James Osborn

Writing Web From a Business Angle

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Affluence.org - Vanity sells for big bucks

Affluence.org has been proclaimed ‘Facebook for rich people’. Every niche demographic seem to have their own social network and Affluence.org has been designed for rich people who like to talk to rich people… exclusively. It aims to bring ‘the members-only country club‘ mentality to the web but whilst this may sound like a good business [...]

I miss DocSyncer

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About 12 months back I was signed up to a great little tool called DocSycner which found all the word/excel/powerpoint documents on your PC and simply uploaded them to Google Docs. It was quick and easy and I found it incredibly useful as it allowed me to forget about carrying a memory stick [...]

Site Review of the Week

Following on from last week’s theme (but hopefully a little less negative and more constructive). This week is TIOTI.com (tape it off the Internet). The company is a UK based startup and tries to be a more comprehensive wikipedia for TV shows, but with a social networking layer. It started out life with a good [...]

Site Review of the Week

The Internet is abundant with sites that are bad ideas or badly executed and so I thought it was time to throw my oppinion into the mix and review a few of these sites that I think have potential.The first entrant to the list is *drumroll please*… MeOwns (http://www.meowns.com/).
Although this site stands for most things [...]

Beanstalk, FogBugz and Getting Started With Subversion — UPDATED

So with my latest project I’ve decided to try out versioning. This is the idea of saving a copy of every change you make to a document so that you can roll back to a previous version if something goes wrong. It’s something i’ve liked the idea of for a while now but never [...]