Find a great gift for your dad
Father’s Day is on Sunday 5 September – that’s less than two weeks away!
But don’t panic. Check out our gift finder, and treat your dad to something really cool. Options range from GPS and weather devices to clothing, sports gear and vinyl.
Also, here are a few random things you may not have known (courtesy of the Interweb): More...
Trade Me message boards: "The talk of the towns"
At the weekend, while you were sipping your coffee and perusing the Sunday papers you may have come across a little one-page piece in the Sunday glossy magazine (tucked into the Sunday Star-Times) on the Trade Me message boards. The article, penned by reporter Adam Dudding, stars "Maisy1", and also mentions "kcak", "suferdog26" and "sxcstar".
If you missed it, you can read it by clicking here. Thanks to Adam and the Sunday Star-Times for sending us through the PDF and giving us permission to post it up here.
Browsers and Operating Systems: July 2010
Daniel is one of our developers - not only does he help bring new features, he also compiles these web browsing and operating system stats for us to look over. You can follow him on Twitter over here.
Since we last looked at our browser stats, we’ve seen Internet Explorer 6 creep down another percentage point to 4%, but Internet Explorer 8 gained one to 33%. Meanwhile Chrome and Firefox 3.6 usage has also increased, up one per cent each.
On the operating system side, both Windows XP and Windows Vista continued their steady decline, only to be shown up by Windows 7 which was up three points to 16%. More...
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Issue with bill payment processing
Just a heads up - we are experiencing issues with our bill payment process this morning so internet payments made yesterday haven’t shown up on members' accounts yet. Our technical guys have the hood up and are tinkering with the engine but at this stage we are still unsure of what the problem is. We will post an update once we have this resolved.
Update 11.58am - We have resolved this issue and bill payments are now being processed to accounts. Our apologies for the delay.
Hot hot hot: Home & living number crunch
Today we thought we'd take a look around the 150,000+ listings that comprise the Home & living category. There's an enormous variety in there: everything from wine to flights, to tarot cards, to spa pools, to rose petals for your wedding.
We did a couple of things: we rummaged into some of the specific areas proving popular for buyers browsing and searching, and we also put the magnifying glass on the areas with the highest sell-through rates. (We excluded pets and furniture to keep things as diverse and interesting as we could - head over here if you want to see the 'Most searched dogs'.)
Probably the most eye-catching statistics to emerge were the impressive numbers around firewood - in the past month or so more than 2000 sales have been completed and 50% of all listings have sold! In terms of searches, it was a bit of a surprise that "Steam mop", "Moving overseas", "frangipani" and "shabby chic" were all so high up the list. More...