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Brands and the Realtime Social Web

I spoke at a Mashup Event last Thursday. I was asked to talk about the ‘realtime web’ - and as some of my core interests are with how brands are engaging with the social web. I decided to cover how the transition to more realtime technologies has meant a decrease in ad-revenue, and how the [...]

3Feb2009 | admin | 3 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

Make It Scale

Last week I was invited along to speak at the Make IT Scale conference. It covered a wide range of scaling issues mainly very technical. I come from a Games Industry background and I wanted to get across how performance is critical and that everything should be done to get speed before you think about [...]

3Dec2008 | admin | 3 comments | Continued

10 Reasons Why Fable 2 Sucks

This weekend a product got me back in to blogging, but for all the wrong reasons. I had been looking forward to playing Fable 2 and really getting back to my RPG routes, I had this amazing vision of the next generation of Oblivion. In fact for all the sales hype from Peter Molyneux you [...]

29Oct2008 | admin | 476 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
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