Category: Agent K and the rest of the world

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Travel mashup raffle

by kai on 03/07/2007

And now - as a reward for those who read my last post, a small competition with a nice price to win: A Total Training DVD "Total Training for Adobe Flex 2" hosted by James Talbot How to get it? The first person to send me an email to kai (at) thisdomainhere answering correctly the following questions is going to win this DVD. 1. What's the reason for this trip? 2. What are departure city, the…

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Air NZ: Google maps mashup

by kai on 03/07/2007

Air NZ recently seem to work with a few people who know what they're doing. After releasing their nice "How far can you go?" RIA, I've just found a (beware of hype terminology :-) mashup using Google maps on their website. Sadly I can't link to it, as I'd have to provide you with my booking reference - but the story is bascially that after making a booking with them, one is able to look at "my…

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Air NZ "How far can I go": Innovative RIA!

by kai on 26/06/2007

After bitching about the poor online booking facilities of House of Travel, Flightcentre and STA Travel NZ yesterday, I'm happy to show you a cool, innovative and rich sales support tool by Air New Zealand: "How far can I go?"

hfcig.jpg

It's easy to use and motivates potential customers to book a flight for a vacation or the occasional weekend trip with them ("Hey darling, let's spend $200 for flights and see what we could do with it!").

Well done, Air NZ, well done!

Travel sites in New Zealand

by kai on 25/06/2007

The other day Ashley McKee was writing about hotwire.com, a travel site that - well... - didn't get the concept of multi-city flight bookings quite right. Bascially they're offering the option and then forward their customers to expedia.com - why would you do that? To show you that hotwire.com is not even at the lower end of what travel sites throughout the world have to offer, let's have a look…

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Flickr - this is wrong

by kai on 15/06/2007

I haven't posted for quite a while - but the following annoys me that much, that I have to tell the world about it. Flickr - our wonderful world-spanning web 2.0 image gallery has introduced content filtering recently. Well done, I'm a big fan of that idea. User are supposed to classify their images into one of three categories, "restricted" is the tightest of those. As I said, that's fine. This…

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Mail from Japan

by kai on 01/05/2007

Earlier this week I've got a courier delivery from Japan. You might wonder what that could have been - and actually it was an issue of the Japanese "des" magazine. When being in Korea the other week, I was catching up with Ken and he told me that he ages ago took a photo of me at a MAX conference and that it was published in this magazine :)

Kai in Japanese magazine @ flickr

And Ken, thx so much for shipping it over, awesome mate!

Handyfinder 2.0

by kai on 17/03/2007

Just a few days ago I've learned that Vodafone Germany has released the version 2.0 of their Handyfinder RIA. I've posted various entries on this type of Flash-based Rich Internet Application back in 2003 and 2004 when my employer (msg at.NET) at that time invented and built that tool for Vodafone in Germany the first time. Now, 4 years later, Vodafone Germany apparently decided to re-vamp their…

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Ramping up my dev environment

by kai on 05/02/2007

I really rather not touch my development environment unless it's really necessary. Yesterday it was necessary: the CFEclipse team has released CFEclipse 1.3 final (which I really, really, really recommend to each single CF developer - I can't imagine going back to Homesite or even Dreamweaver), Adobe has released Flex Builder 2.0.1 earlier this year (and one of my customers needed to have some…

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Interesting article about myspace.com

by kai on 02/02/2007

From a ColdFusion/Java point of view, I found the following summary of MySpace issues and their tight hook into the Microsoft .NET space pretty interesting ;)

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4308

The referenced (and more detailed article) can be found at:
http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=198614,00.asp

They are both very good reads and pose a bunch of questions...

Customize your card(s)

by kai on 17/01/2007

A friend of mine has started a new business - card-shark.de. Basically it is about trick playing cards for magicians - those type of cards that have two diffent card types and values of the front side, a totally different back etc.

It's actually pretty cool and there seems to be a rather big demand. And you can also configure your own personal trick/magic cards with a nice rich internet application (click on "Online Card-Builder) in the navigation.

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