The uk beta is awesome! I would love to know when we can send money to UK and other EU accounts. Any stripe employees care to comment on any potential roll out roadmap outside of the US?
No. Just no. You are wrong. Red brick universities are not ex-polys. Just read the Wikipedia link in the parent post. I went to University of Sheffield, which is one of the Red Brick Universities and it has always been an Uni. Sheffield Halam, however, is the ex poly.
Wow. This page is amazingly slow on my 4s. Scrolling and zooming in take a few hundred milliseconds before they respond. I'm not sure if it's down to number of examples on the site but they may want to look into mobile performance.
To add to the mix my personal pet peeve is to not qualify that my password and password confirmation aren't equal before you submit the form and I then have to retype both and possibly lose other information that I have typed in like creditcard details. And don't get me started on sites that don't allow special characters in their passwords...
Generally it is getting less useful but there are till a few tweaks i couldn't live without:
zephyr - task switching via a 2 finger swipe. A great way to switch back and forth between 2 apps
Swipeshiftcaret - move the cursor around by swiping rather than having to hold and then position it, which I always find fiddly. Great to make quick corrections.
AndroidlockXT - unlock my phone via a swipe pattern rather than a number code. Looks much cooler and is quicker I feel.
Sbsettings/ncsettings - easier access to things like wifi and Airplane mode which I use more often than you think
There some other ones like 5 icon dock and double decker switcher which are cool but not really essential. And zeppelin to change my carrier name to any logo I like.
~200 staff? Sounds like an awful lot. And I imagine the front end and backed are kinda done now so after a couple of devs maintaining the system, a sys admin or two, some testers, hr and ceo that leaves ~190 scanning in the documents. Or am I oversimplifying this?
OK lets look at the facts here. Blackberry phones have become widely used by the urban poor because they are free on cheap tarrifs. BBM is essentially free text messaging and so also widely used by the urban poor. Its should come as no surprise that the riots were co-ordinated by BBM. Its just text messaging, quick and easy. I find it hard to believe that the rioters running round London was browsing facebook and twitter.
The comparison should not be made with social networking sites (which the term social media is synonymous with), just because BBM uses the internet, rather the comparison should be made with text messaging. I like how the term 'social media' has been used here. What is social media? Anything that is used for communication? So are we talking about controlling text messaging, phone calls, email? Because to organise this amount of organised theft and vandalism these avenues of communication are more likely to be the methods of choice.