Back in April, I warned you all that the Integrated Ticketing System for Irish transport was in trouble. This has indeed happened. There was a report in the Sunday Business Post and in the Sunday Times that the project is being reviewed.
FON on boards.ie
There is an interesting thread about FON on boards.ie. I hope FON and boards.ie can find some way to work together.
My doctor is getting fired for being too old
Comment: Brenda Power writes about my GP, who is a local institution, getting fired by the health board. Pretty twisted stuff.
Digital Rights Ireland – CIA is monitoring personal bank data of Irish citizens
Digital Rights Ireland ยป CIA is monitoring personal bank data of Irish citizens. If you are concerned about this, follow the link and send an email to the Minister for Finance to ask that this matter is thoroughly investigated. (See Privacy International’s release for further details.)
FON gives away a million routers
FON has relaunched its site and is giving away a million routers for 5 euros each (see this Reuters report.) If you are in Ireland and want to get a subsidized FON social router, get it quick! Although we have a million of them on order, stocks are limited in the short term.
FON has also switched on the Bill feature, so now you can make money with your broadband! It is worth watching the FON video to find out more.
aspoke.com is looking for design partners
see the aspoke.com laptop skins blog.
Aspoke.com will pay you to see “An Inconvenient Truth”
To celebrate the launch of the aspoke.com blog, aspoke.com is doing something important – if you go to see ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, or if you link to our offer from your blog, we will send you a free laptop skin, worth around 24 dollars/20 euros.
“An Inconvenient Truth” is in around 80 US cinemas at the moment, and it will come to Europe and elsewhere over the coming months. It might be a bit of trouble to get to see it, but it is worth the trouble.
The aspoke.com blog will also cover neat ideas and interesting stuff we’re doing at aspoke.com.
freddy&ma custom handbags
Freddy&ma is a very impressive site for making a custom handbag. I am no handbag guru, but these are really nice, and the price is pretty good too, considering the amount of work that has to go into each piece. They also have a freddy&ma blog which is very informative. It’s clear they’ve come up wit their product through thinking along the same lines as aspoke.com laptop skins. Of course the aspoke.com product is at a much lower price point (around 20 euros versus 340 dollars).
60 percent of American users want to customize their laptops.
According to a survey carried out by Harris Interactive for Intel and Ultrasuede, ‘Forty percent of U.S. adult computer users find their laptop to be generic, boring, dull, sterile or lackluster, and 60 percent would like to be able to customize their laptop with options such as color, patterns and fabric’. (See Intel press release.) (I read about this at PGreenblog.)
We are doing all this today, at aspoke.com!
Understanding Outsourcing.
James Seng writes about outsourcing in Malaysia. He makes good observations, but I think there is more to outsourcing than meets the eye. Most people think that outsourcing is about cutting costs. In fact it’s not, it’s more commonly about raising money than saving money.