This week’s selection of what I bookmarked on Delicious.
- Illustrating just how broken the mobile operator’s customer support is, Rummble’s CEO Andrew Scott details his 9 month battle with O2 after they refused to honour an agreed deal and MoanLog’s Gaurav Patel details the extraordinary length that 3 went to so they didn’t have to give out a PAC code to a customer.
- Twitter was brought down by a distributed denial of service attack; but some people survived thanks to a PostIt note.
- Chiswick Business Park knows how to speak to humans and to dogs.
- The world didn’t end at 12:34:56 on 07/08/09; probably because it had already happened in July to the US.
- The Londoner and the geo geek in me took a trip down memory lane with a collection of London Underground Tube maps.
- And finally, thanks to MobilePress, vicchi.org went mobile.
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Self professed "geek with a life", geo-blogger, geo-talker and geo-tweeter, Gary works in London and Berlin as Director of the Places Registry for Nokia; he's a co-founder of WhereCamp EU, the chair of w3gconf and sits on the W3C POI Working Group and the UK Location User Group. A contributor to the Mapstraction mapping API, Gary speaks and presents at a wide range of conferences and events including Where 2.0, State of the Map, AGI GeoCommunity, Geo-Loco, Social-Loco, GeoMob, the BCS GeoSpatial SG and LocBiz. Writing as regularly as possible on location, place, maps and other facets of geography, Gary blogs at www.vicchi.org and tweets as @vicchi.
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