Yours is a better site, James, what more do you need? Better to fight it out on the bandwaves rather than politics otherwise you'll end up like the Americas Cup. You're up against Judith Tizard by the looks (see nzlive/blogs). If you are good at websites, just stick to that and forget the politics. You'll lose badly and go down hurting. Looks like you've already let it get to you though. It will damage your reputation and you'll look like a whinger, oops, maybe too late, dunno. You could get google admin to delete this thread :)
Good luck. On Apr 29, 11:01 am, Paul Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's definitely not what we're saying at all; you've listed three > > commercial websites we're happily competing with. > > Incorrect - Newzealand.com is run by Tourism New Zealand, which is a crown > entity:http://www.tourismnewzealand.com/tourism_info/about-us/corporate-over... > > Newzealand.com is not a commercial enterprise - it's aimed at increasing > travel to new zealand to benefit the economy as a whole with no direct > benefit to Tourism New Zealand itself > > Having the government with its limitless public purse start up in > > > competition, attempt to duplicate your business model, and refuse to > > co-operate despite a mandate to share though is quite different. > > The government and it's *cough* 'limitless coffers offers a whole range of > information, aggregating much of it from disparate > sources:http://newzealand.govt.nz/ > > It also has a vested interest in promoting NZ culture, heritage, arts and > tourism. I'd be more worried if the govt was doing nothing to promote these > things. > > I don't mean to come across as rude - you've built Eventfinder and are > running a successful business from it - for that you get my respect. > However, this is clearly an emotive subject with opposing views and your > commercial interest makes you far from impartial I'm afraid. > > Regards, > Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
