Blurry Fondle By Nic Price on 9 November 2007 — 1 min read Blurry Fondle – Originally uploaded by Beatnic Try typing Doodle in to your phone. Mine says Fondle. More
Blog Readability Test By Nic Price on 9 November 2007 — 1 min read I’ve just been having a bit of fun with this… The Blog Readability Test. What level of education is required to understand your blog? – as seen on David Cushman’s site. Apparently you require a “high school” education to read this blog. I haven’t dug around to see what, if any, algorithm is being used... More
Social networking – worth the wait? By Nic Price on 7 November 2007 — 1 min read Two things struck me when reading this article about Google’s Orkut being bigger than Facebook in India and Brazil. First, that people are prepared to wait up to five minutes for a page to load. Orkut – 1.5 minutes Facebook – 2.5 minutes Myspace – 5 minutes You can quickly see why Orkut is favoured... More
What would your txt msg templates be? By Nic Price on 2 November 2007 — 1 min read These are the text message (SMS) templates that came with my phone: I am late. I will be there at I’m at home. Please call I’m at work. Please call I’m in a meeting, call me later at I will be arriving at Meeting is cancelled. Please call See you at See you in Sorry,... More
So… going forward By Nic Price on 2 November 2007 — 1 min read I’ve noticed two expressions being used more and more these days, mostly in a work context. First, the use of the word “So” to begin an answer to a question. This seems particularly rife amongst presenters on the conference circuit. Often it seems to be used to acknowledge a question and the questioner as if... More
Google’s OpenSocial launches By Nic Price on 2 November 2007 — 1 min read Google says “the web is better when it’s social” so it must be true. OpenSocial from Google. Not another social network. Is this a nail in Facebook’s coffin? It’s funny, I’ve become so accustomed to consciously ingnoring google ads on web pages that the little box promoting the opensocial blog on the homepage nearly escaped... More
One to watch, as it were… BBC Internet Blog By Nic Price on 1 November 2007 — 1 min read […] I think we have been slow to embrace blogs as a way of discussing our strategy and direction. This often leads to the debate happening elsewhere, based often on only half the information, and without our being able fully to join in the debate. We’ve not done ourselves any favours, and we want to... More
Peckham Rye Park Café latest By Nic Price on 1 November 2007 — 1 min read I have it on good authority that the café will open on Monday 12th November. Hooray! I met the people who’ll be running it today, they were kind enough to show me round. It looks fantastic. The very best of luck to them 🙂 More
Vote for the best bar in East Dulwich 2007 – East Dulwich Forum By Nic Price on 1 November 2007 — 1 min read It’s time for you to vote for your favourite East Dulwich bar (or pub) of the year. There’s no criteria for voting, just your favourite drinking establishment. Imagine you left East Dulwich for a few months and then returned, where would you go for your first drink? Where have you deservedly spent rather a lot... More
The West Dulwich Forum By Nic Price on 1 November 2007 — 1 min read Interesting to see the arrival this week of The West Dulwich Forum – “Talk about property, restaurants, pubs, shops, services, transport, planning, it’s up to you…” It has a striking resemblance to the East Dulwich Forum. I wonder if they are they by any chance related? Another feed for my RSS reader… More