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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I never have time to just browse the web. Whenever I’m online, I’m either testing something I run, or looking at a site recommended by someone. The only exception is 5 minutes in the morning for The Register and my RSS feeds through Netvibes.
Today I found a few minutes to roam away off the trodden [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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I recently attended a talk by Matthew Poepsel of Gomez. Matthew was talking to a small gathering of senior managers involved with online in the insurance and banking sectors.
Matthew’s premise: Use experience is make or break for Financial Services web channels. You can infer a couple of things from that premise. The first: Matthew [...]
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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I have long been a proponent of open source. The power of the community, the technical prowess required to take full advantage of it and the many successful eBusinesses built on top of using it (as opposed to producing it) seem to indicate that Open Source is indeed essential to success. But the argument is [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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