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Monthly Archives: October 2005
Attention Overlords
It’s interesting, going back and forth and sideways between Dare, Scoble and Steve Gillmor about ‘attention’. But if Amazon can’t get it right on one site, and eBay can’t get it right on one site, and Google can’t serve me … Continue reading
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Microsoft Mobile App Awards
Budding micro-ISVs with an interest in Windows Mobile might want to check out the Microsoft Mobile App Awards: Winners will receive great prizes including; a Qtek 9100 Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 device; free version of Visual Studio 2005; tailored marketing … Continue reading
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Blogger Database Freebie
So it’s no free bottle of wine, but VistaDB are giving away a copy of their $229 embeddable database to bloggers. Can’t see if there’s any Compact Framework support anywhere in there, but for the desktop they claim it’s a … Continue reading
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ITV4 Launches Tuesday
I’ve been readying Tivo for the launch on Tuesday of ITV’s fourth non-news channel, ITV4. ITV2 is mostly reality television, ITV3 is mostly crime-dramas, and as I browsed next week’s lineup for the new channel I came to a very … Continue reading
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Forget Smarter Conversations, Just Pay Your Users
Given this debate (via Robert Scoble): Interesting little debate going on the blogs this morning. Anil Dash wants Flickr to pay its users, particularly the ones who put the most popular content onto the service. Caterina, co-founder of Flickr, answers … Continue reading
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Test Driven Eroticism
From the XP Yahoo group: Jim Shore: More than anything else, Fit facilitates thinking about the domain. In the same way that test-driven development, when done well, facilitates thinking about design, Fit done well facilitates thinking about the domain. This … Continue reading
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Excuse Me, Sir
Anyone who’s lived for a while in Canterbury will know that the high street is a gauntlet of clipboard-wielding marketeers, and moving up to Sheffield, I was confident that my market-research-avoidance skills were transferrable. So, as we swept into Sheffield … Continue reading
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OpenOffice 97… 95?
While Jensen Harris happily blogs about the new Office 12 UI, OpenOffice.org – with a mission to create the leading international office suite – fought back with OpenOffice 2.0 this week. My first impressions, to quote Bart: Let me get … Continue reading
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From Concept To Class Action
Kathy Sierra quotes Steve Jobs: “Here’s what you see at a lot of companies; you know how you see a show car and it’s really cool, and then four years later you see the production car, and it sucks? And … Continue reading
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And Then The Fallout
So we didn’t get to see The Fallout Trust. They got held up in traffic, the Leadmill told them not to bother turning up, they turned up, tried to steal their free beers and got kicked out. Rock, and indeed … Continue reading
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