tek_fin Following @PayWithIsis UI reveal at #mwc12, some thoughts around mobile wallet UI : http://t.co/4r642rIR #nomoreleather @square @movenbank
@tek_fin nice post. For more on skeumorphism this is a good post http://t.co/5CVjePJ3
I leave the country and go offline for a few hours and look what happens. Megson, Murdoch, Davy Jones. Quiet day.
High ratio of suits per square metre. (@ London City Airport (LCY) w/ 6 others) http://t.co/jMFJ7URy
@BrettTechLawyer just seen it arrive. What is it?
@marovdan hello. When do you get to Zurich? Are you around this evening?
Stand back @hantot is throwing metaphorical hand grenades.
@sytaylor any source for that mega stat?
sytaylor Stat of the week. 10% increase in mobile penetration increases GDP in developing nations by 1.4% #mwc12
@Paul_Woodhouse1 I know. Just deciding what the least we will take is. Pressure as there is a house we like.
Just had the first sensible offer on our house. 10k under asking. Times like this when I wish I had better negotiating skills.
@kcorrick does it come with a lifetime subscription and a personal 1-1 with all the speakers? Ouch.
@victoriajane yes but it would lead to me getting a slap/put on the sex offenders register.
@timd advanced technique.
@Paul_Woodhouse1 @superjeans @hantot must have been very big then.
New technique for Elbonics battles. Gently rubbing elbow up and down on opponents arm. Only works on male heterosexual passengers. #Armrest
“@FinalBullet: Leaving fulltime @madebymany job on 23rd March to do new project p/t over summer.” sounds intriguing…
rachelbotsman Peer-to-peer lending platform launches in China http://t.co/PBUXbmbQ via @psfk #collcons #futureofmoney
hubmum High time I badgered you all to help us fund YRS2012 again I think! http://t.co/85KBjvK2 and THANK YOU 2 all funders so far xxx
@haddington WTF?! Really?
“@regvulture: Commbank shouts free beer, meals, to promote NFC payments http://t.co/bFNlzUrB” includes mention of Kaching Kachampions…
RT @HacksHackersLDN: “How the FT shifted from native apps to web apps” - @sjpinches at #HHLdn http://t.co/lSHK8KUK cc @hantot
@Armo I stopped reading after the first two sentences. Thanks.
“@sytaylor: The big thing I’m getting from #mwc12 this year is big slow telcos trying to think like startups for survival” Banks soon?
@armo seeing as you went to Finovate Europe surely it is only fair that I go to Finovate Spring? http://t.co/9TdR18MZ
@hautepop @katylindemann phablet is a large phone verging on a tablet eg Samsung Note.
@kcorrick I have just registered http://t.co/rObhk7vG to cover that one off. Only photos of tweets are allowed.
“@guardiantech: PayPal casts doubt on Near Field mobile payments systems http://t.co/tYgZHrxy” one for @tek_fin
@hautepop @katylindemann I am guessing phablet and rurban are good for the Tumblr though?
@hautepop you have ruined it with your intelligence and knowledge ;) Cc @katylindemann
“@mwasnidge: @aden_76 I set you up a workstation for when you come and innovate shit for me. http://t.co/gg7p7Q58” inspirational
On Thursday @betonytaylor and I will be speaking at this event. http://t.co/GchTtqnI Can anyone tell me what ‘Glocal’ means? #Neologism
chunter, chunter, swear, Lotus Notes, chunter, swear, Microsoft Excel, swear, swear etc.
@craigwebster Of course. They only have two years worth so I still want more.
@craigwebster Foresight in hindsight required by me.
@craigwebster @betajames I run a tweetnest which captures them but you can only go back 3200 tweets in the API. Full extract would be cool.
betajames I wonder when regular Twitter users will have the same amount of access to their own account archives that companies now do.
superjeans “we need that human elephant” #QOTD from @HanTot
@Mattcartoon No I just tore the headset off and threw it.
@r4isstatic @betonytaylor I like the sound of that.
Nero .@litmanlive for @KernelMag on Pinterest and “digital materialism” http://t.co/JspFl7qQ
twofourseven Samsung, Visa and LloydsTSB unveil #NFC payments for London2012 Olympic athletes. No date for consumer launch. http://t.co/faBjc7mW #mwc
jamesbridle I wrote something over-excited about visiting CERN: http://t.co/0FkrnweA
My microphone is not working so my contributions to the team meeting so far have been swearing and a series of annoyed facial expressions.
hsbc_uk_press Economic news briefing - ‘The Subtle Bazooka’ http://t.co/qTmKf7Dz #eurozone #eu
A rare full house in the Sheffield office. The level of sighing is almost deafening.
katebennet RT @jonmatonis O2 to launch mobile money transfer app to rival Barclays’ Pingit http://t.co/ECKX8LOL <- now this could be interesting
BrettTechLawyer Does any regulator of any kind truly believe that having a dusty policy on an intranet is sufficient?
dgwbirch Here’s a green idea: just send out one press release from #MWC12 saying that everyone is partnering with everyone else on mobile payments
@hubmum Thanks. Afternoon ok?
@hubmum From my limited observations saying what you want has served you very well. Talking of which, I could do with a chat about the 9th.
Gutted that I missed the beginning of Fires of Babylon on BBC 4.
@hubmum You can say what ever you want
@hubmum Sub heading - FANning the flames. #YouCanHaveThatOneForFree
@hantot “@mobinauten: Visa teams with Vodafone http://t.co/XTFhYLvq” assume you know all about this.
@ncockerh I have Office 2010 so no need then? I have not used the transition effects. Does it have an equivalent of Keynote Fire transition?
@ncockerh Not heard of PPTPlex before. What exactly does it do?
@neilkirkman No comment.
Cut, Paste, Crop, Rinse, Repeat. #Innovation
@twofourseven Good detective skills. Pretty sure I have not seen that story but I have been offline all day.
@Paul_Woodhouse1 You…spell checking….it’s like me giving out diet advice.
@shamir_k @rshevlin Maybe it should just be called ‘What online banking should look like in 2012 FFS’
@CandaceKuss Pithy/Pissy
@twofourseven The Olympics will make for some interesting launches and experiments. Did they confirm they were working with Lloyds?
@yranchere @ndebock Not sure what I think about the Skeumorphism in the Square photo…ugh leather effect.
@twofourseven The key question to ask about NFC/mobile payments is ‘Where will the secure element be?’
@rshevlin bank frontend 2.0
The reluctant disciple http://t.co/U4Vz2jUP Cracking stuff from the preacher that is @saulcozens
@CandaceKuss If this preso was anything more than cutting and pasting tweets I would be all over that hand drawn trend. It is not.
@neilkirkman I will send you that spreadsheet so you can pull out some key stuff.
@thegreatgonzo Hmmmm I will be brave and say yes.
@tek_fin I have never been to Switzerland at all.
@tek_fin Same here. Rubbish isn’t it? I am off to Zurich on Wednesday though which is nice.
*Bored of Powerpoint face*
@tek_fin Are you at #MWC? You should say hello to @twofourseven if you get chance.
@twofourseven But then again so are 60,000 others!
@twofourseven I have been offline most of the day so not sure who I know that is there. @polnavarro is there, he is a damn fine fella.
newsmary This is cool. @infovore has made books out of his bookmarked links http://t.co/2Vb3pEFt /via @tobybarnes #printartefacts
flowingdata Feltron Report 2010/2011 is out http://t.co/2yNGf8YY
Techmeme Leveraging Zong, PayPal Gets Serious About Mobile Carrier Payments (@leenarao / TechCrunch) http://t.co/e0UCzare http://t.co/M9u841n6
TEDxLeeds1 Thanks to @mswainwright - a great write up! http://t.co/BWkjTtvM
FinancialBrand Facebook is for contests. Twitter is for intra-industry networking and CRM at big banks. YouTube is for commercials. LinkedIn for HR.
FinancialBrand You want a social media strategy in 133 characters? Here ya go…
@twofourseven unfortunately I am not and am jealous of anyone who is. Having fun?
‘I thought it would be better if it was doctored by the Doctor’ PHD brag from @superjeans about some pictures he is editing in MS paint.
@betonytaylor It was requested by @neilkirkman. Did you know he is very into musical theatre?
@DuenaBlomstrom I always bring the #bankingcuteness
Breaking out the pink powerpoint template and cutting and pasting some tweets.
A good example of why banks need to implement two factor authentication http://t.co/0J3Yx8jp Keep those details safe people.
Too many pie charts not enough pies.
tomtaylor Know anyone who is looking for a desk in Shoreditch? We’ve got one free in the BRIG. Drop me a line.
LettersOfNote Spike Milligan once jokingly sent a telegram to his paranoid friend, Peter Sellers. It read, “IGNORE FIRST TELEGRAM.”
It has been an interesting morning seeing the HSBC group results and associated processes from a few different angles.
@cmogle I usually weep after the meetings
Social media monitoring tools have a long way to go. I should be able to easily tag items to make story threads.
@haddington Left before it ended. Obviously we would have won though.
@haddington I was fine. I was awake at 5 though which I could have done without. Nibbles Pizza helped with hangover massively.
Learning a lot about social media monitroing tools this morning.
@ncockerh what a great way to start the week
@mwasnidge I agree. You can’t change which side of the city you were born on…unless you are called Pucci that is ;)
@topfife I think that paints an accurate picture of the kind of people that call themselves bladesmen. They should all be on the register.
@topfife note the Owls sing the more law abiding, she said no Evans, she said no.
@topfife yes I believe the inbred swine do sing a Ched biased rape song.
@topfife also Wednesday chants are. Notoriously unimaginative.
@topfife rumours of some racist chanting from blades. I don’t believe it though
@mwasnidge I accept we are tin pot. Both of us. Big city, shit football clubs.
@Paul_Woodhouse1 not happening. Meggo in an untenable position.
@mwasnidge really?! Think your brain has been affected by the Wisconsin weather.
@mwasnidge classic derby. Awful for the neutral. Worse for the pig.
@Paul_Woodhouse1 if that has not set him up for a life of being an owl I don’t know what will. A great day.
Paul_Woodhouse1 RT @Danny_Batth Guess what….Still Smiling x
@mwasnidge probably for the best. It was ugly viewing to any one from outside the seven hills.
@topfife it was fucking brilliant. Football delivers the most brutal of lows and the most magnificent of highs. The heroin of the common man
@neilkirkman I might still be drunk! Bacon, sausage and egg on a 3rd please. Ps congratulations.
Today I attended the third highest attended game in England. The day of a cup final and a derby between the two biggest clubs in London.
Today I learned, it’s magic, you know. You’ll never get past Semedo.
If I was at Wembley I would be very worried about a penalty shoot out. Cc @neilkirkman
As if there was ever any doubt. This city is ours. Beautiful.
“@coxiraghi: Come on you blue and white wizards!!” < +1. Nervous.
tek_fin .@parkparadigm presentation at #lift12 is online: http://t.co/rxsAdXix < tons of startups to understand why @anthemis is exciting cc @lift
@rachelcoldicutt I am glad you glossed over my awful attempt at humour.
@rachelcoldicutt is it a macaw?
@tek_fin didn’t IDEO work on the save the change thing?
petervan When Passion Isn’t Enough http://t.co/IdwmMiEN by @venessamiemis guestpost “I know that i have shadows in me”
heathervescent Need two more responses to Future of Transactions Survey, Year 2. Results at SxSW, March 11. Please take it & RT: https://t.co/55xiyKYG
Have the ogres tossing a peanut finished their pointless ugly spectacle yet?
GarethAveyard ALL ABOARD!
http://t.co/mZriE4Yj
(Via/ @Reddit)
Hello Mr Bear http://t.co/VNKIc3as
@sjclayton sleep less
@mwasnidge yes you should and yes I am. Nervous.
@mwasnidge are you joking? Just watch it. You will love it.
@coxiraghi I remember watching it in the Ranmoor Inn. His best fight.
@coxiraghi got to be at work for 7.30 on Monday…don’t have to be sober though
@coxiraghi a drink is a drink. Whether it is party time or sorrow drowning time.
@coxiraghi I think I have a ticket…can’t say I am looking forward to it.
Pointless to say it but The Wire truly is exceptional. Repeat viewings only make you realise it more.
@jimmynutmeg it is as shit as you expect in that fantastic overblown action film kind of way. switch brain off and enjoy.
“@havocscope Somali pirates made $170 Million from ransom payments in 2011, up from $110 Million in 2010. http://t.co/HuhXootq” cc @dgwbirch
Hello Sheffield you beautiful seven hilled green leafed city of the gods.
@ncockerh not doing too bad so far *screeches to a halt*
“@dgwbirch: McKinsey say financial services have most to gain from “big data” http://t.co/yvPRKEki” cc @NickJewell
LizLum Dear Lord, I seriously just considered calling an upcoming webcast ‘Transaction Banking 3.0’. I need to find a darkened room to lie down in
Brain frying two days in the big city. East coast line please take me home.
hsbc_uk_press HSBC Annual Results 2011 announced Monday 27 Feb at 8.15am GMT http://t.co/jw0BvWIy
@danbarker @philsheard I might be free 8th of March…not 100% yet. Will let you know.
@danbarker Canary Wharf. Internal only….I think. If not then would you like to attend? Might be a bit high level for someone like you!
He has recovered from his use of the word holistic by plugging our upcoming Dataset vs Mindset event on the 9h of March. All is forgiven.
Sound the ‘Holistic’ siren! #bigdata #BannedPresentationWords cc @drnick ;)
About to hear @nickjewell’s #BigData talk. He is starting by telling us he used to work on the research of Viagra.
first_direct Well done to our Marketing & Digital team! eConsultancy announces Innovation Awards 2012 winners http://t.co/Bfi2ke3r
HSBCUKBusiness Visit #HSBC Head of Franchising @cathrynhayes on stand E10 at the National Franchise Exhibition #NFE today and tomorrow http://t.co/OlubSgp0
@r4isstatic You should at the least DM me their name! ;)
@r4isstatic Linked In network as a fraud avoidance tool. Like it.
@r4isstatic Small world…hate to paint it etc
“@topfife: Tuning into http://t.co/M179cbz6 to watch @stml’s talk allegedly about bots and stories. T: -4m” I wish I could…bloody meetings
“@rossbreadmore: What could a big company do with the data from its internal social software? http://t.co/M3wN9tYy” cc @randy_silver
brainpicker How a French banker catalogued humanity and shaped everything from photojournalism to your favorite Instagram filter http://t.co/kFpOYZZ0
@ncockerh is that allowed in many organisations?
The answer ‘not for at least 3-5 years’ boo.
Great question from @dougapd ‘when will we have the equivalent of a video dial tone?’ i.e. when can anyone call anyone from any video source
Listening to @neilkirkman drop knowledge about video as a customer channel. For a Liverpool fan he talks a lot of sense.
“@e_kaspersky: GPS ‘spoofers’ could be used for high-frequency financial trading fraud http://t.co/xfTQdpoP” sound the @stml alarm.
@ncockerh thankfully it was a brief journey.
Taxi driver is listening to capital FM. it might be the most awful radio station I have ever heard. Good morning.
timoreilly Fascinating article about bot-wars on Amazon http://t.co/mqfgrxt9 Pricing bots even lead Amazon to drop its own prices!
tek_fin Via @dgwbirch @FacebookGeek: Facebook obtains money transmitter licenses in 15 states http://t.co/Pfoavcz7 < keeping ppl on their toes.
“@jasonfried: Complexity is easy. Why Nest doesn’t have a clock: http://t.co/WyC5ILY7” differentiation by design. Hello banks.
newsmary Finally blogged #story2012: People are all made of stories http://t.co/LH7sgvnD
@dgwbirch only just realised your question related to the ‘what is a banker worth?’ program…duh. No conclusion at all.
I think this proves my theory that Didier Deschamps is in fact related to Bernard Cribbins http://t.co/Std1s19w
@scotthinch Hmm not sure. Photo coming shortly.
@iamjamesward If you are interested in the inner workings of ATMs you may like this photo set of mine http://t.co/ANjoZQ9I
@dgwbirch so far it looks like it is just me that thinks it.
Does anyone else think Didier Deschamps looks a bit like Bernard Cribbins?
tek_fin RT @msquinn: There are over 50 open positions @Square https://t.co/lwKUezY4 <open position for Localization Project Coordinator #interesting
@RichAtk can I get a Pingit top in XL to wear? Would be good for a laugh at work ;)
@r4isstatic @topfife struggling to listen to ITV commentary even more than usual due to recent conversations. #ClicheRDF
Watching ‘What is a banker really worth?’ on Sky News.
@benterrett swear was successfully censored.
@BrettTechLawyer @daniellesheerin @finextra make great services with good ux and get the hell out of the way.
tek_fin If you know entrepreneurs in Africa working on financial services startups / DM me or come talk to me #lift12 cc @anthemis
uxmag We’re seeking a contributor for @uxmag who’s expert in enterprise IT & the dominance of MS products. Interested? EnterpriseIT@uxmag.com
@haddington @coxiraghi we have a blue plaque up to commemorate that fact @Mattcartoon lived there.
@coxiraghi @haddington remember the wave.
@_millymoo I have visions of a raggedy looking raft made from barrels and string that sinks immediately,spilling a fat man into the water.
@Thayer ta very much.
@_millymoo Yeah I must admit I would like to get a set. I might get some bank ones printed. Analog Fuck Yeah etc
@thayer PS do you mind if I use your excellent photos of stickers on on internal blog. And can I censor the swear in it?
To save myself a long tedious exchange of emails I have censored the F word in @Thayer’s GDS stickers picture on an internal blog. #Culture
@benterrett it is the same one that is on my public blog. I just want to share the goodness inside the organisation I work.
Posted my blog about @govuk, internally. Been asked to remove swear words from it. The irony of work place culture is not lost on me.
“@glynmoody: Announcing the Open Data Handbook version 1.0 - http://t.co/07ifImmo cool #opendata #okf” cc @betonytaylor
@matlock @r4isstatic being bonkers does not seem to have excluded a few other speakers in the past (no names).
@r4isstatic @topfife @scarynige Not just goals that divert the path…bookings/sending off, injuries, streakers etc
@r4isstatic @matlock +1 to the John Motson idea from me Paul. Keeping him to 20 minutes might be tricky though.