James Osborn

I would like to start with my apologies for not writing to this blog for the past month or so. I have been busy with exams and the last few weeks of university fun. As I write I am sat in a bar in Spain piggybacking off the free Wi-Fi and sipping San Miguel.

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 [...]

One conclusion can be drawn from the current economic crisis… no one has a clue what to do. From Keynesian ‘Fiscal Stimulation’ (Plowing money into the economy to sustain jobs and ride the way through the recession until things pick up again. The famous quote is ‘putting money in bottles and burying them underground’ to [...]

Recently I was emailed an offer of work. The only problem is the objective of site in question differed from my own moral ideals. I would rather not say what the site is (as I may still accept the job) but it does raise an interesting question about whether my personal feelings on the subject [...]