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Archive for January, 2006

Online Banking Twenny

January 23rd, 2006 14 Comments

I honestly hope that this year we see a bank stand up and say “here’s an online service that’s actually integral to the way you work”. At a time when public internet services are sucking up Ajax and open data from party pitchers, I want to know whether online banking is going to make a similar, user-centric leap forward.

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Four Things

January 23rd, 2006 2 Comments

Hoorah, a meme.

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Designing websites for the social internet

January 14th, 2006

Riffs launched later on in 2005 and I whilst I didn’t really get it at first, I did go back and managed to have some fun. Notably, I realised that really, Riffs has the potential to be “Amazon Customer Reviews” for everything on the net.

In a way, Riffs could prove far more useful as a [...]

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Carson Summit Mugshots

January 13th, 2006 1 Comment

The Carson Summit draws closer and people are starting to make plans for meet-ups and birthday parties. Mostly meet-ups though.

Nathan Pitman has started a handy group on Flickr to pop in a mugshot if you’re looking to be recognised.

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Tackling overused phrases when writing

January 13th, 2006 11 Comments

I’m not a very good writer. I hope that from time to time I pop out a fairly interesting piece, I can get quite passionate about music and I know a few words. Really, my lack of experience shows. Most noticeably, I overuse certain words and phrases. Especially when proof reading, I swap one phrase [...]

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