New 3News Site

3News has a new site which launched today. Its ok. It’s a news site.

They took away the skyscraper from the entire 3News.co.nz site. Not a one to be found. Awesome. Killed a schedule I had had signed off. That’s ok, I’m sure the Herald appreciated the budget.

Site doesn’t work properly in Chrome. What a surprise. In Firefox it looks like this:

But looks like this in Chrome:
Photos in middle column – pixels
Weather – fallen back and kinda disappeared
Search – freaks out and certainly doesn’t work (which seems weird as they use google as their search engine.)

I know I go on about this, but I love Chrome, it is a great browser. I don’t want to change to suit other people; they should change to work in with me please.

(Might be a little bolshie today, so far this week everything has gone my way, why can’t this continue? Huh?)

Still hating on Chrome

EYEBLASTER! Why do you hate Chrome?? Why? Why? Why?

So some time ago I wrote a blog asking people not to forget about Chrome users, cos (while I do often bitch about them) I would like to see some of the creative ads that are out there. Really, I would. For instance, today, @craigadolph sent out a tweet: “http://twitpic.com/alwsf - cool telecom ad on nzherald. using non standard ads without being offensive. i like. @ros_ashworth” when I tried to check it out, I could not see it. Instead of this:

I got this:
I totally agree with Craig, that is a really nice wallpaper ad, nothing obstructing my view, NZHerald have done a GREAT job of accommodating the creative. This is the best thing I have seen come out of Telecom in ages - and Eyeblaster has killed it for Chrome users.

For some reason or another eyeblaster does not support Chrome for wallpaper ads. One comment from the last post was that it was ok as Chrome only have 2% penetration. Not sure where this number came from (it was an anonymous comment) however I have access to analytics for a variety of websites (including this blog) and the average percentage of Chrome users across 5 very different sites is 5.8% for the last month.

What I think eyeblaster really need to think about is WHO is using Chrome. Is it ma & pa on the farm in Timaru? Or is it the people who are pretty dedicated to Google, and the internet, and (remember, this is MY OPINION) potentially the early adopters? You know, it was not that long ago that everyone used IE, and look at the use of Firefox these days.

Here’s an idea. Rather than take a leaf out of the telco’s books and constantly play catch up with the rest of the world, why not be proactive? No one like someone who is dancing 1 beat behind the music; Chrome use is growing, dance in time with the music and people will pay you more attention.

Interestingly, 10.1% of visitors to my blog view it through Chrome, well higher than the other sites I have analytics access to. Wonder what that means?