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How ironic. After noticing Mike Arrington visited our blog today, I decided to email him for his opinion on my recent post about Oliver Starr’s departure from MobileCrunch. Less than 5 minutes later I received a Flickr email informing me that I’m now the proud Administrator of the TechCrunch UK member group. It’s a shame [...]
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Arrington reminds me of Gargamel from the smurfs. He’s a total dictator by the sounds of things. Does this guy ever learn from his mistakes? I picked up a story about his latest victim from Sam Sethi, who also found himself on Arrington’s evening menue. Oliver Starr is the latest guy to fall victim at [...]
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I’m surprised by the lack of awareness of Luca Passani from Openwave and co- founder of WURFL , about people who have special needs/preferences when browsing the Web. To put this into context, I’ll give you some background before I telling you why. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is responsible for creating and harmonizing [...]
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I was asked recently, d’ya remember any stupid technical support calls from AOL? Wow, did that bring me back… call centre days in 1996. If I remember rightly it was all a bit mad. My team was full of smart, but really crazy people and sometimes a shift was better than a night at the [...]
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I’m slightly frustrated by a recent email I received. The story is, my Life Insurance company have ever so slightly annoyed me. After spending x amount of time on to their call centre to advise of a change of address, I was asked to send an email so they had it on record. Not a [...]
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This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for sometime. Thanks to a recent post by Tom Raftery, I’ve been prompted to write sooner rather than later. I’m also going to comment on some of the commentators of Tom’s post, including Damien Mulley, organiser of the Irish Blog Awards. I feel strongly about some [...]
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Are you fed up receiving SPAM? I know I am. I’m a little tired of receiving unsolicited email but I accept it as something we must put up with. In fact, HTML vs plain text is currently being debated amongst the W3C advisory committee, during which, some suggestions are being made about a new standard [...]
