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As I am in a vitriolic mood at the moment, my latest candidate is three mobile.

I have no real issue with them (i have a great free phone, fantastic contract for next to nothing, and far better signal service than I was expecting), other than when I asked if I could change my internet add-on to allow me to use Fring and Skype.

They told me it was not possible. Then service agent Number 2 told me that my phone was not compatible. Eh? I have a Nokia N80 running S60.

I had to makethem change my tariff to X-series Silver.

Last night I enjoyed several minutes’ of FREE fring conversations over Gtalk and updated twitter over fring - all using my three phone but not using my three mobile voice contract. ( I have a 1Gb data add-on).

Mobile operators, be aware your business will go the way of the music industry if you are not careful. As soon as the use of things like Fring become more widespread and the perceived technology barriers come down, your revenues WILL decline.

Customer previously on hefty voice contracts will take your lowest voice contract and replace it witrh your unlimited data add-on.

Start to ramp up prices of data and people will simply move to the next cheapest company. Customer loyalty will be a distant memory.

Address this now - start to create attractive VoIP tariffs so that you can bring in the money to help make the mobile web become everything we all hope it will be.

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As I am in a vitriolic mood at the moment, my latest candidate is three mobile.

I have no real issue with them (i have a great free phone, fantastic contract for next to nothing, and far better signal service than I was expecting), other than when I asked if I could change my internet add-on to allow me to use Fring and Skype.

They told me it was not possible. Then service agent Number 2 told me that my phone was not compatible. Eh? I have a Nokia N80 running S60.

I had to makethem change my tariff to X-series Silver.

Last night I enjoyed several minutes’ of FREE fring conversations over Gtalk and updated twitter over fring - all using my three phone but not using my three mobile voice contract. ( I have a 1Gb data add-on).

Mobile operators, be aware your business will go the way of the music industry if you are not careful. As soon as the use of things like Fring become more widespread and the perceived technology barriers come down, your revenues WILL decline.

Customer previously on hefty voice contracts will take your lowest voice contract and replace it witrh your unlimited data add-on.

Start to ramp up prices of data and people will simply move to the next cheapest company. Customer loyalty will be a distant memory.

Address this now - start to create attractive VoIP tariffs so that you can bring in the money to help make the mobile web become everything we all hope it will be.

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According to employment law firm Peninsula, 233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees “wasting time” on social networking.

Thanks Penninsula. That’s a new headline isn’t it?

Lost? Potato, Pota-to.

Mike Huss, director of employment law at Peninsula called on all firms to block access to sites such as Facebook.

He asked: “Why should employers allow their workers to waste two hours a day on Facebook when they are being paid to do a job?”

He said that loss of productivity was proving a “major headache” for firms.

Headache? Do you even know what a headache is Mr. Huss?

A headache is having to live on the breadline for a long period of time because one of your clients (Swift Marketing Solutions) deducted wages from me as an incentive to make me work more effectively and at the same time changed the terms of my contract without giving me a new one. Is it not the responsibility of Penninsula to ensure that their clients are acting within the rules?

Although to be fair to you,  I suspect Mr. Huss, that your Manchester office was not told of these previous actions at the time that you were advising them on how to legally get rid of me.

Might I suggest that both you and your clients spend a little bit more time on social networks to enable to them join the real world where the rest of humanity is.

According to employment law firm Peninsula, 233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees “wasting time” on social networking.

Thanks Penninsula. That’s a new headline isn’t it?

Lost? Potato, Pota-to.

Mike Huss, director of employment law at Peninsula called on all firms to block access to sites such as Facebook.

He asked: “Why should employers allow their workers to waste two hours a day on Facebook when they are being paid to do a job?”

He said that loss of productivity was proving a “major headache” for firms.

Headache? Do you even know what a headache is Mr. Huss?

A headache is having to live on the breadline for a long period of time because one of your clients (Swift Marketing Solutions) deducted wages from me as an incentive to make me work more effectively and at the same time changed the terms of my contract without giving me a new one. Is it not the responsibility of Penninsula to ensure that their clients are acting within the rules?

Although to be fair to you,  I suspect Mr. Huss, that your Manchester office was not told of these previous actions at the time that you were advising them on how to legally get rid of me.

Might I suggest that both you and your clients spend a little bit more time on social networks to enable to them join the real world where the rest of humanity is.

According to employment law firm Peninsula, 233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees “wasting time” on social networking.

Thanks Penninsula. That’s a new headline isn’t it?

Lost? Potato, Pota-to.

Mike Huss, director of employment law at Peninsula called on all firms to block access to sites such as Facebook.

He asked: “Why should employers allow their workers to waste two hours a day on Facebook when they are being paid to do a job?”

He said that loss of productivity was proving a “major headache” for firms.

Headache? Do you even know what a headache is Mr. Huss?

A headache is having to live on the breadline for a long period of time because one of your clients (Swift Marketing Solutions) deducted wages from me as an incentive to make me work more effectively and at the same time changed the terms of my contract without giving me a new one. Is it not the responsibility of Penninsula to ensure that their clients are acting within the rules?

Although to be fair to you,  I suspect Mr. Huss, that your Manchester office was not told of these previous actions at the time that you were advising them on how to legally get rid of me.

Might I suggest that both you and your clients spend a little bit more time on social networks to enable to them join the real world where the rest of humanity is.

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According to employment law firm Peninsula, 233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees “wasting time” on social networking.

Thanks Penninsula. That’s a new headline isn’t it?

Lost? Potato, Pota-to.

Mike Huss, director of employment law at Peninsula called on all firms to block access to sites such as Facebook.

He asked: “Why should employers allow their workers to waste two hours a day on Facebook when they are being paid to do a job?”

He said that loss of productivity was proving a “major headache” for firms.

Headache? Do you even know what a headache is Mr. Huss?

A headache is having to live on the breadline for a long period of time because one of your clients (Swift Marketing Solutions) deducted wages from me as an incentive to make me work more effectively and at the same time changed the terms of my contract without giving me a new one. Is it not the responsibility of Penninsula to ensure that their clients are acting within the rules?

Although to be fair to you,  I suspect Mr. Huss, that your Manchester office was not told of these previous actions at the time that you were advising them on how to legally get rid of me.

Might I suggest that both you and your clients spend a little bit more time on social networks to enable to them join the real world where the rest of humanity is.

(via blending the mix)

According to employment law firm Peninsula, 233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees “wasting time” on social networking.

Thanks Penninsula. That’s a new headline isn’t it?

Lost? Potato, Pota-to.

Mike Huss, director of employment law at Peninsula called on all firms to block access to sites such as Facebook.

He asked: “Why should employers allow their workers to waste two hours a day on Facebook when they are being paid to do a job?”

He said that loss of productivity was proving a “major headache” for firms.

Headache? Do you even know what a headache is Mr. Huss?

A headache is having to live on the breadline for a long period of time because one of your clients (Swift Marketing Solutions) deducted wages from me as an incentive to make me work more effectively and at the same time changed the terms of my contract without giving me a new one. Is it not the responsibility of Penninsula to ensure that their clients are acting within the rules?

Although to be fair to you,  I suspect Mr. Huss, that your Manchester office was not told of these previous actions at the time that you were advising them on how to legally get rid of me.

Might I suggest that both you and your clients spend a little bit more time on social networks to enable to them join the real world where the rest of humanity is.

(via blending the mix)

According to employment law firm Peninsula, 233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees “wasting time” on social networking.

Thanks Penninsula. That’s a new headline isn’t it?

Lost? Potato, Pota-to.

Mike Huss, director of employment law at Peninsula called on all firms to block access to sites such as Facebook.

He asked: “Why should employers allow their workers to waste two hours a day on Facebook when they are being paid to do a job?”

He said that loss of productivity was proving a “major headache” for firms.

Headache? Do you even know what a headache is Mr. Huss?

A headache is having to live on the breadline for a long period of time because one of your clients (Swift Marketing Solutions) deducted wages from me as an incentive to make me work more effectively and at the same time changed the terms of my contract without giving me a new one. Is it not the responsibility of Penninsula to ensure that their clients are acting within the rules?

Although to be fair to you,  I suspect Mr. Huss, that your Manchester office was not told of these previous actions at the time that you were advising them on how to legally get rid of me.

Might I suggest that both you and your clients spend a little bit more time on social networks to enable to them join the real world where the rest of humanity is.

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Proof, if proof were ever required, that Robert Scoble has a bigger brain than the rest of us:

Previous research has suggested that a person’s conventional friendship group consists of around 150 people, with five very close friends but larger numbers of people who we keep in touch with less regularly. This figure is so consistent that scientists have suggested it is determined by the cognitive constraints of keeping up with large numbers of people. Larger numbers just require too much brain effort to keep track of.

source:
(Guardianonline)

With 4,999 facebook friends, it is obvious that Robert is able to process many more relationships that most normal human beings.

Robert, I salute you!

On a more sensible note, I find it interesting how important this 150:5 ratio is when you consider that Facebook adapts your friend list according to the frequency of contact and similarities between, groups of friends. Does this enhance or reduce our ability to carry out relationships with a greater number of people?

Is it better to have fleeting relationships with more people or closer relationships with fewer people? I don’t think Facebook necessarily solves this problem, but with its adaptive friendship algorithm (where you see less news from people you don’t contact regularly), it certainly helps meaning we can all be a bit more like Robert!

Proof, if proof were ever required, that Robert Scoble has a bigger brain than the rest of us:

Previous research has suggested that a person’s conventional friendship group consists of around 150 people, with five very close friends but larger numbers of people who we keep in touch with less regularly. This figure is so consistent that scientists have suggested it is determined by the cognitive constraints of keeping up with large numbers of people. Larger numbers just require too much brain effort to keep track of.

source:
(Guardianonline)

With 4,999 facebook friends, it is obvious that Robert is able to process many more relationships that most normal human beings.

Robert, I salute you!

On a more sensible note, I find it interesting how important this 150:5 ratio is when you consider that Facebook adapts your friend list according to the frequency of contact and similarities between, groups of friends. Does this enhance or reduce our ability to carry out relationships with a greater number of people?

Is it better to have fleeting relationships with more people or closer relationships with fewer people? I don’t think Facebook necessarily solves this problem, but with its adaptive friendship algorithm (where you see less news from people you don’t contact regularly), it certainly helps meaning we can all be a bit more like Robert!

Proof, if proof were ever required, that Robert Scoble has a bigger brain than the rest of us:

Previous research has suggested that a person’s conventional friendship group consists of around 150 people, with five very close friends but larger numbers of people who we keep in touch with less regularly. This figure is so consistent that scientists have suggested it is determined by the cognitive constraints of keeping up with large numbers of people. Larger numbers just require too much brain effort to keep track of.

source:
(Guardianonline)

With 4,999 facebook friends, it is obvious that Robert is able to process many more relationships that most normal human beings.

Robert, I salute you!

On a more sensible note, I find it interesting how important this 150:5 ratio is when you consider that Facebook adapts your friend list according to the frequency of contact and similarities between, groups of friends. Does this enhance or reduce our ability to carry out relationships with a greater number of people?

Is it better to have fleeting relationships with more people or closer relationships with fewer people? I don’t think Facebook necessarily solves this problem, but with its adaptive friendship algorithm (where you see less news from people you don’t contact regularly), it certainly helps meaning we can all be a bit more like Robert!

Proof, if proof were ever required, that Robert Scoble has a bigger brain than the rest of us:

Previous research has suggested that a person’s conventional friendship group consists of around 150 people, with five very close friends but larger numbers of people who we keep in touch with less regularly. This figure is so consistent that scientists have suggested it is determined by the cognitive constraints of keeping up with large numbers of people. Larger numbers just require too much brain effort to keep track of.

source:
(Guardianonline)

With 4,999 facebook friends, it is obvious that Robert is able to process many more relationships that most normal human beings.

Robert, I salute you!

On a more sensible note, I find it interesting how important this 150:5 ratio is when you consider that Facebook adapts your friend list according to the frequency of contact and similarities between, groups of friends. Does this enhance or reduce our ability to carry out relationships with a greater number of people?

Is it better to have fleeting relationships with more people or closer relationships with fewer people? I don’t think Facebook necessarily solves this problem, but with its adaptive friendship algorithm (where you see less news from people you don’t contact regularly), it certainly helps meaning we can all be a bit more like Robert!

Proof, if proof were ever required, that Robert Scoble has a bigger brain than the rest of us:

Previous research has suggested that a person’s conventional friendship group consists of around 150 people, with five very close friends but larger numbers of people who we keep in touch with less regularly. This figure is so consistent that scientists have suggested it is determined by the cognitive constraints of keeping up with large numbers of people. Larger numbers just require too much brain effort to keep track of.

source:
(Guardianonline)

With 4,999 facebook friends, it is obvious that Robert is able to process many more relationships that most normal human beings.

Robert, I salute you!

On a more sensible note, I find it interesting how important this 150:5 ratio is when you consider that Facebook adapts your friend list according to the frequency of contact and similarities between, groups of friends. Does this enhance or reduce our ability to carry out relationships with a greater number of people?

Is it better to have fleeting relationships with more people or closer relationships with fewer people? I don’t think Facebook necessarily solves this problem, but with its adaptive friendship algorithm (where you see less news from people you don’t contact regularly), it certainly helps meaning we can all be a bit more like Robert!

Proof, if proof were ever required, that Robert Scoble has a bigger brain than the rest of us:

Previous research has suggested that a person’s conventional friendship group consists of around 150 people, with five very close friends but larger numbers of people who we keep in touch with less regularly. This figure is so consistent that scientists have suggested it is determined by the cognitive constraints of keeping up with large numbers of people. Larger numbers just require too much brain effort to keep track of.

source:
(Guardianonline)

With 4,999 facebook friends, it is obvious that Robert is able to process many more relationships that most normal human beings.

Robert, I salute you!

On a more sensible note, I find it interesting how important this 150:5 ratio is when you consider that Facebook adapts your friend list according to the frequency of contact and similarities between, groups of friends. Does this enhance or reduce our ability to carry out relationships with a greater number of people?

Is it better to have fleeting relationships with more people or closer relationships with fewer people? I don’t think Facebook necessarily solves this problem, but with its adaptive friendship algorithm (where you see less news from people you don’t contact regularly), it certainly helps meaning we can all be a bit more like Robert!

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So, having spent a few minutes playing with Asterpix, I have created the following (using aaron grider’s original movie) and embedded some links in there to amazon. I have only done the first 30 seconds to give you an idea of what it could look like.

And look where it takes you - from preview to purchase in one easy step!

Technorati Tags: Asterpix, amazon

So, having spent a few minutes playing with Asterpix, I have created the following (using aaron grider’s original movie) and embedded some links in there to amazon. I have only done the first 30 seconds to give you an idea of what it could look like.

And look where it takes you - from preview to purchase in one easy step!

Technorati Tags: Asterpix, amazon

So, having spent a few minutes playing with Asterpix, I have created the following (using aaron grider’s original movie) and embedded some links in there to amazon. I have only done the first 30 seconds to give you an idea of what it could look like.

And look where it takes you - from preview to purchase in one easy step!

Technorati Tags: Asterpix, amazon

So, having spent a few minutes playing with Asterpix, I have created the following (using aaron grider’s original movie) and embedded some links in there to amazon. I have only done the first 30 seconds to give you an idea of what it could look like.

And look where it takes you - from preview to purchase in one easy step!

Technorati Tags: Asterpix, amazon

(via blending the mix)

So, having spent a few minutes playing with Asterpix, I have created the following (using aaron grider’s original movie) and embedded some links in there to amazon. I have only done the first 30 seconds to give you an idea of what it could look like.

And look where it takes you - from preview to purchase in one easy step!

Technorati Tags: Asterpix, amazon

(via blending the mix)

So, having spent a few minutes playing with Asterpix, I have created the following (using aaron grider’s original movie) and embedded some links in there to amazon. I have only done the first 30 seconds to give you an idea of what it could look like.

And look where it takes you - from preview to purchase in one easy step!

Technorati Tags: Asterpix, amazon

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