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Re: Is your Nokia 5800 completely screwed too?

gedcarroll — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:11:33 -0000

Ewan, mine has been good as cold in terms of performance and battery life. The only thing wrong is that I can't upgrade the software over the air. The key difference between mine and Matt's is that mine was purchased in Hong Kong rather than the European model.

Europe seemd to get hit hard on this model with the defective earphone/mouthpiece and software problems.

Re: All day, and all of the night ... - Travel tips and inspiration - British Airways High Life

gedcarroll — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:57:29 -0000

Hong Kong needs a nomination as well

Re: What was your best phone ever? Here’s mine!

gedcarroll — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:15:02 -0000

For me it was the Ericsson T-39 handset. Great battery life, compact size. Bluetooth, voice recognition

Re: Farewell Paul Carr?

dannywhatmough — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:26:16 -0000

Thanks Ged. Yes, his relationship with Techcrunch does seem like an obvious one/perfect-fit, despite his comments on UK startups...

Re: Farewell Paul Carr?

gedcarroll — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:03:29 -0000

Interesting that Carr contributed much to TechCrunch's excellent timeline on SpinVox the other day

Re: Have you upgraded to the iPhone 3GS?

smstextnews — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:39:09 -0000

Oh dear, that lacquer finish you mention doesn't bode well at all :/

Re: Have you upgraded to the iPhone 3GS?

Ged Carroll — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:22:39 -0000

I have got one, writing a post about the experience. I think its more polished than other phones I've used and it does the basic PIM stuff better but it isn't the head and shoulders above everyone else like you'd believe what you read. Really unimpressed by the lacquer finish of the phone, its not very tactile.

Re: The great game

Ged Carroll — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:39:40 -0000

This is all a bit tedious, I remember a similar debate when PA Consulting used to do PR for Compaq. PR always has had to duke things out with other disciplines and agencies. Often it hasn't done it particularly well and as Robin alludes to there is a marketing singularity coming.

Ultimately the people who will win will be the people most trusted by the client. Will PR die, I doubt it, will PR agencies die - some undoubtedly will (most likely a slow lingering death due to the low barriers to entry), the smartest have already started evolving.

Re: Something new, really soon.

Ged Carroll — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:12:36 -0000

Welcome back ^_^

Re: Something new, really soon.

Ged Carroll — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:46:18 -0000

I'm guessing that Whatleydude Dan Lane and Ben ride again?

Re: Who owns social media?

Ged Carroll — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:50:00 -0000

The smartest guys in the room with the best ideas and the client's trust. If you wanted to be really controversial you should have asked who really owns PR now.

Re: http://wearesocial.net/blog/2009/03/

Ged Carroll — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:13:22 -0000

Loving Robin's cheeky grin in the shot, you guys having an office warming?

Re: Learning to speak human

Ged Carroll — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:38:25 -0000

The truth in the points can't be argued with. The fact that it needs to be said implies that there is a significant amount of people who've missed the point and this needs to be vocalised. That last point is kinda scary

Re: NokiaWorldWatch: Press schedule – Day 1

gedcarroll — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:39:12 -0000

Will there be a replacement for the Nokia E90 any time soon?

Re: The best thing Motorola could do is go fully Android. Discuss.

gedcarroll — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:06:08 -0000

Motorola to be fair to them have done some decent things with Linux particularly the Ming handset for chinese users. Also the startac and ilk have had a fair bit of reliabilty problems with the flip hinge

Re: louisgray.com: I Got a Mac OS X Virus and Infected CenterNetworks. Oops.

Ged Carroll — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:58:31 -0000

Hi Louis, You made a good choice with Intego, I use their stuff now that McAffee has cancelled Virex. Symantec's Norton offerings were doing things at a very low level on my system in a way that made me nervous and suspicious. I can also recommend Intego's Net Barrier: it is amazing the amount of attacks it stops on the likes of my cell carriers 3G network and the corporate networks of clients when I jack in.

Re: YHOO - a contrarian view

Ged — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:58:12 -0000

Hi Fred,

On the one hand I agree with the naysayers as these departures are a big wrench, pretty much all the people mentioned bleed 'purple' - it is quite literally a culture shock. But from a business point of view I agree with you. many of the ideas and the energy that these people brought arent moving the needle fast enough. And with the changes at the top it gives the opportunity to other people to show their mettle and get on.

Butterfield, Horowitz, Fake and Schachter all made valuable contributions, but they are what Bob Cringely would have called first wave people, Yahoo! is a large corporate not a start up and needs the mix of the first wave vision but also solid execution and the people to make that happen.

I would go further and say that more people should be encouraged to leave to reinvigorate the business.

Re: What international calling service do you use?

smstextnews — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:31:03 -0000

It's a working break Ged. Money never sleeps...

Re: What international calling service do you use?

Ged — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:08:57 -0000

Aren't you supposed to be on honeymoon?

Re: Phase One of the Internet is over, and we lost

Ged Carroll — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:47:46 -0000

The Yahoo! lost speech reminds me of Apple circa 1997....

Re: Why doesn’t my E90 come with a 400 quid Windows XP computer?

Ged Carroll — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:04:32 -0000

Why isn't there an OS X version? Software support is poor for technology companies in general.

Re: mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

gedcarroll — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:35:24 -0000

Not terribly interested in Dempsey but who is the attractive looking lady with the jewelery collection on the left of the picture and how does Avon expect men to buy their toiletries from them? Their distribution model probably wont work for men apart from students and the unemployed. I can't see SOHO workers taking time for the Avon lady's call.

Re: Facebook's Not Over

fredwilson — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:49:02 -0000

I feel the same way. I use delicious, flickr, and twitter every day and rarely use facebook

But I believe that facebook is way more mainstream right now than the services we love

Fred

Re: Facebook's Not Over

Ged Carroll — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:32:30 -0000

Facebook may not be over, but it is suffering early adopter fatigue. The applications have become bloatware and user experience is very unintuitive. I find that it feels oppressive to keep my Facebook profile up to date and keep up to speed with the culled list of groups that I still belong to. So have been 'piping' in content from my flickr stream, del.icio.us, Twitter and my blog. I have tweeked the settings to minimise annoying mails and have been generally tardy in checking on to the site. If people want to get hold of me I ask them to mail me or Twitter me.

Products like Twitter, del.icio.us and flickr have a purity of purpose that Facebook lacks.

Re: Tough Times Ahead For The Web?

Ged — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:01:50 -0000

I think that you are one the money, we are also due a cyclical downturn on online advertising rates based on those changes which is going to hit all those 'triple A' businesses (arrogance, AJAX, Adsense) partly driven by economic uncertainty and the fad-driven nature of marketing.