Buzz alert!
The Saga Group, famed for their love of the older (wiser) generation, have launched a “Facebook for the over 50s”.Â
Featured as a story on BBC’s Breakfast this morning, sure enough, the site has since crashed and my attempt at adding 20 odd years to my age and joining this new social networking phenomenon is pending a database fix. Â
At [...]
Dragon Smoke (and mirrors)
Theo Paphitis, you’ve just invested £200,000 in an online gaming affliate play, are you nuts ?!Â
(Dragons Den, BBC2, Series 5 Episode 2 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/)
I won’t go in to the detail other than to say that the unique angle of ”Gaming Alerts Ltd” (http://www.gamingalerts.co.uk) , a company now valued at over half a million pounds is that it offers a [...]
When 0.0002% might just be enough.
According to the Mobile Data Association some 37 billion SMS messages were sent by UK mobile users in 2006 ; that’s around 126 million every day.  That’s a lot of sore thumbs. Better than aching wrists I guess.
According to my own research (guess), around 0.0002% of those messages contained share prices. That’s 74,000 of the beauties, each [...]
iPhone optimised service launched
OK, you can laugh about how my <cough> ‘imported’ iPhone is a useless brick if I choose to upgrade it to Apple’s latest firmware; however early adoption does have it’s benefits.Â
The iPhone has two challenges currently. Whilst it displays web pages in all their glory (minimised), the pain of scrolling, zooming and accidentally clicking on wrong links due [...]
The name’s Terry Tibbs. Talk to me.
I like Fonejacker, particularly the character Terry Tibbs (catch up at Channel4 OD). A wheeler dealer of note, tells you how it is.
If only everyone operated like him, deals and decisions would get made so much quicker.
It’s not really like that though. I’m continually bombarded by software and IT solutions companies, and so are many [...]
About our Technical Insight service
Today we launched a new service called ‘Technical Insight’.
It can be accessed currently via the tabs at the top of any UK / US share or index page, here for example. You will need to be logged in to our site to access the new tool.
The service offers tools that allow investors and traders to perform independent [...]
Web based live chat support
How many times has web based live support chat worked for me?  None.  It’s clearly something that’s very hard to get right and do well.
An example of my (last?) attempt today:-
tim has joined the room
Hi, I am sara. How may I assist You?
tim says: Hello. Are you human?
sarah says: yes
tim says: I have a query regarding order 12977
<software disconnects>
tim [...]
