Martyn on April 10th, 2010

I’m not sure how many times I have heard those words. As someone involved in Internet startups on two sides of the investment fence they send a chill down my spine. Usually voiced by someone who thinks they have found the next eBay or Amazon killer application. Do you see many sites [...]

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Martyn on February 26th, 2010

An open letter from Jake to Albert.
Dear Albert,
I decided not to respond to your sarcasm and threats for these reasons:

It is not one of ours.  Check the top of the invoice, it has a different company name
Calling me a cupid stunt does not incentivise me (Edited for family readers)
I am sorry “file permissions are incorrect” [...]

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Martyn on February 10th, 2010

Today a forum member posted comments from twitter support after they refused his API application:
Hello,
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we do not allow personal branding of Applications with Traffic Exchange URLs. I should also inform you that all of our external links from tweets are tagged “nofollow,” as such, tweeting from that source will [...]

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