AlexMuir

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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Tempted me in with chat about crayons and color. Scared me off with some uber-complex subject within two sentences.
902.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
Yodlee are generally amenable to negotiating with startups. After the Mint situation they might be willing to look at some form of equity share if you could demonstrate traction.
903.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
+1 for "there is an email in your inbox right now, that contains the link." That's a great idea - I've been approaching it as EITHER an email OR a call.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Make this available to the masses - build in the facility to print paper templates on A4 paper, and then use these to cut the structure out of plywood etc. That would be really cool - You could print contentric shapes so that you don't nee
905.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
MyDeco are doing something with enabling (furniture) designers to turn their ideas into products. Perhaps worth a look?
906.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
Simple maybe. But elegant? It looks ridiculous. Who wouldn't just put a bit of gaffa tape or sticky tape on. This is the sort of shit that Apple should dread - being perceived as a pretentious brand in mobile devices, as they became in
907.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
It just needs some light backgrounds to break up the content a bit. I think the original looks fine - the banner ad causes the most damage because it's in a completely different style.
908.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
Someone should do design around the world too. In the US people still seem to love the textured background and serif fonts. Eg http://www.remax.com/ vs http://www.remax.co.uk/ They also seem to like using posed photos of people: http:/
909.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
"Wikileaks has been somewhat quiet in its postings of late, as it is rebuilding its technology backbone to make it more secure and make it easier for leakers to submit documents." That's an understatement - the site has been dead since marc
910.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
Overview above, latest analysis here: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/07/16/289311/another-oc... This is such a flimsy business it's untrue.
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Webvan 2.0(ftalphaville.ft.com)
1 points by AlexMuir 16y ago|1 comments
912.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
I'm trying Epiphany now, thanks.
913.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
Soma.fm: groove salad and Secret Agent. I'm in a good routine when they're on. Just like supermarkets with buying music, they tell my brain it's coding time.
914.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
I'm not saying it's the wrong term, just that I've not seen it for ages. I think people just sort of take it for granted nowadays that HTML probably includes Javascript, rendering the D for dynamic a bit redundant.
915.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
DHTML - That's a blast from the past. Don't see that acronym any more.
916.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
I think this is the start of a trend - opening up financial trading to the masses, and making it easy (and fun). With pretty much zero return on cash in the bank, and a general distrust of banks, people are thinking about just doing it the
917.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
I've been using Javascript for years and never really 'learned it'. It's just something I've dipped into to solve a particular problem - largely through just grabbing other code/dissecting existing stuff. Then I got hold of jQuery and nev
918.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
A lot of people ask how Apple didn't pick this up in field testing. I think the answer is that they wrapped the iPhone 4 in plastic to camouflage it as an iPhone 3GS (as we know from the Gizmodo phone). Hence all their field testing was ef
919.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
+1 I think it's the single colour scheme and Arial font.
920.
by AlexMuir 16y ago
Fairly hopeless. It's less about startups/business than it is about people becoming self-employed. I've tried it in various areas, from the shit to the affluent - always abysmal.