All articles from: March, 2008

Will The Financial Crisis Damage Small Technology Firms?

The current crisis in the world’s banking industry is causing my quite a bit of concern right now.  Our web technology business is small but growing.  When businesses are doing well they’re more likely to spend money on items such as web design and web applications and we believe we’ve benefitted from that over the past year or so.

But what happens if our clients and potential clients start to suffer as a consequence of an economic downturn? Read more

Categorised as: Business

Why We Hate American Software Companies (Well, Adobe)

Actually, that’s a contentious one. We don’t really hate US software companies. Just some of them. Adobe in particular is winning no prizes for its pricing policy.

See the image below:

Adobe software is really expensive in the UK

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Categorised as: Business

10 Reasons I Hate My iPhone

Now, before the hate starts, let me say that the iPhone is beautiful. It’s UI is terrific, and it is by far the very best handheld web browsing device I’ve ever come across. It’s also the first phone I’ve had which has started conversations, and everyone who sees me using it wants to touch it. If I was so minded I’m pretty certain it could get me laid.

But there are many times I hate it. In no particular order, here’s why: Read more

Categorised as: Irreverence

10 Ways to Win Web Awards

It was close, but no cigar… one of our sites was nominated for the Clynol Best Salon Website of 2007 award.  Sadly we didn’t win it, but we looked at the competition and then at which site won.  We realised that with many of these awards the depth of analysis isn’t that deep. Read more

Categorised as: Design