Access Granted NZ

Chris created Koha and has spent the last 17 years refining his creation. Chris has worked for a few companies but his core focus has been Koha throughout his career.
Koha is a fully featured, scalable library management system. Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies worldwide.
Chris is a "stealth Maori" and he explains how he uses his Maori culture around the world – funny story.
An amazing open source tale.
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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!
Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.
All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz
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We have Mike, Raj, Mauricio and new addition to the team AJ (graduate of the NZ Radio Training School) sitting around a table at Golding Free Dive we discuss “is radio still a thing” and what's happening to broadcast TV?
Nostalgia
We have a nostalgic moment when talking about Palm (“Palm is coming back!”) and Windows in the 90’s and how things used to be.
“The support process is broken”
We discus many many fails and interesting stories in tech at the moment including but not limited to:
Ring doorbell
Online back up fails.
Microsoft Band vs Fitbit vs other Kick Starter fails
Why are apps/services disappearing faster and faster, without the ability to get your data out.
We live in a disposable tech society
Facebook Customer services support issues
Adobe Customer services support issues
Data over-charges
Google hardware issues
Bonus fail
Fake taxi image used on a political campaign (using Google images)
So grab your favourite beverage and join us for a funny and insightful conversation.
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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!
Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.
All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz
Follow and Like us on:
https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZ
https://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZ
https://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcast
Subscribe to the show however you want:
https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/

It's been a long time coming as w catch up with our friend Mauricio Freitas (@freitasm) from Geekzone for another System Error session.
Topics of the day:
Why movie sequels are crap?
DVD’s vs streaming services?
Whats happened to Twitter?
The Microsoft Linkedin acquisition
ISP issues continue...
Bonus: Amazon gave their user some money back.
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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!
Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.
All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz
Follow and Like us on:
https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZ
https://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZ
https://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcast
Subscribe to the show however you want:
https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/

Dave Moskovitz (@davemosk) is well known in the start up scene and has been an enabler in the community for many years. We discuss many things including our tech culture, diversity, the community, immigration and what traits you need to succeed in business.
We go through the evolution of Start Up Weekend and the principles that can be applied to all business – including failing!
We ran out of time in this this episode and so we will definitely have Dave back on to continue his story.
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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!
Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.
All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz
Follow and Like us on:
https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZ
https://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZ
https://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcast
Subscribe to the show however you want:
https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/

As part of our 5th birthday Owen Evans turned the tables on Mike, Raj, and Viv and interviewed us.
Of course with AG now closing down at the end of 2019 the sense of optimism about the future can been seen as unfounded.
We would still like to have this published - a moment in time.