Split and Chained - Looking at Paypal Adaptive Payments
Paypal recently released a whole heaps of new ways to use their services, I have been lucky enough to have been part of early beta testing and now no longer under those pesky NDAs can spill the beans on some of the new features. The two big releases from Paypal have been Adaptive Payments and Adaptive Accounts, Adaptive Payments is a collection of methods of payments that changes the way you do business online (at least that’s what the marketing department at Paypal said I still think they are pretty useful though) while Adaptive Accounts will allow you to generate your cus

Geocities real archives
While having lunch with a couple of Yahoo employees on their awesome Sunnyvale campus the discussion turned to Geocities demise. Earlier in the year myself and TheHodge interviewed Yahoo founder David Filo Founder after they announced the closure of Geocities during that interview David expressed a hope that it would be archived either by Yahoo or a third party when Yahoo closed it down. With the announcement of the final closure I was surprised they never announced this archive. Hours prior to to Geocities closure, Reocities was born a project to archive its content, it got a lot of twitter time including

Merging Blogs oh Joy
These last two days have been fun as I have merged the old Venture Skills blog and timnash.co.uk while I didn't write every post most of them were mine and as part of the split up I took over the blog and all its content. to be fair most was innane blogging babble, the first year the blog had just 2 posts note worth both tutorials on creating a digg like site using Drupal. However there are some posts I am more proud of, the Stumbler Mathematics while overly simplified was a great success and gave people

Password Searching as a service
While eating my dinner and watching the news I was struck by how the recent phishing attack against major email providers was a major news story. I was not struck because I thought it shouldn't be major news far from it. I was struck because the media normally never gets this stuff right!! Last week I released some of the statistics from a project we worked on earlier in the year that revealed 92% of people use the same password for their email as they do for other sites. One of the more interesting stats was actually from the follow up survey where almost a third of

Park Hampers SEO sucks
If your looking for a Hamper click here if your after Park Hampers site click here, this post is not about the actual saving scheme or hampers. Sometimes watching television can be frustrating and I don't mean because of the silliness of CSI awesome computing and forensic capabilities No what I find silly is the way advertisers try to leverage the web. So I w