iamben

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1411.
by iamben 15y ago
I had just under 90k uniques in a 24 hour period (and 170k-ish pageviews) on NFS last month and it held up without any problems :-) I think it cost me about 10 cents. Brilliant.
1412.
by iamben 15y ago
I got this a couple of days ago. It links to: http://www.google.com/chromebook/index.html Despite the panic in the Google+ comments, there's a cross next to the ad, just click it and you don't see it again. It's no big deal, IMO. Edit: th
1413.
by iamben 15y ago
Without sounding completely mental, Twitter has been my work from home saviour this time around. I worked from home a fair few years back, and by the time my housemate came home, I was bouncing off the walls with the excitement of someone t
1414.
by iamben 15y ago
I disagree - I've been using Spotify for a couple of years to discover new music. The 'Related artists' panel, and then the 'Top Hits' easily lets you find similar bands/musicians and sample their most popular songs. I'd prefer someone to d
1415.
by iamben 15y ago
As someone that's done 'the band thing' and been involved with plenty of others who have and are doing 'the band thing' - if I was doing it now, as a smaller artist I would absolutely go to town with distribution by whatever means necessary
1416.
by iamben 15y ago
We tried to drop IE6 support for an ecommerce client recently. But looking at analytics, IE6 customers are still doing 5 figures a month in revenue. The client just can't risk the potential lack of conversion in a site with a 'graceful degr
1417.
Windows XP usage dips but it's still top OS(news.cnet.com)
2 points by iamben 15y ago|0 comments
1418.
by iamben 15y ago
Site doesn't even render in IE6 on XP. Not sure if that's a good thing or not. IE7 on XP scores 1. That's something, I suppose.
1419.
by iamben 15y ago
3 apps that haven't been mentioned yet but I couldn't rate highly enough: Pubtran - if you're in London, is fantastic for trains and tubes. Vignette - Absolutely beautiful and beautifully made camera app (lots of filters and whatnot). gStri
1420.
by iamben 15y ago
IMO, some of these domains are probably worth more than $250 anyway.
1421.
by iamben 15y ago
From Reuters a few weeks back: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/21/us-motorola-idUKTRE... "Billionaire investor Carl Icahn urged Motorola to shop around its patent portfolio to cash in on interest in wireless technology from companie
1422.
Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion(techcrunch.com)
1214 points by iamben 15y ago|369 comments
1423.
by iamben 15y ago
It'd be much more useful if they'd integrated it with Apps accounts prior to launch. Apps customers still can't create Profiles, never got to use Buzz etc etc, despite being promised Profiles 'in a few weeks' back in March.
1424.
by iamben 15y ago
Why not diminish the value of a patent once it's sold? That way you prevent companies like Lodsys buying and trolling, and if you put the money / time / resources into the development of something, you can reap the reward. Just a thought, n
1425.
by iamben 15y ago
Prey gets the location of the computer using Google, I believe.
1426.
by iamben 15y ago
Plus points for the Cavern love ;-) Never really had any trouble in Exeter - couple of pushy situations, but that's about it. One of my mates at Exeter Uni (99-02) was Asian and was subjected to some dreadful abuse. It seems to have got bet
1427.
Twitter cannot be allowed to operate outside the law(guardian.co.uk)
6 points by iamben 15y ago|1 comments
1428.
by iamben 15y ago
Depends how good and how well targeted your Facebook campaign is. I mean, if you have an incredibly niche product, and you target everyone on Facebook in that niche your click/conversion for more info will be much higher than a blanket Face
1429.
by iamben 15y ago
Great idea ;-) I'd also love an explanation as what you're doing on the crawl to collate it all?
1430.
Wonga won The Startup100 awards, not Spotify(eu.techcrunch.com)
42 points by iamben 15y ago|12 comments
1431.
by iamben 16y ago
I'm guessing this won't work now. Since mid 2010 you've needed to OAuth to update your status.
1432.
by iamben 16y ago
I suppose if you really had to store something sensitive on Dropbox, you'd just TrueCrypt it first... Not really an issue then, no?
1433.
by iamben 16y ago
Most important thing I can say is just to get on and do. When you don't have to go into work for someone else every day, it's really easy to get distracted with day to day stuff - don't let it happen. Aside from that, enjoy yourself. If you