I wonder what the business reason is for not allowing extra subscribers to Sky Broadband. But I’d more than likely sign up to a subscriber system to download movies. I rent them at the moment from Amazon; it’d be so much easier just to download instread of having to post DVDs all the time. But […]
New Phone
I’ve bought me a new phone. Apart from a short lived pay-as-you-go phone in Amsterdam back in 2000, this is the first phone I have actually gone and chosen. Up until now, work has provided a phone and paying the bills. As I’m not going to have that in the future, it was time to […]
DRM Stuff
Shelley Powers has started a must-read thread on DRM, the agruments for and against. Personally, I’m in favour of looking for business models that reduce DRM. Having lost a number of albums due to a hard drive failure, the only way to get them back at the moment seems to be to repurchase. I’ve bought […]
Eric Shmidt on the BBC
The BBC have just shown an ‘exclusive’ interview, on the main nightly news,with Eric Schmidt of Google promoting the new video service they are going to announce in 2 hours time at CES. It’ll probably follow on their website soon.
Taking this far too seriously
Semanticist “presents a dozen signs that this whole “nanoculture” thing might be a little too much for you to handle.” with the nanoculture being such things as SEO, Web 2.0, New Media and Social Computing . Favourites being 11. You no longer speak to co-workers, but instead refer them to your comments feed. 2. You […]
Snippets 6th Jan
Yahoo! are running a poll to find the most popular find of 2005. There are serious categories: Community has things like the Can Do Exchange to share skills and knowledge; Educational looks at things like the Mars Rover site But the papers (or at least the Metro) are covering the wilder side, the weird and […]
Viral Marketing – or Spam
Update: Goowy responded to this very quickly, commenting on the various posts, changing their sign up and posting an apology on their blog. They’ve recognsied the problem and corrected it; It was still a fundamental mistake to make in the first place though. Marketeers love the concept of viral marketing. Brand teams and agencies talk […]
Saladtastic
Resolutions were on display in the canteen at lunchtime. The first day back at work found a far larger than usual number of people choosing salad for their lunch instead of any other offering. Walking into Waterstones, another favourite resolution was being encouraged – giving up smoking – with this highly visible display of half-price […]
Favourite TV
On a good week I only watch maybe 4-5 hours of TV. It’s not to say that the TV is not turned on more than that, but the programmes on are usually not something I make an effort to watch but is often just background, (in fact, the film Zulu is on at the moment, […]
Surviving Geek Dinners
Maryam has a great post on how to survive Geek dinners. Fortunately you don’t necessarily need all these hints at the London Girl Geek Dinners as it is not all a completely techie crowd, but a bunch of people who display their geekness in many different ways. The next one is on 19th January, so […]
Business Tips
Rick Segal has posted a few business tips for 2006. I especially like this one and can so see the advantages into trying it. Forward your phone to a responsible person. Let’s face it, you need the personal touch of a responsible assistant but, as a start up, you can’t afford it. Simple. Forward your […]
Happy New Year
A Happy 2006 to everyone. A traditional time to take stock, looking backwards to what has been and forwards to what may be. To make resolutions about how things are going to be different next year, how you’ll improve your life or try and improve the lives of others. Technorati are asking people to tag […]