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DABS Customer Support FAIL

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So I need to buy a laptop for work as we have a new Community Manager starting, we decide on a Sony VAIO Z21 - and find that DABS has it in stock and the price is a little [...]

27Mar2009 | Nick Halstead | 7 comments | Continued

Twitter API Limiting will Lead to Revenue Model

The twitterati and some Twitter App Makers have been up in arms regarding twitters recent API changes that will mean a 20,000 limit will be placed on whitelisted apps.
I think the 20,000 number is irrelevant, because of the growth twitter is going through any number will have been perceived as too low.
Money, Money, Money
They [...]

21Jan2009 | Nick Halstead | 11 comments | Continued

The UK startup scene has nothing in common with the rest of Europe

I remember some time back Mike Butcher (UK TechCrunch) talking at miniBar about the fact that during the .com bubble that one company was renting offices in carnaby street (for non-uk peeps a very expensive street in central London) - What reminded me of this story was Loic Le Meur going on about having 2 [...]

13Dec2008 | Nick Halstead | 15 comments | Continued

10 Reasons Why I hate Recruitment Agents

Given that I have finally recruited my new CTO and he started today I thought I would write up my thoughts on recruitment agencies. The guys in the office know immediately when one rings me up because my normal pleasant demeanor (honest) suddenly disappears and is replaced with that of the attitude of someone who [...]

1Jul2008 | Nick Halstead | 230 comments | Continued

Zend Framework powers fav.or.it

Today we finally launched fav.or.it. For those who have not been following our exploits for long we have been developing using Zend Framework on PHP, in fact we started using it at around version 0.6 and have worked through the problems as it has grown and evolved.
We have had our issues with performance as [...]

17Jun2008 | Nick Halstead | 54 comments | Continued

Future Technical Post

We have decided to build a nice new blog system over at fav.or.it based upon wordpress (of course) that allows for all our employees to start blogging (some already have personal blogs) - and also to better categorize the content that we are writing. This means that I will start writing my technical content over [...]

26May2008 | Nick Halstead | 13 comments | Continued
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