James Osborn

In the old world businesses would make it as difficult as humanly possible for consumers to move from their service to a competitors. This makes economic sense, after all… people are less likely to want to move if it involves effort, if they don’t get the equivalent service elsewhere or if something (such as a [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

When mainstream media begin using twitter as a live feedback mechanism and the general public understand what is going on there is no doubt that we can say Twitter has hit the big time. Today whilst watching ‘The Wright Stuff’, a popular morning discussion programme in the UK the stand-in host (Richard Bacon) told the [...]

Someone I met made an interesting point recently. When I was telling of my interest in the web industry instead of a vague look of comprehension that is common among ‘normal people’ I was greeted with an open hostility for those in the field. Although this is the first time I have seen such a [...]

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 [...]