For all those not going to the gold awards tonight here is the ProjectX’s video by Aston Fiacé, renowned Wellington video and music producer.

Enjoy!

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We’ve been busy in the last couple of days working on our Gold Awards promotional video. We’ve managed to secure Aston Fiacé, renowned Wellington socialite and media promotions expert to direct our promotional film.

For our film, we decided to make the clip in the form of a movie trailer (even with our own ratings screen.) We have drawn influences from a number of great movies, Rocky, Reservoir Dogs, and the Matrix. Within 24 hours we were able to come up with some remarkable ideas. We’ll be releasing the video out on youtube closer to the event. In the mean time I’ll leave you with a quote from our director.

“…Making a movie using iMovie is like building a beautifully designed house but with mud, a spoon and a rusty pitchfork!” - Aston Fiacé

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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.

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We want to make ZoomIn better by making sure our content is up to date, appropriate for the community. We added a tool to flag any content that incorrect, objectionable or violation of copyright.

So if you see any place descriptions, photos or comments that need some attention, flag them and we’ll take care of it.

We value your feedback, any improvements or suggestions are appreciated.

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We want to make ZoomIn better by making sure our content is up to date, appropriate for the community. We added a tool to flag any content that incorrect, objectionable or violation of copyright.

So next time you find any place description, picture or comment that’s not quite right, flag it and we’ll look much sure that its fixed.

We value your feedback, any improvements or suggestions are appreciated.

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.