From New Zealand Connections

Geekzone is a technology website owned and operated by Mauricio Freitas, who is based in Wellington. Traditionally operating as a news, reviews and forum site, it has since expanded into providing blogs and social networking to its members. It has fared well with most technology websites in New Zealand earning the title of 'New Zealands top Technology website'.

Contents 1 News 2 Forums 3 Moderators 4 Blogs 5 Social Networking

News

Geekzone has a vast collection of articles, ranging from reviews to press releases to articles about technology based events. Geekzone and TV3 have also partnered with TV3 displaying geekzone articles on their technology section on their website.

Forums

Geekzone plays host to a mostly kiwi audience, who discuss a large array of subjects. Often these forums are seen to be discussing IT related subjects, as well as telecommunications subjects. In addition a team of moderators volunteer to ensure that the conversations flow smoothly and to prevent the forums from falling into disarray.

Overall, the forums are productive with flamewars that plague other forums being more the exception than the norm.

Moderators

The following people are geekzone moderators and assist in ensuring the operation of geekzone is smooth.

• chiefie
• cokemaster
• rscole86
• sbiddle
• tonyhughes

Blogs

Blogs have been a relatively new feature to Geekzone, however are reasonably popular with many regular users. With features like RSS and integration with the geekzone website, it is a compelling blogging tool for many users.

Social Networking

Geekzones newest feature - members can align other users that they consider friendly. This is a unique feature to the forums as it allows one to gain an insight to what friends are doing on geekzone and their current status. This makes extensive use of RSS.