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Twitter fixation

Image via CrunchBase My six weeks of twitter is happening and I’m firmly ensconced in my twitter life. I’ve been looking for people I know, modifying my twitter page (that picture is a bunny chow by the way), and reading furiously about it.two quick observations;1) people cleverer than me are really raving about twitter. Jason […]

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Book marketing 101

My sister’s book is being launched in the US in May (buy it). We were discussing innovative methods of marketing her book (mostly online). It is a fairly nascent industry, but there are a few people writing some interesting stuff. One of the things about her book is that it’s set in Durban South Africa, […]

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Defending your budget

Image via Wikipedia In these bumpy economic conditions one of the first things that happens is that budgets get re-examined. If you’re making revenue and profit this can also happen, so the best thing to do is be prepared. I’ll outline a couple of strategies that you can use, firstly to safeguard your budget;1) Try […]

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Daytum

I just received a beta invite for daytum to increase the amount of microblogging that I can do. Basically what it is a graphical representation (smooth lines and nice pie charts) of things that you do with your day. You add a specific category (e.g. breakfast, albums listened to, smiles you received during the day) […]

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Twitter- the emperor’s new clothes?

Image via CrunchBase I have had a twitter subscription for about 18 months and I have 16 updates. At a rate of one a month that is pretty poor microblogging. I have always had the opinion that it isn’t for me. At one stage I had one member of my team in London and the […]

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dear internet, i love you, warm regards- brendan

Image via Wikipedia I have a record collection and a love of playing records. However my technical knowledge is extremely limited in getting to grips with how to get the most of out of my system. I needed to get a new amplifier the other day and wanted something cost effective, but powerful. The old […]

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Great usability testing

Image by brycej via Flickr Usability is a crucial way of getting feedback. I’m always surprised by the feedback that I get from usability testing. if you’ve designed a page you know exactly how it should be used, and when someone struggles to perform a “simple” task there is nothing more illuminating/frustrating. Especially when you’re […]

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TV on the computer

For the last three or four years we have had no TV. By that I mean that we have had a TV, but we haven’t had any signal coming in to it, choosing only to watch series and DVD’s. This saves you from wallowing in crap teevee and just flicking through channels. However since having […]

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Back!

Happy Paddy’s day. Apologies for the long non-commercial break. Normal posting resuming.

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required reading- february edition

a couple of interesting articles to keep you up-to-date in february;1)a report on digital moms (with thanks to guy kawasaki and razorfish)this tells you that moms can be reached through a;ll the channels that you would reach other consumers, but that not all of them are the same, so you’ll need a more tailored approach. […]