Misc. Web Stats of Poorly Referenced Origin

I'm just saying that, if you're a pure web business (like say Edicy) and you're based in NYC/SoCal/London most of your customers are people who if you met...

it seemed funny at the time...

Half created as a joke/SEO site about 48 hours before Lehmans went under. After that it just seemed poor taste and I left it.

I'm toying with an auction site idea, mostly to brush up my .Net 3.5, and I have an interesting problem. If I have objects who's permissions, and possibly behaviour is dependant on the currently active user, how do I tell them about it?

I could first mark every object with an interface.

    public interface ICurrentUserAware
    {
        Person CurrentUser { get; set; }
    }

If you look at the bottom right of my site, you'll see a little Google Checkout box. You can send me money on your credit card by just clicking that button and following the instructions. (Try it now!)

The whole set-up process took 25 minutes, mostly fiddling with HTML forms. But it'll take 5 days for my bank to receive the PIN deposit* needed to unlock withdrawals.

* A bank transfer of 1-99p to confirm your account ownership.

Demodroid

You can't tell from the image, but those touch screen generated little balls are fading in and out while bouncing under Newtonian gravity. There's also some techno music in the background for early 90s nostalgia.

I'm seriously thinking of an Android phone, it's good stuff.

The Cube

Hardness being how severely a message affects your life.

Bigness means institutional or mass organisations. The State is the biggest thing, your pub locals are fairly small.

So Twitter is down near the origin, and a stock quote passed between two small pension funds is somewhere near the middle!

The unique promise of ubiquitous telecoms [TXTs, email, web, mobile phone, etc] is allowing a mass of hard small-to-small messages to substitute for a few big-to-small ones. If I have Scred, then I need my bank less. If I can vote, then I don't need a King.

It's been floating around for a while, but I think it deserves another link.

4.5/5 stars on meetup, and apparently we're all brilliant young talent too!

Geek Finance Dinner Crowd: Courtesy of adewale_oshineye's photostream

An old mail thread from about 6 months ago between myself and Antony Evans.