Windows people with a little pity but the last hour of the keynote presentation at MIX07 has made me tip my hat towards Microsoft. They are really onto something great here.

Enter Silverlight. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. This thing runs on anything and does anything. Literally. I encourage you to view the session videos on the MIX07 site. In particular the video editing software implemented as a web application! And the whole web app is delivered in 50k! It was made by Metaliq and is code named Topbanana.

The development tools are really excellent too. They showed remote debugging (from a Windows box) of a Silverlight application running inside Safari! It’s really slick and impressive and it all actually works.
For the love of all that is sane and pure… they are coding in Ruby, against .NET in TextMate! I think I want to have their children.

Now, Apple do some great tuff but they are concentrating way too much on the desktop. Microsoft
is really pushing the envelope with their new technologies.

Anyone interested in developing rich, web + service based applications should take a look at Silverlight technology. I think that MS re doing some great things in this space and this thing will become very dominant in this market space. Microsoft are even providing, for free, distributed hosting space for Silverlight content.

You can get the Safari/Firefox plug-in here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/downloads.aspx
Once you’ve got the plug-in, restart the browser and have a look at some Silverlight enabled sites here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/default.aspx

By the way, I should say thank you to Microsoft for sending me to this great event. I really appreciate the opportunity to be here and to see new and promising technologies, not to mention meeting nice people and eating great food.

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We have developed a new dynamic content delivery system. Its currently being used to display advertising on Smaps. Eg. If you look at Queen St in Auckland. You’ll find a lot of ASB, National Bank and the Warehouse icons showing on the map. Move around or zoom in on the map and it’ll dynamically update the points.

We’re going to through lots of changes at ProjectX.

Staff

We’ve had a few additions to the team with Tom, Daniel and Tim officially joining the team. Tim and Daniel have joined after successfully completing the Summer of Code.

ProjectX is on the move

We’re flying the coup from Creative HQ. We’ll be moving from into our new office in a couple weeks. We’re moving downtown to the 4th floor of VSA House. We’ll be sharing the floor with Effacy and CBDrealty.

New ProjectX site

We’ve been working on a fresh new ProjectX site. We’re just putting the finishing touches on the site and we’ll be making it live soon.

ProjectX selected as Cyber Gold finalist for Wellington Gold Awards 2007

Tonight, John and I went along to the formal announcement of final nominees for the 2007 Wellington Gold Awards. The event was held at the offices of Bell Gully. Let me tell you folks—what a spectacular view of our beautiful city extends before the 21st floor panoramic windows of this simple, slightly understated yet oh, so sophisticated and cool office space. Their hospitality was top notch too. Great drinks and most exquisite nibbles.

Anyway, after we won two TUANZ awards I was in a bit of a shock. I thought to myself “what the hell did we win these for?”. Tonight was a reminder to me that it’s easy to forget about the whole world while you’re working hard with great people on really fun and interesting projects. It’s easy to get caught in your own little world and not realise that there are people watching us with keen interest. Some are looking at us as a great emerging business, some are looking up to us as technology leaders and some are looking at us as dangerous competition. Tonight I was reminded of all of this as the name of our company was read out in front of Wellington’s most influential business men and women. And I had butterflies in my stomach. Not because I was nervous but because I was excited, honoured and humbled.

We have built our company from nothing, with next to no resources and it feels great to be recognised for our focus, effort, creativity, technological expertise and dedication to provide a great service to local communities and businesses. Being nominated for this awards is very important for the company but it’s also important on a much more personal level. It gives me a great boost and makes me want to work even harder at making ProjectX the success that it is going to be.

As spotted on this years Where 2.0 2007 site

We’ve added a couple of cool features to zoomin.co.nz:

Private Places – now you can set a place that you created to be private, which means that only you will be able to see it.
Or you can set the place to be visible only to a certain group.

To do this, go to a place that you have created (or create a new place), and look on the right hand side of the page. You can alter the privacy settings under the ‘Privacy Settings’ heading.

Video Embedding – now you can embed Youtube and Google Video videos in your comments and place descriptions.

To insert a youtube video:

• find the video in youtube
• copy the URL of the page, it should be something like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46LQd9dXFRU

• paste it into your comment text, between some youtube square brackets, like this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46LQd9dXFRU[/youtube]

You can do the same thing with google videos, by adding something like this to your comments:

[google]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4147604860974111184[/google]

You can see an example of an embedded video at http://zoomin.co.nz/nz/wellington/rongotai/-wellington+airport/