About Luigi Cappel
I am into everything. I am a songwriter looking to become fulltime one day if I don’t become a poker professional and the latter is very unlikely:) I work for a mapping company and am involved in all sorts of projects from car navigation to fleet management, route optimisation, maps and web mapping API’s for web sites, PDA’s and mobile phones.
I’m a futurist (member of the World Future Society) and have been involved in many firsts including the introduction of EFTPOS, Retail Side Scanning, Mobile email, PDA’s with scanners and touch screensfor couriers and much more. I am also Marketing Director for Readingit Corporation an eBook Publisher.
I love technology both for itself and for its ability to help people work and play smarter rather than harder.
I am the author of Unleashing the Road Warrior and have written for many magazines and publications as well as technology white papers. I have over the years held positions including President of the NZ Wireless Forum, Vice President of the NZ Sales & Marketing Institute, President of the Glenfield Music Centre, President of Auckland Landyacht Club and run my own businesses including Mission Control (A wireless computing consultancy) and the NZ Smartphone & PDA Academy.
I have chaired and spoken at ITC industry conferences from Paris to Johannesburg to Auckland New Zealand and many more.
I’m exploring things like location based proximity marketing, location based games and pretty much anything that takes my fancy. I enjoy writing and have an opinion on most things:)
You will find my songs on lots of websites, mostly for free, so get in quick before I am famous and they cost much more. If you are an artist looking for a song, give me a yell. I had a podcast called A Kiwi Songwriter (now suffering from podfade) and a blog about Songwriting. Did I mention that I am a keen amateur photographer, you will find me on sites like Buzznet and less often on Flickr too. You will also find me on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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About Luigi Cappel
I am into everything. I am a songwriter looking to become fulltime one day if I don’t become a poker professional and the latter is very unlikely:) I work for a mapping company and am involved in all sorts of projects from car navigation to fleet management, route optimisation, maps and web mapping API’s for web sites, PDA’s and mobile phones.
I’m a futurist (member of the World Future Society) and have been involved in many firsts including the introduction of EFTPOS, Retail Side Scanning, Mobile email, PDA’s with scanners and touch screensfor couriers and much more. I am also Marketing Director for Readingit Corporation an eBook Publisher.
I love technology both for itself and for its ability to help people work and play smarter rather than harder.
I am the author of Unleashing the Road Warrior and have written for many magazines and publications as well as technology white papers. I have over the years held positions including President of the NZ Wireless Forum, Vice President of the NZ Sales & Marketing Institute, President of the Glenfield Music Centre, President of Auckland Landyacht Club and run my own businesses including Mission Control (A wireless computing consultancy) and the NZ Smartphone & PDA Academy.
I have chaired and spoken at ITC industry conferences from Paris to Johannesburg to Auckland New Zealand and many more.
I’m exploring things like location based proximity marketing, location based games and pretty much anything that takes my fancy. I enjoy writing and have an opinion on most things:)
You will find my songs on lots of websites, mostly for free, so get in quick before I am famous and they cost much more. If you are an artist looking for a song, give me a yell. I had a podcast called A Kiwi Songwriter (now suffering from podfade) and a blog about Songwriting. Did I mention that I am a keen amateur photographer, you will find me on sites like Buzznet and less often on Flickr too. You will also find me on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Luigi Cappel’s Blog- Dead zones in the ocean November 16, 2009I was talking with someone recently about the Waikato River water that provides some 10% of the drinking water in Auckland. This was approved despite much protest, on the basis that Metrowater would only use it in emergencies. I suspect that Mayor George Wood at the time knew that it would end up being turned [...]Luigi Cappel
- The power of other people’s opinions or bias October 30, 2009I had the opportunity to attend the Time Convention in Auckland, New Zealand today, which was a great opportunity to step out of my normal day and have time to think. I didn’t learn much, but it did remind me about things I know I should be doing, but don’t spend enough time at. I [...]Luigi Cappel
- Blogfade and Android Mobile October 22, 2009First of all I must apologise for the Blogfade. Over the last few weeks I’ve bought a new house and sold my own one which has caused a lot of stress and taken a lot of my time. Assuming that my sale goes through tomorrow, I wil be moving this weekend and life will get [...]Luigi Cappel
- New Zealand gets TomTom Car Navigation on iPhone first! August 17, 2009OK, we were only ahead of Australia by a couple of hours, but we need everything we can get. Maybe we should give some iPhones to the All Blacks to help them find the try line in the TriNations and Bledisloe on Saturday, but that’s another story. As another aside, when I wrote TriNations, my [...]Luigi Cappel
- What the HAL? August 8, 2009I love the way Japan and Korea are developing robotics. I used to say that the Japanese were great engineers but not that great at innovating, I think that perhaps those thoughts should be banished to the dim past. I’ve written a few blogs on robotics, such as about the plans in Korea to have a [...]Luigi Cappel
- Another Reason Why Newspapers Will Fade Away July 6, 2009This morning for the 2nd time in 2 weeks my NZ Herald wasn’t delivered. This happened a couple of times previously with the Sunday Herald which was actually the one I used to enjoy the most. After the 2nd time I cancelled it. Two weeks ago when my Saturday Herald didn’t turn up, I tried [...]Luigi Cappel
- Coming to a School Near You: Swine Flu June 14, 2009This morning I was reading a column in the Sunday Herald by radio talkshow host Kerre Woodham saying that SwineFlu is a load of hogwash. Half an hour ago I was at the checkout at my local Foodtown and overheard a girl saying that she was told not to go to school next week at [...]Luigi Cappel
- It’s Official Swine Flu is a Pandemic June 11, 2009In the last hour or so, WHO has announced that we now have a Pandemic, the first in 41 years as infections have climbed over 30,000 people. As I said in my previous blog, many people still have their heads in the sand, thinking it won’t happen to them, but pretty much everyone I know [...]Luigi Cappel
- New Powers for Medical Health Officers over Swine Flu June 9, 2009I should have seen this one coming from a mile away. While a lot of people still have their heads in the sand, the New Zealand Government have made Swine Flu a notifiable disease. In itself, that just makes sense, but in fact according to a NZ Herald story this morning, this means that they [...]Luigi Cappel
- Proximity Based Marketing and Trust June 9, 2009In a previous blog I talked about how brands such as Subway could use Location Based Services (LBS) to promote their products to school students as a next step from their service where you can text your order through to the store. Location (x3) used to be the mantra of the retail industry, especially when [...]Luigi Cappel
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THANK YOU for the very awesome comment you left on the review!!! That was just a really sweet thing to do – thank you… xxxxxxxxx
GREAT blogs….you just can’t stop writing can you?
Thanks again – you made me smile!!!
Kylie xxx
You’re welcome Kylie, no I can’t stop writing:)It’s who I am:)
Re ‘will New Orleans be the first major city to be abandoned because of global warming?’ Im next…..my house sits on the flood zone already. Water has soaked up my back yard. Joe may even deck ALL around the house so that he can walk to his Vege garden. Hmmm. Its not a good time to live on Auckland’s North Shore. Truly doomed.
Harriet, if it’s not salt water you could consider hydroponics or perhaps you could do some fishing from the deck.
One of the scary things is that most of Auckland sits on clay and when it gets waterlogged it turns to mush and everything on top will slide off. That happened to a cul de sac a couple of hundred metres from where I live and half the road has slipped away.
I would be very careful buying property right now.
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