Okay, time to get some IP off my chest and let “the resistance” conquer my “lizard brain”. Build something you need and others will need it too, right? I must lose thousands to the tax man because I’m too lazy to keep a log book of all my business trips. So, the juniors at New Media Labs have built an iPhone application that logs your business trips to a web site (http://triplogger.info) via a web service. At the end of the...

I’ve been acting as NML’s MD, Sales Person, Software Architect (occasionally), developer (even more occasionally) and a bunch of other roles for two and a half years now [typical entrepreneur stuff]. NML has always been a lean outfit made up almost entirely of software developers. If there was one role I’ve wanted to fill during this time it has been the one of sales person. I honestly think I didn’t fill the role simply because I...

So much hard work has gone into NML and so much has been achieved. This is a reflection on some of the highlights, I needed to do this for myself and the NML team. Recently NML’s shareholding changed and I am now the only shareholder, this has freed me up to make other exciting decisions which I will be announcing in due course. Surviving two and a half years of tech start-up during these very difficult times defies the odds,...

“The Peace Parks Foundation is a non-profit organisation that facilitates the establishment of transfrontier conservation areas (peace parks) and develops human resources, thereby supporting sustainable economic development, the conservation of biodiversity and regional peace and stability.” (http://www.peaceparks.org)   I was really happy when I was received with open arms by the people of Peace Parks – they made me feel like I...

Adora is a marketing CMS platform that is currently being developed by Global Vision and is being built to replace their highly successful current offering, Eureka.  The driving force behind Adora is communication, not just marketing, through all effective communications channels.  Using Adora, marketers will be able to communicate effectively with consumers and be able to maintain a complete picture of consumer relationships to their...

In 2007 when facebook was huge (well it is still huge, but 2007 was a time when we talked about our Crackbook Addictions and we got a huge kick out of getting wallposts and we were as proud of our facebook “friends” count and our wallpost count as some twits are about the number of twitter followers they have now days [I'm one of them!]) Vodaspam hadn’t smelt SMS integration into Facebook and I figured it would be an...