Published at 25 September 2009
in linkdump.
iphone in most popular camera on flickr shock – 2 megapixel camera – my 3 year old phone is better than that!
Worrying developments, When I criss-crossed the Tajik-Afghani border last month the tense atmosphere was palpable. Tajiks largely ignored what went on 100metres across the river – or pretended to at least.
8bit choons
javascript game engine
Yahoo Pipes outputs serialised php. All they need to do now is open up the pipe creation process to an api and we’re in business.
Continue reading ‘Friday Linkdump’
Ok so I’m clicking around Facebook a lot these days looking into the viral aspect of the apps, what does and doesn’t work, etc, etc. I can’t help but pick up on the various hacks people have come up with on built in features, such as tagging any pics you like with your name to browse instantly from your profile. Or posting up those Mr Men or whatever collages to match up the friend with the trait.
All cool little diversions. And none requiring you’re friends to install any 3rd party contraption for the network dimension to be of use. And I’ve come up with my own – seeing how many of the rich and famous I can add to my network. Continue reading ‘Friend of the Stars’
Back in 2005, I used to work for what was then DrKW in their Digital Markets division. DM was their investment banking answer to the web buzz of the early 2000s. Sean Park, the head of the division, had made a personal killing on several tech floatation deals and had drank the digital koolaid. Ably assisted by an IT chief with a penchant for grand visions, he set about giving Dresdner’s corporate clients an investment banking answer to the consumer behemoths Betfair, Ebay, etc who were seemingly granting supernatural powers to anyone with an internet connection.
You can still view the Googlezon-inspired vision here. I left the bank a year later, but kept an eye on the Revolution platform. It failed miserably. The trouble was they were providing a great integrated digital service that no one in the city knew they wanted yet. Banking is a notoriously fickle industry, and change only happens when trusted relationships introduce it. Revolution’s newly recruited marketing team was manned with former developers, admin staff & inexperienced hires from other banks.
Continue reading ‘Ecosystems and Cajoling Participants’
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