• 2nd Hebden Bridge Geek Up

    When: Wednesday January 27th @ 7:00pm Where: Hole in’t Wall, Hebden Bridge (map) Tomorrow night we're hosting the second Hebden Bridge Geekup, we skipped December because it fell on the 30th. The first was a success we had a good turn out. As with the last one, we're still finding...


  • EC2 Spot instances

    The thing I really like about Amazon's cloud stuff is they're constantly undermining themselves with new innovations - spot instances are another great example. Taking the utility metaphor a step further you can now rent their services when nobody else is for cheaper, like buying electricity at night. A lot...


  • Signups via twitter API

    This is possibly big news, something I've hoped they would do for a long time and something Fred Wilson voiced his support for a few weeks ago: Creating user accounts via the twitter API. Both the projects I'm working on full time could benefit from this. Sproozi of course because...


  • There's no money in it

    I followed up with a few potential investors who've had my pitch for Sproozi today. It's been a week or two since I heard from them and I honestly wasn't surprised when they came back with a no. Not hearing anything doesn't exactly show a great deal of excitement. I'm an...


  • GeekUp Hebden Bridge

    It's cold, wet and pretty nasty outside, but tonight is our first GeekUp in Hole in't Wall in Hedben Bridge @7:00. If you're local and a geek about anything, come down.