Author: nickjones

Two takes on commoditisation one by Hugh“And selling commodities is hard. If you don’t give the customer exactly what she wants” and one from Geoff Moore“What you want to do is overcome the force of commoditization, which works to your disadvantage, eroding your margins.” Interesting reads

Visited my Pilates Teacher Daphne on her second night of the play chronicling her time in Cairo as a bellydancer. An excellent performance with some great bellydancing as well. The second part was by Caroline Ann Gold called Clinically Famous and was a dramatised version of her stay at The Priory with agitated depression coupled […]

My friend Thierry who runs Nevada Sports, a really passionate person dedicated to ski/snowboard/mountainbike sales and rental in Les Gets, France. Thierry is keen to raise his internet profile. I’ve suggested to him blogging but to no avail. His latest attempt at a web site is using Clic online to implement a flash effort. Running […]

A really cool way of testing your personality is at PersonalDNA.com using really slick sliders and 2D layouts. I’m a Free wheeling Leader apparently And two of my children are:-The Animated Visionary and The Cautious Director:- So perhaps we will get a family business up and running one day althought our common thread is a […]

Here is a still of my first video Skype call with Nick. Only problem is it seems to crash his network 🙁Its really cool, although a biyt ‘jerky’ . I like the PIP (picture in picture) mode.

John Battelle reports from Barrons that “As Google starts to spend the $5 billion it raised through two stock offerings in the past year and a half, its senior executives have aggressively sold shares. Co-founders Brin and Page have each sold more than $1.5 billion of stock. CEO Eric Schmidt sold $493 million. Omid Kordestani, […]

Robert Scoble suggested, as an experiment we should all blog the expression brrreeeport to see how it travels around the world on on this technorati page. I guess it all fits in well with what Samuel Blanning of Southampton mentioned in The Times letter page “apart from its penchant for nauseating neologisms, such as “blogosphere” […]

Well done to Anglian Water. Woke up this morning to find that when flushing the toilet the water backed right up the bowl. Ah I thought the pesky drain blocked again (at one time it was always getting blocked) so I took my trusty rods to the end of my drain (we share it with […]

Suzanne forwarded me along the web address of her chairmaker. If anyone could benefit from a good blog like English Cut did then Dan could! Just imagine a blog eulogising about the creation of an English chair made from coppiced ash. It could follow the cycle of tree management to the creation of the chair […]

What is so special about Tuesdays? Why does everyone seem to want to organise events for Tuesday evenings! Tomorrow night I have the choice, in Cambridge UK, of the following events:- CHASE Postwatch – The postal services – Tue 7th Feb, Meet first Tuesday in every monthCFEL David Cleevely (Serial Entrepreneur & Founder of Analysys) […]