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AdCenter picking up the pace

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Microsoft AdCenter has been working hard to pick up the pace, looks like the industry is starting to notice!

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Tags: microsoft · work

Whats your Dunbar number?

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Interesting article over at Web Worker Daily - I think my Dunbar number is low, probably about 100/120. Keeping track of all these relationships is difficult - but if you look around, the tools are out there to help you.
For example - Steve Clayton showed me a tool called Terraminds, which allows you to search [...]

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Tags: random · work

Why you should be using Twitter…

January 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If you are not using Twitter yet, then maybe now is time to take a look at the application that seems to continue to cause quite a buzz on the web. Twitter is classed as a micro-blogging application, effectively tracking the small pieces of information that previously might fly point-to-point on IM or be posted [...]

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Tags: other sites · work

I’ve been lost a little…

May 30th, 2006 · No Comments

Family problems and work have kept me a little quiet, I need to catch up - so much to talk about, great music on the go all the time. Working a lot in Liverpool at the moment, opening a new call center and really enjoying visiting this cool town. Will be here all week, last [...]

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Tags: travel · work

Chinese Tea…

March 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Corporate Cup
Originally uploaded by mattr.

delivered in a corporate cup, end of day 1 in Beijing…the offices are really cool, full of clearly very talented people. Japanese lunch, Udon Noodles with Chicken…now dinner time - this trip has been one long meal!

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Tags: travel · work

An-nyong ha-se-yo from Korea

March 13th, 2006 · No Comments

So here I am (finally) in South Korea - the trip was pretty arduous - nearly 12 hours on BA to Hong Kong, then 3 hours from Hong Kong to Seoul, and to top it all off - a one hour plus bus ride from the airport to the hotel. That said, the hotel is [...]

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Tags: travel · work

Using run commands from the MSN Toolbar

November 28th, 2005 · No Comments

Inspired by a post over at Lifehacker (which is great reading by the way) - I’ve written a quick guide to setting up run commands in the MSN Search Toolbar (which is free - and works excellently as a search tool for your PC - and Outlook). Check out the guide after the jump…

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Words to make a grown man cry…

September 8th, 2005 · No Comments

The .NET Deli is currently unavailable. Please try again tomorrow.
That means I need to queue at the sandwich bar at work today…sniff.

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What does your office say about you…

July 6th, 2005 · No Comments

I just decided that I needed to buy a plant for my desk - I thought about this earlier in the week and started to decide what to get, so I was interested to read this article today, which stereotypes things in your workspace.
Plants & Foliage – plants that are well-cared for indicates someone who [...]

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This what I’m talking about…

June 11th, 2005 · No Comments

Everyone that I have ever worked with should read this article over at ‘Creating Passionate Users’. I have long advocated that powerpoint and other linear presentation forms stifle the creativity of a presenter and hide the real messages. Especially pay attention to the sections about testing your slides for suckage, and putting each slide on [...]

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Tags: work