Flag & Bell Gets Spotted in the TNT Magazine

The Flag and Bell Summer Party 2009 made it in to the TNT Magazine this week. Congratulations to Andrew McDonough who has been spotted below:



For a closer look, check out page 14-15 of the latest TNT edition.

Trexy & T10 in the Amazon Computing Cloud

Check out what Nigel had to say at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Start-up event today. Watch the podcast here.

Jeeves Strikes Back

Meg and I were there when they froze him in carbonite like poor Han Solo in the Empire Strikes Back.

But just like in the movie I thought it won't be long before he gets unfrozen again. Fortunately the good side of the force must have won in the Ask marketing department - and I'm happy to say - Jeeves is Back! 

A question answering search engine interface still sounds like a good idea to me.

May the force be with you Jeeves.

Flag & Bell Group on LinkedIn

The Flag & Bell has a network group listed on LinkedIn to help our members stay in touch and explore business opportunities.

Interested in joining? Please visit our profile site here: The Flag & Bell IT Networking Group.


Thanks to everyone who came along to the Flag & Bell event in April.

The winning team this month received four cinema tickets. Thanks again to the TNT Online IT Jobs Portal for sponsoring the quiz prize.

We are looking forward to our 3rd birthday party in May.

Turbo10 -> T10 = search engine + ad network

Development on Trexy has been put on hold for the last few months so that our sister search engine Turbo10 could be given a much needed update.

Turbo10 is now rebranded as T10 = search engine + ad network. 

Meg and I took all the lessons we have learnt over the last nine years in the Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising industry and applied them in designing the new T10 system. 

Much of the metasearch technology is now used behind the scenes in our ad network to deliver fast search results.

Here are just some of the developments:

• realtime click fraud screening
  
• improved reporting, tracking etc.
  
• doubled cluster capacity
  
• substantially improved response time
  
• everything is quicker - including typing our name - t10.com

You can find out more at blog.t10.com.

If you are a publisher who displays pay per click advertisments then you check out how you can partner with us.

Flag & Bell Marches in to Spring

We hope everyone enjoyed the March pub crawl in Soho.

Thanks again to Tarpon Aspire and TNT Online for sponsoring the Flag & Bell this month.

A FAB Start to 2009

The first Flag & Bell networking event for 2009 was held last night.

We started out at the Albannach Bar, made our way through Trafalgar Square past the frozen fountains to the Texas Embassy Bar.

It was great to have Jennifer over from OZ to share her FAB flag skills for the night.


Once again, I would like to thank our January sponsors:

* Tarpon UK

* OwnAFilmCompany.com

* TNT Online

Details for the next Flag and Bell coming soon.

Flag & Bell Christmas Party

Thanks everyone for coming to the Flag & Bell Christmas Party. This month's pub crawl took us from Waxy's Little Sister pub around Leicester Square and back again to the Crooked Surgeon pub.

We'd like to thank TNT Online for sponsoring the main quiz prize again this month. Congratulations again to Peter for winning the top prize. We'd also like to thank Eleonora from Bond Marvel for shouting a round of drinks and food at the second pub.

A big thank you also goes to our resident magician Steve, who performed a nail biting, russian roulette style trick involving 5 toy guns!

Nigel and I would like to wish all the Flag & Bell members a very Happy Christmas. We look forward to more FAB events next year.

A FAB Time in Soho

Last night's Flag & Bell IT pub crawl took us through some backstreets of Soho. We started out at the Nanobyte Pub and then moved to The Couch Bar on Dean Street.


Thanks again to TNT Magazine for sponsoring drinks at the first pub and the top quiz prize. Congratulations to Peter's team for picking the lucky slip out of the hat. I hope they have a good time watching the Australian vs Barbarians rugby match at Wembley Stadium. I hope the Aussies win :-)

For those people interested in attending TNT's IT networking night next week on Wednesday the 19th, please find all the registration information here.

Details for the Flag & Bell Christmas Party coming soon...

Emotional Engineering

Emotional engineering sounds like something out of a Jaguar car brochure but I've long thought that software engineering needs to consider emotions too:

• The Emotional Programmer
• Care-o-Meter
• "Search your Feelings Luke"
  

Later in the week I'm attending a lecture at the British Computer Society on 'The Computation of Emotions in Man and Machines'. All these ideas are helping in the design of the next version of Trexy - not to mention the Sins of Search.