The announcement today of ITV selling Friends Reunited for a small fraction of the price it was purchased for should give anyone involved in the development or delivery of web based services pause for thought. The web has a tendency to create a massive short lived buzz around a service and then without a moments [...]
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Posted 06 August 2009
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In this instance the problem for the Iphone [...]
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