Chip and PIN By Nic Price on 18 February 2005 — 1 min read Chip and PIN as a method of payment has been in the UK for a couple of months now, and according to all the major card companies is the most secure system so far. According to this info on UK government website crimereduction.gov.uk, the initiative is costing £1.1billion. This to combat plastic fraud which in... More
If content is king… By Nic Price on 10 February 2005 — 1 min read …context is god! Now… which categories to put this post in? 🙂 More
Tagging tags tagging tags tagging tags By Nic Price on 3 February 2005 — 1 min read In today’s Online section in the Guardian there’s a piece by Jim McClellan on the success of Flickr (a photo sharing and organising website). According to co-founder Caterina Fake, in less than a year its membership has already reached 245,000 and grows at a rate of 5-10% a week. McClellan discusses the possibilities brought about... More
Result By Nic Price on 2 February 2005 — 1 min read Top search result for Bill Gates this morning on the new MSN Search takes you to… Bill Gates as Mabus More
Microsooooooooooft takes on Google By Nic Price on 1 February 2005 — 1 min read Today Microsoft launches MSN Search which it hopes will give Larry and Sergei a run for their money. Looks like the folks behind it have taken a leaf out of the minimalist design book, and the results are delivered in a very familiar style to Google’s. However good it is, personally it would take an... More
I wonder what effect this will have on the way we buy houses By Nic Price on 31 January 2005 — 1 min read The UK Land Registry have made all Land Register and Title Plan information since 2001 available on the internet. For £2 you can find out how much your neighbour paid for their gaff. You can’t search by someone’s name, but if you know their house number and street name you can find out the price... More