November 2007
Morrissey to sue NME over immigration claims →
It’s also worth ready the very interesting exchange between NME editor, Connor, and Morrissey’s manager…
Sell Online for Free at MyStore.com →
MyStore.com is a place where you can buy or sell online for free. Whether you are a business or individual already selling on Ebay, Craigslist, Yahoo, Amazon or any online auction site or online classifieds, adding a free online store at MyStore.com increases your chances to sell your items. If you have something to sell, you have nothing to lose. If you are looking to shop online and find a...
Zopa launches in the US with different business... →
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project-red-stripe-a-story-of-innovation.pdf... →
The story of how the Economist tried to innovate online using the ‘skunkworks’-type model.
Some familiar tales in there for me and reminds me of the trials and tribulations I experienced at IPC, running a major digital New Product Development project. Perhaps one day I’ll be able to write about it…
Prosper vs. Zopa rates →
So Zopa’s going to launch in the US any day now. They’ve changed their model for the US market - details in the WSJ - making it pretty different from the other peer-to-peer lending business, Prosper. Quick summary: loans are guaranteed by credit unions, lenders buy CDs with a capped rate of 5.1%, borrowers have to meet some tougher criteria to get funded.
Interesting approach. Eliminates risk vs....
Julian Lennon invests in MyStore →
Julian Lennon, son of Beatles icon John Lennon, is among the group of private investors behind yourStore, LLC. The company owns and operates Mystore.com, an online marketplace.
In addition to his monetary investment, Julian has contributed some ideas to the options MyStore.com offers to musicians and artists who want to resell or self distribute their music and art online.
As an...
@PJWilkinson I love writing presentations!
Secure-Tunnel.com - Anonymous Surfing for Online... →
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hulu: Watch your favorites. Anytime. Anywhere. →
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Google Experimenting with Digg style search →
Google Experimental is currently running an experiment that allows some selected users to “influence [the] search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results.”
On a result page, you can choose move a search result to the top by clicking on the up-arrow corresponding result, which will be marked by an orange asterisk next time you search for the same keywords.
Similarly, if...
Uniqlo Grid →
There’s absolutely no point to this - but it’s strangely addictive!
Motilee: Symfony Powered Forum Engine Released... →
A new open-source project is born. It is called Motilee, and it is a forum engine written in PHP5 and symfony. Go take a look at the demo site and at the source code to see what it’s like.
Motilee is a symfony application built entirely from plugins. Take a sandbox, pour in the sfSimpleForumPlugin, the sfGuardPlugin, the sfLucenePlugin, the sfFeed2Plugin and a few others, add some...
Future Publishing plans £5m investment in online... →
This month's Country Life magazine has a actual... →
Facebook Analytics and Advertising | Adonomics →
Adonomics (formerly Appaholic), an open analytics platform for Facebook.
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Just launched the new Kurt Geiger site! www.kurtgeiger.com
@ryancarson Ain’t cashflow a pain in the ass…
Kurt Geiger holding page up while we migrate stuff, ready for the launch tomorrow - going to be a manic day!
Zoomf Visual Search →
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Building Teams: Why You Need Trust, Conflict,... →
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London Reviews Top Restaurants, Pubs, Shopping,... →
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Book claims working week could be 4 hours -... →
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Property search startups grow up →
Dothomes, the renamed property search engines formerly known as Extate, has launched a property price tracker to measure prices. Plug in a postcode, the year and month you purchased your house and it will map that data against a number of other data points including including average national property prices, average London property prices, FTSE100 indices and the Bank of England base rates.
This...
How to Size Text in CSS →
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Writing new tenancy agreements…
Going to a Thanksgiving Dinner at an American friend’s house today - expecting to be about 10lbs heavier on Monday…!
Amazon sneaks one-click past the patent system →
By changing the word ‘a’ to ‘the’ and adding the phrase ‘purchasable through a shopping cart model,’ lawyers for Amazon.com have apparently managed to reinstate two of CEO Jeff Bezos’ 1-Click Patent claims that were rejected a month earlier.
‘Patent Owner’s Rep was informed that the proposed addition to the claims appear to place the...
Would You Work For a Company Like This? →
This company has a little more than 600 employees and yet… 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad cheques 29 have been accused of spouse abuse 3 have done time for assault 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit 4 have been arrested on drug-related charges 8 have been arrested for shoplifting...
Weird Meat →
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Product display, photos and video, part 1 →
One of the big differences we hope to make with Webtogs, is in the way we display products on the site. There’s no doubt, that the more information a website provides, the better the conversion rate. There is also an emerging school of thought that says you can’t provide too much information.
What do I mean by information? Well, pictures, video, editor style reviews, customer reviews, features...
Matasano Chargen » Enough With The Rainbow Tables:... →
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Using jQuery with Other Libraries - jQuery... →
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Ajaxian » Getitnext.com: An example of how... →
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Facebook says: “Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours”. Damn
Rumour: News Corp to buy LinkedIn →
An unconfirmed rumour has reached me via a reliable source that LinkedIn is in talks with media giant News Corporation over a possible buyout in January 2008. The reason I am running with this, is that the source is very well-placed. Furthermore, the rumour has the fundamental ring of truth about it. Consider the following.
LinkedIn is firmly in the mainstream. Most of its users are mature...
Mac Fanboys Dream Mailbox →
This photo was emailed to us and highlights how your Mac can go on forever! Thanks James.
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Facebook is 2/3 women →
Paul Francis has looked at the Facebook user data via an advertiser tool that facilitates audience targeting.
The data shows a total of 42,966,780 members in the top 31 countries. The U.S. leads with just over 18 million users, followed by the UK (6.8m), Canada (6.7m), Australia (1.9m) and Turkey (1.6m).
Forty percent of U.S. users are male, compared to 36% overall. If you are looking for...
What is Scott Carson playing at? Two nill after 15 mins is crazy!
Rudy Giuliani’s Google ads come under fire from... →
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Earlier today at Reddit the users decided to abuse Googel Ads and play around with the conversion rate for Rudy...
Prototype JavaScript framework: Prototype 1.6.0... →
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CafeMom is now the most popular website for women... →
October numbers from comScore show CafeMom as the number one site for women in terms of total page views, racking up a total of 90 million of them.
BabyCenter is number two at 77 million, with iVillage in third at 67 million. As for Glam.com, it places a distant 9th with just 4 million page views on its site.
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Facebook starts company profile cull, favours... →
Since launching it’s Social Ads offering, where companies can pay for the privilege of creating a profile, Facebook has started to crack down on companies that created their own (free) profile previously. In the UK we haven’t heard loads about this until today when well-known digital media consultants Broadsight had the profile for their popular Broadstuff blog deleted for violating Facebook’s...
Twitter starts to limit outbound SMS in UK →
It appears Twitter is starting to smart from sending so many SMS messages to the Text-obsessed UK population. A small item has appeared on the right side-bar of Twitter profiles displaying “Received SMS 0/250″. This links through to a page explaining “How many SMS messages am I allowed to receive on my mobile per week?”
There is a weekly limit of 250 messages per week on the UK long code
There...
Symfony talk at the International PHP Conference →
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And… Webtogs is Live! →
Well, we’ve done it. I still can’t quite believe that webtogs.co.uk is live. The last 6 weeks was a blur of frenzied activity, with a million things to do, never enough time and certainly not enough sleep!
Now, I’ve worked on some fairly big rollouts in my time (far bigger than this, to be honest), but ultimate responsibility for everything has never rested on my shoulders before. Needless to...
Datejs - An open-source JavaScript Date Library »... →
Datejs is an open-source JavaScript Date library released under the MIT License.
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Umbraco - Home →
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Template Files for Web Projects →
Need help with web project management? Don’t know where to start? This pack of downloadable files contains best practice templates that you can use in your web projects. Feel free to adapt them to suit your needs.
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jQuery Calendar →
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