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Archive for December, 2009

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Posted in Stuff we like, tagged on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Everyone we all wish you a merry Christmas, and to help any  people who are not in the spirit yet check out just how excited this little kid was.

In my day we were lucky to get a lump of coal from Santa…

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Picture the future

Posted in Our Views, Stuff we like, tagged , , , , , on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Having found this last week I have to say I am amazed. The “Sea Dragon” technology can not only sort your pictures and let you view thousands of them at once, it can also analyse them for constants and tag photos together. If you check out the youtube demo above, especially [...]

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WWW……or Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Posted in Our News, tagged , , , , , on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Where can you find gingerbread love hearts, Pretzels, Spanish Churros, Belgium Waffles, German Feuerzangenbowle (mulled wine), beer, Krakauer (spicy German sausage) and authentic German French fries (not sure how that one works?) all in one place? At the annual winter wonderland at Hyde Park of course, who needs to leave London to experience an [...]

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Credit cards not just for Squares

Posted in Stuff we like, tagged , , , , , on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Big press (at least in the Blogging world) this week is Square launching a novel new way to accept credit card payments for small and mobile businesses. Using what is effectively a credit card skimming device and some smart new software anyone with an iphone/android phone/any phone with a headphone socket can take payment from [...]

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A Very Viral Xmas

Posted in Stuff we like, tagged , , on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A brilliant christmas viral here for everyone, admittedly this was launched last year, but that just goes to show the great re-usability of launching a Christmas ad.

With over a million views on youtube this has to be yet another sure example of how a relatively cheap viral launched at the right [...]

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OED Word Of the Year 2009…

Posted in Our Views, tagged , , , on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s official everyone, the OED word of the year for 2009 is….. “unfriend”.

unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.
As in, “I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.”
Well there you go. Have a look on the OUP Blog for [...]

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Foster’s Tracks Tweets

Posted in Our Views, Stuff we like, tagged , , , , , , on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Browsing through the world-wide web this week we stumbled upon the Foster’s Ozometer. At first a little confused (all right a lot) about exactly what an Ozometer is, all became clear after a little looking around. The nifty little website actually analyses Twitter tweets in real-time, and gives them a rating on how well they [...]

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The Phone Box Experiment

Posted in Industry News, Stuff we like, tagged , , , , , on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Skype are running a rather unusual experiment at the moment. They have sent one man (Rob Cavazos, who is usefully fluent in German, English and Spanish) into the middle of the countryside somewhere in Europe, given him a tent and a phone box connected to Skype. To make things exciting they have put a webcam [...]

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Festive

Posted in Our News, tagged , , , on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Getting in the spirit of all things festive, team BEcause got involved today with the annual Christmas decs. Have a look at our progression from regular office to winter wonderland.
Starting with recovering our veteran tree from the back of the broom cupboard….

After unwrapping the marginally dusty tree Phillipa and Nis set about giving it the [...]

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