Just read the latest Dial-a-cab ‘Call Sign‘ by their Editor Alan Fisher and found the reason why a few London cabbies I met recently were so worried about private hire. By now I understood quite well that there are plenty of little quarrels going on between these two trades. But this fact – sheer numbers – really makes the point:
Number of licensed black cabs versus private hire vehicles
Sure enough, taxicabs look like a small minority now, not even counting all the other contenders like rickshaws and illegal touts. What can …

Finding my ‘CRM’ was something like an odyssey. After a few exchanges in a few forums and with Norada support it dawned on me, that is rather the rule than the exception.
This is my short story of how this came about. May there be interesting tidbits for others facing comparable problems.
It all started off with CabChap developing faster than anticipated. telfish being an B2B business, didn’t generate many leads, we were able to handle them with the standard Mac address book.
CabChap on the other hand, is pure B2C play. …

09-12-18 Update: Many people pointed out, that there is a remote chance that the coords really show the tester’s home location. To protect her/him I have jittered the address / the location slightly.
Our first iPhone App ‘CabChap’ for the global taxi dispatch cabchap.com has been released today to the Apple app store. The app makes it possible to find nearby cab drivers with a single click. It differs from other offers out there by contacting the drivers directly (in the near term), instead on having an intermediary – aka dispatch …

Just release my first iPhone App – to the Apple App store review process. To be exact, this is my second time in a little under 48h.
First try happened on tuesday noon, but after extensive testing I came across a mean bug I didn’t squash before. So on thursday noon I rejected my own binary and re-uploaded the new, corrected version (1.0.5).
Just thirty minutes ago I got a mail indicating a change in app status:
The status for the following application has changed to In Review.
This seems very fast to me, …

Interessant wie ein Kommunikations-Gigant und eine konzernige Werbeagentur die Identität der aktiven Onliner so falsch einschätzen kann. Upload zur Selbstverwirklichung? Danke, nein!
Don Alfonso fasst das in der FAZ passend zusammen:
Mit erstaunlicher Indolenz plaudert man bei Vodafone auch nach dem Debakel einfach weiter, schwadronierte vom Dialog mit der „Generation Upload“, während draußen im Netz überdeutlich wurde, dass man von solchen Leuten absolut nicht als Partner gesehen werden möchte. Sogar Begünstigte der Werbekampagne meldeten sich deutlich ablehnend zu Wort. Man kann dem Debakel einen gewissen Unterhaltungswert nicht absprechen; ähnlich einer an Kokain …