Author Archives: David Banes

I believe that IF there was a God then this God would see us all as equals under one church. I’ve formed the opinion that the core values mainstream religions teach strive to create compassionate, honest and caring attitudes towards … Continue reading →

We often notice that despite our advice clients insist on leaving a ‘backup’ MX record in their DNS, this means that they a) don’t understand how spammers operate b) don’t understand that we have primary, secondary and tertiary routes for … Continue reading →

‘No speed limit, no crash barriers and no street lights’, that would have been fun at night in a fast car Some great picture here.

Your credit balance has expired Unfortunately, your Skype Credit balance has expired due to 180 days inactivity on your account. We sent you three reminder emails, but as we explained, this now means the balance you had in your account … Continue reading →

Because they can. Many times in the last 20 years I’ve seen independent  software vendors and IT solution providers flounder following an announcement by Microsoft about a new product. It seems that if they (Microsoft) see  a lucrative new area … Continue reading →

I’m obviously biased, I’m an XMPP fan, but I can’t help but think that Mozilla’s Raindrop project, in the context of the real time web, is missing the point. It’s going to be a similar argument that swirled around Twitter in … Continue reading →

CRM – We binned SugarCRM last month because it became too time consuming to keep it up to date (it’s not very intuitive and ‘clunky to use, if you want a good CRM go here ) and the contracts support … Continue reading →

So, looks like I’m tweeting more than blogging now…

it’s good to see that the UK cheese industry is alive and kicking, article and cheese map (yum!)on the BBC’s web site.

I’ve been writing and talking about the possible changes at Twitter which will pull RT’s out of tweets and into the Twitter API, read the post below this one. The guys at Twitter are being really great and asking me … Continue reading →

I’m assuming Apple have done all the research around the risk, both security and copyright for this new feature in iTunes; — • Home Sharing helps you manage your family’s iTunes collection between computers in your home. iTunes can automatically transfer … Continue reading →

I recall some research MessageLabs did around 2003 that said email sizes averaged less than 20k, in fact maybe the number was 16k. Anyway about  a year ago I took a look back over 2008′s data and we were seeing … Continue reading →

Michael Osterman from Osterman Research was kind enough to post a short piece about Cleartext on Messaging Wire following our briefing with him last week.

Microsoft appeals for stay of Word injunction | Tech News on ZDNet. Whilst I don’t like the way MS operates and feel they’d follow this through if the boot was on the other foot, I also dislike software patents, they’re … Continue reading →

I can’t help but think that using XMPP for bookmark synch is overkill:) http://bit.ly/4C4rxn

Louise spotted this today, we’ve certainly been more favourable to Twitter enabled businesses. —- ‘Avaya nabbed the deal through an unconventional new sales model — Twitter. According to eWay chief executive Matt Bullock, he was evaluating voice solutions and narrowed … Continue reading →

There will be a LOT of startups and their funding partners wondering about the 3rd party Twitter app or web site model at the moment (eg Tweetdeck and Seesmic), following Twitters failure to handle a DDoS attack. Who really thinks … Continue reading →

Looks to me like News Corporation’s light is flickering on the way out with desperate attempts from the ‘bricks and paper’ group to claw back some revenue. What chance does Rupert Murdoch have when sites like the BBC give us … Continue reading →

Brought to my attention by Pat Bitton Why CIOs Need The Transformative Power Of Twitter And here’s a way to get your organisation enabled for Twitter and other micro-blogging services your employees may be using, whilst complying with your requirement … Continue reading →

Having split our business into email services and web development services a couple of years back via cleartext.com and cleartextsystems.com today we’ve reversed this and consolidated at cleartext.com The main reason for this is that we’ve backed away from web … Continue reading →