Kiva is an amazing organisation which allows me to loan money to entrepreneurs on the other side of the world. And I love it. And I want to tell people about it. Using services like Foursquare and Gowalla I cannot do anything without my social network hearing about it through updates to Facebook, Twitter and [...]
Spotify has really come into its own recently and that’s because of its accessibility from elsewhere. iPhone The ability to run Spotify as a background task on the iPhone has finally made it usable on the device. Until then, it restricted doing any other task until music had finished playing. Now with background operation and [...]
At Mediacamp Nottingham 2, Glenn Le Santo was discussing the last ten and next ten years of media. Part of that discussion was inevitably about monetisation and how its difficult to do. When it is attempted there is a backlash and criticism as the Times has recently experienced with its paywall debate. But without monetisation [...]
Attended Mediacamp Nottingham 2 and here is the long list of stuff that I took away from the event. List of the active Twitterer’s although pretty much everyone at the event had a Twitter account. This would not have been the case at last year event. Also read the timeline for #mcn2. Interesting discussion on [...]
Quick list of links from Think Visibility in March 2010: Al Carlton of Coolest Gadgets legend gave a great presentation on Outsourcing and Automation. He mentioned auto switching affiliate links to be relevant to the country being viewed in. This Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer plugin for WordPress looks to do the job nicely for multiple [...]
Loan repayments are coming in regularly as part of the 0% credit for Kiva in Peru idea. There are still 20 loans outstanding which are all on track to pay back within the next 6 months. If you’ve not tried Kiva yet, its a great way to donate money to those who need it.
