Week 3 – Search Engines
This week we covered search engines, the obvious example being Google. Interesting side note – I used to sell search engines to companies around New Zealand, specifically the french EXALEAD CloudView...
View ArticleWeek 4 – Advertising
This week we covered Advertising. We looked at some of the older types of digital advertising, such as banners, and how to determine when to place them. Banner advertising relies on users randomly...
View ArticleWeek 5 – Recommender Systems
This week we looked at Recommender Systems. We all see Recommender Systems everywhere on the Internet, the big ones being Amazon.com recommending “Other products you may like”, and Netflix recommending...
View ArticleWeek 6 – Social Media Technologies
This week we looked at social media technologies, covering an overview of social media technology, social media graphs, finding network communities, and similarity of nodes. First, we looked...
View ArticleWeek 7 – Cloud Computing
This week’s focus was on Cloud Computing, a topic of dear interest to me. The first thing we were tasked to do was discuss which business models appear appropriate for the cloud. In order to do that,...
View ArticleWeek 8 – Big Data and Hadoop
This week we covered Big Data and Hadoop, a topic of dear interest to me, as I try and understand what to do with all the electricity smart meter data reads we receive as a company. We used to receive...
View ArticleWeek 9 – Data Warehouses
This week we covered data warehouses, with a bit of a focus on the relationship with big data. A few questions posed were: What changes occur in the presence of big, fast, possibly unstructured data?...
View ArticleWeek 10 – E-Business Architectures
This week we discussed E-Business Architectures, a topic of personal interest to me as an Enterprise Architect! The first principle we covered was the divide and conquer approach to IT. Really anything...
View ArticleWeek 11 – Mobile Commerce and Location-based Services
This week we looked at technologies for m-commerce, location-based services, and m-commerce. The review questions for this week are: Discuss the attributes, benefits, and fundamental drivers of...
View ArticleWeek 12 – Internet of Things and Ubiquitous computing
This was the final week of MSYS559, E-Business Technologies, a Masters level paper from the University of Waikato. This week we looked at upcoming trends around the Internet of Things, Ubiquitous...
View ArticleSofitel Wellington Review
After a year closed due to a fire, we check out the reopened Sofitel Wellington hotel. The hotel is on Bolton Street, which is just off The Terrace at the Parliament end. Good location, and I’ve been...
View ArticleQantas Oneworld Classic Flight Award taxes
Taxes are additional (and so are change fees) Airlines give you a great deal, but they don’t cover the fees that you have to pay. For my flight, I had to pay $1082 in taxes. For example, a flight from...
View ArticleQantas Classic Flight Award Booking Quirks
It’s easy to think that booking award flights is as simple as just going to Expedia and finding a flight that’s available there, and saying I’ll take that flight. But booking award tickets has some...
View ArticleAir New Zealand’s Economy or Premium Economy, worth it?
Over the last two weeks I’ve had the luxury of flying Air New Zealand’s Economy and Premium Economy service between Auckland and Houston, on their Boeing 787 Dreamliner. So let’s review the service....
View ArticleAir NZ’s Skycouch review + navigating Japanese Airports – Fukuoka Day 1
After a long flight on Air New Zealand’s Skycouch, I’m sitting on a Tatami mat in the lounge of my Airbnb. It sounds authentic and interesting, and it is, but I just can’t get quite comfortable. This...
View ArticleWandering around Ohori Park, and shopping up a storm in Tenjin – Fukuoka Day 2
It was Sunday, our first full day in Fukuoka, and we decided to go for a walk. About four km away from Gion where we’re staying, is Ohori Park (大濠公園, Ōhori-kōen), a park in the middle of Fukuoka. I...
View ArticleMarinoa Outlet shopping, and hubris leading to my downfall – Fukuoka Day 3
Have you ever had a moment where you’re doing something to keep you safe, and think, nah, this is lame, it’ll never happen to me. And then it happened. Nothing too dramatic – I just broke my camera,...
View ArticleNanzoin Temple and Eggs’n’Things Fukuoka
Coffee in Fukuoka Finding a good coffee spot is always a priority for Mrs. Kenning before checking out the Nanzoin Temple, and today, I suggested we try out FUK Coffee, FUK being the airline code for...
View ArticleUminonakamichi Marine World & Asahi Brewery
Is visiting aquariums OK? On our way to Uminonakamichi, I had mixed feelings about aquariums. On the one hand, it’s always interesting seeing animals that you don’t normally get a chance to see. But,...
View ArticleWellington Airport dash to Sydney flying Qantas
Wellington Airport At the last minute, Kathryn and I decided to head to Sydney from Wellington Airport, so we could tick something off her bucket list. And so, we ended up booking tickets at midnight...
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