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New Scotland’s Homes site officially launches on Monday!
Last September we decided at the Herald & Times that we need a site to accompany some of our print supplements. In the past s1 filled that role with the sites s1jobs and s1homes that I helped built...
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A busy week: Three new product launches in four days
This week my small dev team of three released three new products. Each of them have been weeks or months in development and it’s great to finally get them all out in the wild. The all-new...
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Slippery: One-click, read-only, burner mailboxes
A few weeks ago I was playing with Glen Maddern’s site Dumb Domains, a site that suggests ridiculous domain names based on the new batch of gTLDs recently released. There were some funny ones in there...
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New touchscreen and web game in one
I’ve always been a fan of developing desktop and kiosk applications in Flash. Many people see it as a web-only technology, but over the years it has matured into a very capable programming language....
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s1jobs 2.0 wins Online Excellence award
The new version of s1jobs has won the Online Excellence category at the prestigious Marketing Society Star Awards in Glasgow. The site, which was designed and built by my technical team last year, beat...
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New site launch: heraldscotland.com
We finally flicked the switch tonight on our first Polopoly-powered site! Heraldscotland.com is now officially a public beta, running in parallel with the main Herald and Sunday Herald sites for the...
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heraldscotland.com loses beta badge, goes fully public
At 2pm on Monday we took heraldscotland.com out of public beta and directed all of our traffic from www.theherald.co.uk and www.sundayherald.com to the new site. We ran the beta for just over a month...
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We won the regional TV news bid for Scotland!
Ok, first a quick bit of background: The Government are funding a pilot scheme for independent TV news production in Scotland, the North East of England and Wales. In Scotland, this would replace the...
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Sunday Herald Life app launches this weekend
This weekend sees the launch of the Sunday Herald Life app, the first public app I’ve released based on the Adobe DPS platform. Issue number one is available now, free of charge from iTunes:...
View ArticleFour years on: Slippery Email
Four years ago I launched a small experiment called Slippery Email. The idea was to make it really, really easy to set up a burner email account to avoid spam. Inspired by low-friction services like...
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