There can’t be many people left in the world without a gmail account, but if you’re short of one we’ve got six four three invites to give away. Drop us a line if you want one…
Archive for December 2004
I’ve got six four three gmail invites to give away – if anyone wants one, drop me a line…
From Alex Halavais, this one: type each letter of the alphabet into the address bar of your browser, and watch as your life is revealed. Or not, in my case – whether it’s something to do with the way Safari caches previous sites or something else, most of these I haven’t visited for a loooong time. Strange…
a is for ABP Marine Environmental Research
b is for Binary Bonsai
c is for Company Reports Online
d is for Delia Online
e is for Ecademy
f is for Freepint
g is for Glish
h is for Hays Recruitment
i is for IGD
j is for Jeremy Zawodny
k is for Kuro5hin
l is for Lego
m is for Magnatune
n is for Neo Office
o is for Opensource CMS
p is for Punchbaby
q is for Quicktopic
r is forRackspace
s is for Scirus
t is for Timzilla
u is for UK Wire
v is for Version Tracker
w is for Wordpress
x is for X-Plane
z is for Zope
My previously-favourite hotel in Leeds, the Marriot, has joined the roll of shame and started to charge an eye-watering £7 an hour for wifi access (previously it was was free.) So rather than shell out for that and the overpriced (and quite frankly watery) coffee, I’ve decamped to Starbucks. The coffee’s better, but the wifi is slooooowww, the music’s loud enough to intrusive and the signal strength upstairs is patchy.
Is there a valid business model for a chain of coffee shops that has free wifi, no music and decent coffee?
…rather than a comic strip.
This morning’s strip being a case in point:
Stuck for that last-minute present for the geek in your life? Look no further – simply sign up three new members to the Free Software Foundation, and Richard Stallman will record a voicemail greeting for you…
Being a relatively recent Mac convert, I don’t need much persuading that Apple know a thing or two about making innovative products. But the problem with innovative products is that they don’t stay innovative forever – so if you want to hold your position as an innovator, by definition you need to run to stay still.
But if you’re Apple, it seems that you can get a lot of your product development – or at least the off-the-wall ideas and physical design parts – done by your customers. Just sit back and monitor the speculation on the interweb, catch the better ideas and profit…
