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Single Wringable Neck
November 11, 2011
I love this Scrum phrase “single wringable neck” and the caption of one throat to choke (especially as its always mine). Mike Cohn and Esther Derby hate it as they feel the whole team (Product Owner, Scrum Master and Scrum Team) are all responsible. It’s true of course and who can argue with Mike [...]
How to do a daily Scrum
November 1, 2011
Love these Kiwis doing a Scrum (I’ve been told not to call it a Daily Standup). Very funny.
Which reminds me of the Fight Club rules:-
The rules of ‘fight club’
The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club.
The second rule of Fight Club is, you DO NOT talk about Fight [...]
Android Fragmentation Not Solved with Ice Cream Sandwich
November 1, 2011
Google announced last year that Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of the Android operating system would solve the fragmentation issues in the Android market place. However Android fragmentation worries hit the mainstream news this week when Michael DeGusta announced the results of a report [...]
BBC iPlayer App Now in Australia
September 29, 2011
This is something I always dreamed of when in Australia, access to BBC content! It was so annoying that you couldn’t access the BBC site without some complicated proxy server redirects going on. Now you not only can get (paid) access to iPlayer, you can get in on your iPad and iPhone. Brilliant. [...]
Hootsuite have announced that their iPhone Apps are now FREE
July 11, 2011
by Paul Thompson
in marketing tools
Hootsuites iPhone App, previously called the PAID or FULL app is now free. They are releasing free versions for Android, iPad and Blackberry too. HootSuite is an advanced social networking dashboard aimed mainly at professionals who need to leverage sites such as Twitter and Facebook for their [...]
Using gamification to expand user participation
June 18, 2011
Is gamification just a buzz word? Or can it increase customer acquisition and expand user participation? How do you actually use gamification to get more customers? How does gamification work with mobile apps?
Why do 50 million people a month use Yelp?
May 19, 2011
Yelp is a US based review site, at position 45 of the Comscore top US sites and in April 2011 attracted 50 million visitors. Internationally Yelp has sites in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, The Netherlands and here in the United Kingdom. Yelp is available in the US and Europe [...]
Four Square Use Cases
May 11, 2011
In 2006, I was designing a social network product for a mobile content company. One of the key ideas for the social network was to engage the customers by game playing. The particular mobile social network provided cooperative social games marrying content + the users social graph + the users [...]
Are You Playing Games With Me? Social Network Game Mechanics
May 11, 2011
Are you playing games with me? Not only Facebook, but YouTube, FourSquare, Google and just about every Web 2.0 site out there are probably playing games with you. Find out how they are playing games with you and why.
Top 17 Sources of Google Places Citations in the UK
May 6, 2011
by Paul Thompson
in Google Places
There are a number of US sites which explain how to claim a Google Places entries for Small Business Owners and then where to find the necessary citations which help their Google Places ranking. This is great for US business owners, but what about UK businesses? On this side of the pond we have [...]
