Over the past few years, QR codes have been used in various places as replacements for website URLs or to promote products. It’s always felt a little bit naff or unnecessary. Watching TV tonight, BBC Food promoted a specific recipe by using a QR code on screen. A quick scan takes you directly to the [...]
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Tell me what you think of the mobile web
Do you work in mobile? Do you have questions about mobile phones? Do you have an opinion on mobile phones of today? (Who doesn’t!) Tomorrow, I’ll be hosting the 94th Carnival of the Mobilists, a big roundup of news and posts in the week about the mobile world, over on Taptology, the Taptu blog. I [...]
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Lately, I’ve been meeting tons of great owners of small businesses with fantastic ideas, boundless enthusiasm and passion for their work. What struck me...
“Look Ma, no slides!”: The Art of Speaking Without Slides
Last night, I gave a talk at Cambridge Mobile Apps Group (yeah, it’s a mouthful, I know!) about marketing your own app with no budget. When I arrived at...
Amazon EC2 4-day downtime debacle: Keeping your users in the dark is naughty
A few days ago, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (or EC2 to you and I) had a catastrophic failure. The world kept turning, but unfortunately, the...
About Vero
I'm Vero Pepperrell. A Mac Geek, I co-founded Running with Crayons, a small Mac software company, with my husband Andrew.
I'm French-Canadian, living in the UK since 2001, and don't make apologies for my funny accent.
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