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I have moved... From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1205 days old)

...over to another host. You can find my blog at http://portalbility.blogspot.com/ now. Hope to see you there!… more

Monetizing online communities - (Joao Martins) From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1326 days old)

There are various reasons to develop the business on a community platform. Our biggest issue must be how to realise commercial gains from online communities without compromising the typically non-com… more

Fernando Canavarro - hotshot designer (Joao Martins) From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1353 days old)

Check out this guy, Fernando Canavarro - I've worked with him in the past, he's a talented London based designer with a product design background, but with a rare view/understanding of the actual obje… more

Unanimis Consultancy - Digital advertising specialist (Joao Martins) From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1353 days old)

This is who I work for - Unanimis Consultancy Unanimis is a digital advertising specialist operating across all media helping marketers and media owners create tangible value and commercial return … more

Blogs - program developers (Joao Martins) From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1353 days old)

Check out these blogs. Both of them are programmers who work/worked for m3 media services (www.m3.net), the company which provides all adserving technology solutions to the company I work for - Unani… more

Former founder of Value Click joins Adviva From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1353 days old)

Rupert Staines, one of the founders of Value Click, has just joined Adviva (www.adviva.net) as Vice-president, Europe. Adviva have just landed an £8 million funding round to expand into the European … more

Pitching skills - presentations From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1353 days old)

Edward Tufte, a renowned expert on the presentation of information's site - www.edwardtufte.com He comments that 'The Powerpoint style routinely disrupts, dominates and trivializes content... Power… more

Controversial Advertising From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1355 days old)

In the hey day of exactly how far can you push your sense of humour in political or religious satire... … more

Last.fm - Music profiling community From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1355 days old)

Last.fm, where you can feed your playlists and get profiled, tags and organically discover new music, as you get linked with people to a similar taste to yours...My personal profile: http://www.last.… more

Online Advertising Blog - Adverblog From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1355 days old)

Interesting source of information on online advertising, and many topics related to it such as: - Adv technology - Advergames - Advertainment - Advertising awards - Advertising standar… more

Scobleizer From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1363 days old)

This gentleman is one of microsoft's creme de la creme. But it doesnt stop him from praising the competition and pointing out where Bill is going wrong... interesting read! http://scobleizer.wordp… more

Podcasting From Joao_Martins in Portalbility - dotcom blog (1363 days old)

Podcasting is the distribution of audio files, such as radio programs, over the internet using RSS syndication for listening on mobile devices and personal computers. A podcast is a web feed of audio … more

Corn, corned beef and spam fritters. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1455 days old)

Why is it called CORNED BEEF? It has no sodding corn in it. If it had those foul little bits of corn in it then I wouldn’t eat it. One of the least known facts is that there has only ever been … more

Dogging...a final solution. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1456 days old)

Dogging. A member of a website that I am a moderator for asked for suggestions as to what he should do to amuse himself at the expense of the local doggers. For those not in the know dogging is … more

MiB Promises to Write More Often. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1457 days old)

I must write more often. I must write more often. I must write more often. I must write more often. I must write more often. I must write more often. I thought I would write a few lines in the… more

The Noble Art Of Rubber Dicking! From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1493 days old)

A military thought occurred to me today. As a young NCO I was always being rubber dicked by the RSM or one of the other senior NCOs. About five minutes ago, whilst giving birth to an otter, it dawn… more

Harry Potter And The Rectal Prolapse From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1570 days old)

So, the latest improbably named book has been released, the queues have gone and the wife has read it from cover to cover within 23 hours. Whilst she was out yesterday I had a conversation with the… more

Bars, Smoking and Murphy. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1574 days old)

I had to go to Ireland on business this week. Not one of my favourite destinations as it is a bit too familiar. I had a couple of Murphy’s finest and a bar snack before retiring to a sweaty room fo… more

Biff Chits, Bosses, Headhunters and Getting Old. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1582 days old)

Five years ago, when I sold my own business, I was unemployable. I had gone through 150 job applications, over 50 interviews and received 3 verbal job offers that all failed to materialise. One compa… more

I’ve Reached That Age When....! From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1588 days old)

About a year ago I noticed a tickle on the underside of my nose. I kept rubbing it and it went away only to come back a few minutes later. After some initial investigation and a minute in front… more

Mice and Screaming Women. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1591 days old)

We have mice in the kitchen. A couple of days ago I saw a shadow scuttle across the kitchen floor as I walked into the room. With a house that is almost 110 years old you are going to get mice occa… more

The Tooth Fairy and Other Lies. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1591 days old)

We spend so much of our time trying to get our children to be honest in their relationships. We punish them when they tell lies yet at the same time we perpetrate some giant porkies on our kids. … more

Collecting Money In Toilets. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1603 days old)

I am back from the land of ham and cheese baguettes. I have seen few examples of progress in France since I first went there in 1977. The police are still divided into different types who all compe… more

Poppies, Slaughter and Family Honour. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1607 days old)

On Sunday morning, probably after you read this, I will set off for my biannual trip to Paris Airshow. In June as you drive down the A1 from Lille to Paris the poppies of the Somme valley are in full … more

Visiting The Lost Uncle. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1607 days old)

This afternoon I had to do one of my least favourite things…..ironing. Tomorrow morning I have to drive to Paris for the air show, yes that time is upon us again. I love some bits of Paris air show… more

Management By Bean Counting. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1610 days old)

I identified a problem with a product at work. We hand make these things and I thought that this was frankly ludicrous when we owned a machine that could make parts of the item for next to nothing w… more

Pulling Arses Out of Fires. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1612 days old)

This week started off just the same as the past few weeks. I know that I have targets to achieve in the working week. Some I set for myself and others are set for me. Every week however produces a … more

Chickens, Dickens, Teachers and Aardvarks. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1612 days old)

I know the title sounds like a firm of lawyers but I have to attract your attention somehow. Back to the subject of school. What is it with teachers at the local school? They inform the childr… more

Dressmaking for Men In Night Vision Goggles. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1612 days old)

The wife informed me on Friday night that we had until Tuesday to produce a costume for our 10 year old daughter who was playing the role of an apple seller in the school production of Oliver Twist. … more

Nobody Likes A Bullshitter. From maninblack in Manifestations of Mind (1613 days old)

A fact; nobody likes a bullshitter. They make the world go round, every industry has them and some even manage to spiral upwards by leaving each position before they are caught. The military however h… more