New Zealand television review site Throng has today launched a world-first web 2.0 television listings format. In development for more than two years, the new format replaces the traditional TV guide grid and makes it easier to find what is on at a glance. Shows are displayed based on what is on now, what starts in the next hour and what is on in prime time tonight. Shows are weighted according to popularity on throng.co.nz. Members of the website throng.co.nz personalise their listings to highlight their favourite shows and hide ones they’re not interested in.
“We’ve thought long and hard about TV listings and what we’d like them to be. We found traditional listings hard to scan because they’re organised by channel and you can easily miss things. We’ve removed the clutter and made your choice simpler,” says co-founder Regan Cunliffe, also at Cre8d design.
See the new look listings from today at throng.co.nz.
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The All Blacks will win the 2007 Rugby World Cup!!
I Live In New Zealand, NOT Australia…And Yes, They Are Different
I was a Kiwi Kid!
I call New Zealand home
Bring Back Georgie Pie
Whakahuihui (Hui) Vercoe, Anglican Bishop of Aotearoa from 1981 to 2004 and Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia from 2004 to 2006, has died in Rotorua after a struggle with brain cancer.
Vercoe will be remembered as a radical, for his advocacy for the Maori people, speaking out in front Queen Elizabeth in 1990 over the honouring of the Treaty of Waitangi, and supporting the rights of Maori Vietnam veterans affected by Agent Orange. He was one of the leaders behind the development of three tikanga in the Anglican Church in 1992, providing space for Maori and Polynesian people to develop their own expressions of church without the imposition and control of the Pakeha wing.
Hui will also be remembered as a conservative. In his first speech as Archbishop Vercoe was touted in the New Zealand media as a bishop with a vision for a world ‘without gays’.
I remember Vercoe mostly for his role in the CCANZ (Conference of Churches of Aotearoa New Zealand), tirelessly working with other church leaders for social justice and peace.
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