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  • Garlic & tomato squid with spinach & broad beans

    Recently, I ordered some squid from Ocado to make this Jamie Oliver recipe – Chargrilled squid with rustic guacamole

  • New year, new laptop (and new sticker!)

    Bought from Stephen Edward Graphics on the lovely Etsy.com

  • Get a free advice session on marketing & promoting your business

    In the spirit of Christmas generosity, I’m giving away a half-day of consultancy to a local startup or entrepreneur who needs help marketing and promoting themselves. Cambridge and East Anglia are full of clever people doing amazing things, with many…

  • How to Market Your Own Application: An Alfred App Case Study

    Those who have followed the Alfred development in the past year will know that we’ve discovered a lot through building our own community around it (possibly the most awesome community out there!) Last month, I gave a talk at Cambridge…

  • Twitter's other spam problem: Username chaos

    A few months ago, Twitter published a State of Twitter Spam blog post. It claimed to have reduced spam from fake accounts to little more than 1%, lowering the number of offers for prescription drugs, dodgy online scams and invitations…

  • Why You Should Avoid Mass-Emailing Using the "To" Field

    This may seem like an obvious blog post to most readers. If that’s the case, just move along, nothing to see here. However, if you’re wondering why people have been giving you snappy responses and a stern look when you…

  • Making the Most of User Feedback

    This is the third and final part in a mini series of posts on using a community forum to exchange ideas with your users. Part I: Why and when should I start my own community forum? Part II: Setting up…

  • Setting Up Your Forum: Top Tips for Using Get Satisfaction

    Recently, I started a short series of blog post on using a community forum to exchange with your users. In this second part, we’ll look at why we chose a particular platform and how we’ve used it since launch. Part…

  • Why I'm in love with IKEA's "Cat herding" campaign

    In case the news hasn’t made it to your corner of the office yet, here’s a YouTube video perfect for a Friday. IKEA’s campaign involved releasing 100 cats into a London IKEA store and letting them roam free. Whoddathunk hanging…

  • Why and When Should I Start a Community Forum?

    A week ago, we launched a community forum for Alfred and I couldn’t be happier to have done so. This series of post covers why we chose to start a forum, as well as some tips for setting up and…