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Archive for March, 2009

With the increasing popularity of Twitter and the like, it’s becoming more and more important to keep those characters down with URL shortening services such as is.gd, cli.gs and of course, the ubiquitous TinyURL
A lot of these services offer APIs, taking a long url and returning the short url. But a lot of these are [...]

16 Mar, 2009

Free OUR data, sign the petition

Posted by: Pez In: Web Development

Just a quick post to get a bit of knowledge out there about this here petition on the Number 10 website.
For years, the Royal Mail (a company which we (being the taxpayer) are the majority shareholders of) have been the sole custodians of something called the PAF (postcode address file), which, amongst other things, links [...]

Since my council got a bit of coverage for our usage of Twitter for planning applications, both in the specialist press and SOCITM’s Better Connected report, I’ve received a few calls from other councils who haven’t yet got on the Twitter train asking for a bit of advice.
Therefore, in the spirit of sharing, and, being [...]


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Desperate monetisation attempt…