Because I know you all miss my posts while I have no Internet access at home due to the house move, I’ll provide you with comic relief in the form of some of YouTube’s cream of the crop. Everyone loves Star Wars. Everyone loves kids. Everyone loves YouTube. (sort of.)
Cambridge copper thieves
“Thousands of homes face losing phone lines after cable thieves struck. Police were alerted today at 9.30am to the theft of high-value cables near Cambourne. [...] A mobile police station has been sent to the area and high-profile police patrols have been mounted in a bid to reassure residents. BT engineers are working on restoring [...]
The web 2.0 crowd is a fickle one: How do you keep your users?
This evening, looking at the activity on Twitter, I was fascinated to see how quickly the usual Jaiku crowd had migrated. For those who haven’t noticed, Jaiku was showing a big fat 502 Bad Gateway error for a number of hours before it was replaced by the Jaiku birdie telling us that busted hard drives [...]
Want to write for Innocent Drinks?
Dan Germain blogged about the ultimate job at Innocent Drinks, one of creative writer. Anyone who knows the Innocent brand and loves it as much as I do will agree that these are big shoes to fill. The writing is one of the assets that make the (somewhat overpriced) smoothies seem so much more appealing [...]
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona
Tomorrow morning, really bloody early, I’ll be heading off to Barcelona to attend Mobile World Congress, an event of gargantuan proportions (from what everyone tells me). I’ll be blogging as much as possible on the Taptu blog and twittering away*. If I’m lucky, I should have the time to post a few videos to my [...]
Themeword: Exploration
In early January, Chris Messina and many others kicked off the new year with “theme words”, ideas that should help them focus their efforts. I thought I’d share the #themeword I picked a month ago and have been following since. It’s “exploration”, in every sense of the word. Exploration in the travel sense. I want [...]
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