How long do you want to be an Assistant Product Manager? Assistant Product Manager 4 Life Job Summary Reference IS0012 Location Horseferry Road Hours 37 per week Closing Date 03 December 2010 at Midnight DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION * Channel 4 Online is responsible for creating and managing Channel 4 multiplatform experiences […]
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As Tom puts it: “Spelling curtesy of Iphone” “Periods everywhere? Sorry, this email was composed on Google’s Nexus One” Mobile signatures: a new artform…? Other good ones out there – any favourites? (the less imaginative, literal one above is mine, I think. Now in hiding, since I’m back on iPhone […]
http://www.danceswithferrets.org/meeblog/?p=662 “In addition to introducing new practices and processes to our office that transformed our day-to-day operations, Dean introduced me to Dogging!” FWIW … I’d be a *lot* more likely to hire someone with that on their resume/profile than I would someone with “Dean is professional and valuable member of […]
For the handful of marketing people who still don’t understand why we don’t like seeing their ads spattered over the web like diarrhea: http://www.oliverwillis.com/2010/10/19/worst-ad-placement-ever/
iPhone app seeks to prevent taxi drivers from ripping-off their passengers “there has even been a case of a driver who had wired up the seats so he could deliver an electric shock to any troublesome passengers.”
The Wicks Group is a private-equity firm routinely buying and selling companies for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Here’s their web page: Yes, really. At first I thought it was some small spam-using firm with crappy webskills, that had managed to buy the domain name of a bigger […]
Apple runs a conference each year (“WWDC”) where they provide documentation and material that developers MUST use – but isn’t available elsewhere. That’s OK – they record it all, and the slides, and make it available free afterwards. Except … You can’t download it from the web, you can only […]
When I log into LinkedIn, I now receive 3 pages of spam. That spam is “every tweet by every person I’ve ever met”. Somewhere, buried inside the avalanche of spam, are a few genuine LinkedIn messages. e.g. today I saw that a friend had moved to a new company – […]
There’s a conference in Brighton this week, and one of the industry media – GamesIndustry.biz – has a base here, so they’ve been cropping up a lot in the reporting. In passing, I noticed some glaring howlers in their web-design. The 1990’s called, they want their web-design templates back… Three […]
…and Amazon’s intelligent recommendation engine leaps into action: (if you don’t know who Tim Langdell is, and you work in the games industry, just Google him.
(where normaly people might “Be original, then Apologize if you fail”) Just a minor piece of recent DRAMA! DRAMA!, something to cheer up the week… This excellent piece of Advertising / Fun / Augmented Reality / Creativity was – like most big-budget ideas – based on someone else’s idea, someone […]
Some people are telling me I should just let it go, but honestly I just can’t do that. I’d rather quit. (As they say: It’s funny, becaus it’s true. If you develop for Apple platforms, that eloquently sums up how Apple (currently) appears to everyone they partner with: a childish, […]
Interesting search result for “O2 Facebook”: …IIRC that started off as a service for MySpace, then MySpace/Facebook. Apparently now it’s all about Facebook (only). The only mention of MySpace is a navbar link to something about broadband – seemingly unrelated. PS: Entity System post coming soon, for those that look […]
So neatly done, I find it hard to believe it’s not real… “3D gaming? What if the game characters saw the GAMER in 3D instead of the other way around? Is it really only myself that thinks like this?” (along with other greats such as: “A good game can be […]
Things are getting interesting in Recruitment land again… Received today: Adam, greetings from the Visual Computing Group at Intel Corporation. We received your contact information from the Siggraph Job Fair. Please let me know how much discrete or integrated graphics driver development, media software, or debug experience you have and […]
I saw an article recently that described this attitude nicely: certain weak marketing executives believe that the purpose of a “conversation” is for them to have more ways of telling the customer what to do; they are seemingly incapable of understanding the idea that a “conversation” involves listening to the […]
I’m trying to download the 3.0 OS update for iPhone…and being denied by Apple’s own software – that cannot even download a single file from a website (!) It’s a 1GB download that you “must” download via iTunes, because … well … because … um … Apple hates web browsers? […]
Clearly stated on every single page on the Apple store (it’s the page footer): Prices are inclusive of VAT (15%) but exclusive of delivery charges unless otherwise indicated. In the Apple Store, Apple therefore appears to (maybe…actually does, considering they *clearly state* the above?) over-charge you for VAT. But there’s […]