Archive for June, 2009
I was recently having breakfast with a Venture Capitalist who said that he wouldn’t invest in any web2.0 company that had an advertising based business model. I can’t blame him. It frankly amazes me that so much of the web is run on advertising right now. My personal sense is that advertising has become part […]
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Tags: advertising, brand, DVR, google, marketing, PVR
In a TFhelL minute
Owwweeooo things ain’t gonna change. Minutes – exactly sixty seconds long except in New York (where they are reputably shorter, or at least busier) and on the London tube. The Jubilee Line has particularly long minutes. If you’re unlucky enough to use it regularly (which isn’t me any more since I escaped Canary Wharf at […]
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It really looks like somebody started building an application to do this properly on the web, and then thought it was too much trouble – let’s just give them a link to the paper form.
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Google – getting it right :)
I was expecting some nasty identity collisions if I tried to use my personal Gmail and company Gmail in the same browser (in my case Chrome, which I like a lot). In fact I’m sure that bad things used to happen, as I’ve tried this before. But… I’m happy to report that there are in fact no issues whatsoever.
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Google – trying to be too clever
I don’t want my Google Reader in Hebrew or French just because I happen to be in Tel Aviv or Paris. When I sign in it’s me alright! I still speak (and read in) English. Google must know this – I usually use English, I usually browse from England, all of my search queries are in English, the emails that I send are in English, and the blogs I read are written in English. User experience #FAIL.
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Geek travel
First day in the new job, and I’m back on the road again after a quiet 18 months from a travel perspective. I’ve spent some time over the last few years trying to optimise things so that I’m carrying the least weight but the most functionality (particularly important when trying to avoid checking stuff in). […]
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