Category Archives: MixAction

2009 Epic Fail. Glad Its Over. Towards 2010

By scott kane | Published: February 3, 2010

If 2008 was a good year, and in many ways it was for me, 2009 was an Epic Fail. I mean EPIC. It began with good intentions. An application to finish that was six months overdue and the core of my start-up. By years end I’d made less progress than in the last six months [...]

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BoomerApp Promotion On A Brand New Product. 100% Rebate. Klik n' Mix

By scott kane | Published: November 23, 2009

A few weeks ago however a new service was launched from the people who brought the world Bits du Jour. That service is BoomerApp. While Bits du Jour hands our full licences daily BoomerApp is instead a rebate system where-by the customer purchases in the normal way and recieves a rebate form which they return to FastSpring Ecommerce or a local representive who...

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Why I have bothered with the Windows 7 logo program

By scott kane | Published: November 8, 2009

Across on his blog Andy Bryce has written some very good reasons for why he won't be bothering with the round of Windows 7 logos marketing Microsoft has launched. First I should point out that there is a difference between the "Compatible with Windows 7 logo" and associated marketing materials and the "Certified For" program run by Microsoft. The latter, I'm in full agreement with Andy. I saw no benefit in the Vista version and see no beneift in the Windows 7 version. Rather we're talking about the logo to the left of this article.

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Another Round Of Updates And An Apology For Post Weirdness

By scott kane | Published: July 17, 2009

OK, the rumours are all true. I have gone totally, fully, round the twist mad! There. That feels better. Weird Repeating Article Thingies First up, before I go into details, I’d like to apologize to readers. If articles have been appearing in your feeds twice it’s not because I’m trying to spam articles, or that I’ve installed some [...]

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