Monthly Archives: September 2006

Fizzy Web

Posted on 20/09/2006 by Iain

I had a meeting with a prospective client yesterday (I hope she doesn’t mind me posting this, I am keeping it anonymous). And in our conversation she said that she wanted their site to be ‘fizzy’, at first I almost … Continue reading →

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Application Love

Posted on 20/09/2006 by Iain

After an earlier gripe about YouTube’s shoddy error message, here’s a beautiful piece of application design that’s cheered me up no end. From the brilliant and ever useful backpackit.com and their writeboard (collaborative document editing dodah) service. I deleted a … Continue reading →

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Errors in Errors

Posted on 20/09/2006 by Iain

It’s been a wee while since I posted an interface gripe. So here’s one I got today at YouTube: So, what’s wrong with this? 500 Internal Server Error. That sounds like a lot of waiters with gut problems. Serious. What … Continue reading →

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I love London (a little bit)

Posted on 19/09/2006 by Iain

Some of you may have seen my ‘I love London’ blog – an experiment to try to get me to love living in London a bit more. And whether having a blog that makes me look out for good things … Continue reading →

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Zopa Interview

Posted on 19/09/2006 by Iain

Tom from Zopa said some nice things about Poke and did an email interview with me about the new Zopa site (which will soon be live, fingers crossed). It appeared in their monthly email newsletter. You can read it here … Continue reading →

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Alpine Entertainers

Posted on 19/09/2006 by Iain

Here’s a little something from my holidays. Some photos of promotional posters from the finest entertainers that South Tyrol has to offer… Alpine Entertainers – a photoset on Flickr You see, these guys look like fun. They all look like … Continue reading →

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Hackney vs Nike

Posted on 19/09/2006 by Iain

Saw this outisde a shop the other day and thought it looked like an interesting story. A bit of Googling later and it turns out that Hackeny council have sued Nike for ripping off their logo. What a funny old … Continue reading →

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MySpace Murder Foiled

Posted on 14/09/2006 by Iain

I’m sure this is going to get a lot of coverage: MySpace Murder Plot Foiled – September 14, 2006 And I’m not going to bang on about it too much, but it reminds me of a conversation that I’ve had … Continue reading →

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Holidays, Blitzen and Blogsitting

Posted on 14/09/2006 by Iain

It’s been a few days. But I am on holiday. For some reason whenever I go away people say “you’re always on holiday”, but I promise I’m not. Regardless here’s where I am: Algund-Lagundo – it’s a lovely place, but … Continue reading →

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Youth

Posted on 08/09/2006 by Iain

Ooooh oooh yes please. I’d love to know how to grab youth attention using these new fangled new media channels and technologies. Sounds exciting. Damn! I should have guessed, breakdancing kids on mobile phones. The answer was staring me straight … Continue reading →

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