May 2008

My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 19th through May 23rd

May 23, 2008 Asides

These are my del.icio.us bookmarks for May 19th through May 23rd: /Message: The Growing Backlash Against PR Spam, And The Rationale For MicroPR – Brilliant post that outlines the PR spam problem and how to solve it far better than anything I could write. Hueniverse: Scaling a Microblogging Service – Part II – An alternative [...]

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SAPPHIRE08: some stats

May 23, 2008 Asides

Summize: 240 Tweets with #sapphire08 tag (less than I would have thought) Technorati: 18 blog posts (way off the mark) Eventtrack: 4,484 items including photos (but that includes duplicated items coming via places like FriendFeed) Flickr: 176 (way off as well) Picasa: 279 (all Gregor by the looks of things) All of which goes to [...]

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Pontificating about pricing and negotiation

May 23, 2008 General

Panel : Setting Rates and Negotiating Uploaded by GoingSolo While in Lausanne, I participated on a panel with Stowe Boyd and Martin Roell, moderated by Suw Charman. The video runs rather long but the discussion is interesting as it dips into a range of topics including the kinds of negotiation people are prepared to undertake, [...]

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On meeting HMRC (sort of)

May 22, 2008 General

While in Berlin I happened upon Ben Newton, an Inspector with HMRC who’s got something to do with SAP’s HMRC implementation back in the UK. He was talking about shared services, one of those topics du jour that  is outsourcing by another name. We chucklede about how most people think it’s about throwing IT over [...]

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Phew – back to base after GoingSolo and SAPPHIRE08

May 22, 2008 General

Apologies for the silence this week. I’ve been on a punishing travel schedule that involved flying to Lausanne, getting a train to Zurich, then a flight to Berlin before returning to Malaga late last night and then another two+ hours driving. It’s all been in a good cause. Lausanne was the location for GoingSolo – [...]

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 14th

May 15, 2008 Asides

These are my del.icio.us bookmarks for May 14th: Widget Metrics | Venture Chronicles – I have a Newsgator widget to carry sponsored material plus the Irregulars widget. They add content, which I like. Freud’s large nude sets art world record – CNN.com – Benefits Supervisor Sleeping – just for giggles The Value of Investing in [...]

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PKF gets £102K fine, what about the Big 4 failures?

May 14, 2008 General

AccountingWeb records that 8 YEARS after a failed audit, ICAEW fines PKF £75,000 plus £27,000 costs. Here’s what they got wrong: The committee said that PKF had “failed to obtain sufficient knowledge” of the client’s subsidiaries, “failed to plan and perform the audit of the group to obtain reasonable assurance that the group financial statements [...]

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More good news: FreeAgent adds Uptons

May 14, 2008 General

This morning must be a day when the on-demand gods are smiling on the accounting vendors. FreeAgent (I have a tiny holding) just announced that Upton & Co has joined the ‘FreeAgent Friendly’ band of professional firms willing to work with FreeAgent. Uptons is based in West Yorkshire with satellite offices in both London and [...]

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Another tweak: FriendFeed comments plugin

May 14, 2008 General

This morning I added the FriendFeed WordPress comments plugin. If you’re not familiar with FriendFeed it’s a way of aggregating all the places where you have a presence that are supported by FriendFeed. These include RSS feeds, blogs, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter – the list goes on. From the plug-in blurbs: This plugin will allow you [...]

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