If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The poster child of the online insurance market just launched a redesigned website. Gone is the challenger spirit that aimed to redefine insurance the way easyJet redefined holidays. Swiftcover has been assimilated.
The tired chicken-wearing-a-headset picture still features large on [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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I recently wrote a post arguing that Open Source is essential to eBusiness success. Essential it may be, but it is by no means sufficient. Open source is just one third of the recipe. Ingredient number 2 is Agile Development methodologies.
Agile software development is a conceptual framework for software engineering.
Agile methods emphasize face-to-face communication over [...]
Posted on November 23rd, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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When was the last time anyone spent time playing a viral game for a long time, then sending it on to all their friends? I mean really, when?
The Net used to be teeming with more viral stuff than a third world biology lab. Today, good examples of viral games and videos are much harder to [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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Got mine on Friday night. Left a late meeting and made it to West Street in Horsham around 7. The O2 store is just opposite the Carphone Warehouse, so I peeked at both looking to ascertain the size of the queues before deciding to go in. Both had about 10-15 people inside, most of them [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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Just a quick one to let everyone know I’ve got an iPhone and I’m using it to write this post. The thing rocks and the wordpress plugin mobileadmin makes it really a pleasure to post from the Jesus phone. I’ve also installed iWphone for my mobile readers’ pleasure.
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Posted on November 13th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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MORE TH>N is a proud participant in together.com, a government-sponsor initiative aimed at raising awareness of climate change and help people reduce their carbon emissions.
In the run-up to Christmas, they want to offer drivers a chance to show off their green credentials and save 20% on their car insurance. How? Simple, just complete this quiz [...]
Posted on November 8th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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