Green Thing is a community that makes it easy and enjoyable to be a bit greener. Every month you’ll get a different Green Thing to do. All you have to do is do it. October’s Green Thing is “Walk Once”.
They say once, but this green stuff can be addictive. One night last week, I [...]
Doing at least one Green Thing a month
October 8th, 2007 — Community News, General, Non Zopa, p2p, web 2.0 from Simon DJ @ Zopa
Regulators should view money the way consumers want to use it
October 1st, 2007 — General, Legalese, Lenders, Non Zopa, Press, blogs, finance, p2p, web 2.0 from Simon DJ @ Zopa
Simon Gleeson of Clifford Chance has written a very concerning overview of the shortcomings in the Financial Services Authority’s review of how the retail financial services that it regulates are distributed to consumers.
He suggests that the proposed three tiers of advice, coupled with EU-driven changes to the test of what is appropriate, will increase [...]
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Another Gong
September 25th, 2007 — General from Simon DJ @ Zopa
I was fortunate to be able to join Tim Parlett last night to collect another award for Zopa’s you-beaut, patent-pending, multiple-Consumer-Credit-Act-document-electronic-signing-widget.
This time it was Financial Services Technology Project of the Year at the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2007. And it was interesting to note that we were the only retail application nominated [...]
Law 2.0? : New Speech, New Property, New Identity
July 19th, 2007 — Legalese, web 2.0 from Simon DJ @ Zopa
“A two-day “blue skies” intensive legal investigation into the world of web 2.0, where lawyers from the UK, US, Europe and Australia can meet entrepeneurs, social scientists and computer scientists working in the same domain.”
A Society for Computers and Law event, hosted by Herbert Smith in London on 17/18 September.
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Cross-border retail and consumer credit in the EU - please facilitate, don’t regulate
July 18th, 2007 — General, Legalese, p2p, web 2.0 from Simon DJ @ Zopa
European Commission plans to regulate in order to create cross-border retail and consumer credit markets in the EU are, ironically, only likely to constrain innovation and growth. Facilitating the resolution of the real obstacles would be more helpful.
The European Commission recently announced its decision to propose new EU consumer rules in an attempt to create [...]
In the UK, online business is personal
July 16th, 2007 — web 2.0 from Simon DJ @ Zopa
References to “business” (and “SME’s”) are actually references to individual people, so business is highly personalised. Taking the UK as an example, in 2005 there were 4.3 million businesses in the UK, 3.2 million (74%) of which were owner operated, employed no staff and generated an estimated annual turnover of about £190 billion. Only 6000 [...]
Online StoresGreat questions for our time (ie Friday, 5pm)
July 13th, 2007 — Funny from Simon DJ @ Zopa
Why do you have to “put your two cents in”.. but it’s only a “penny for your thoughts”? Where’s that extra penny going to?
Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
What disease did cured ham actually have?
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out [...]
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- SF Bay Oil Spill I am deeply saddened by the recent oil spill in the bay when a container ship struck the Bay Bridge. 58,000 gallons of oil were released. With the winds and the tides the oil is as far as Farallon Islands... what a shame. They have been cleaning birds and skimming oil......
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The (People) Power of Information
July 3rd, 2007 — General from Simon DJ @ Zopa
It is thrilling to see government recognise that citizens are just as eager to control their public sector experiences as they are to control their retail, financial, social and entertainment experiences. I am indebted to Nick Holmes for pointing this out.
Let us hope that this realisation holds during implementation. Please add your encouragement
How this facilitative [...]
Web 2.0 Internet Law in the 21st Century
June 24th, 2007 — General from Simon DJ @ Zopa
On 23 June, I joined a panel of Tom Ilube (Garlik), Daniel Waterhouse (3i) and Clive Davies (Fujitsu) at the Society for Computers & Law Annual Conference on a panel to discuss the “Brave New World of Web 2.0″. I hung around over the next day and half, partly out of fascination for an excellent [...]
Online StoresWhere academic-speak and business-speak collide
June 17th, 2007 — General from Simon DJ @ Zopa
When not running around the park in my pants (see earlier posts), I’ve spent most of the weekend trying to complete a chapter for an academic text on internet regulation.
The book is in stealth, so I can’t say much about the precise topic. But I can shed some light on the bizarre process of [...]
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Pants in the Park, a Sunday morning dilemma (2)
June 17th, 2007 — General from Simon DJ @ Zopa
I needn’t have worried. Tim, our CTO, was wearing pink lace knickers - I’m sure he’ll post a picture or two the moment he gets to a keyboard…
Well done to the folks at Prostate Research Campaign UK for organising a great 5k fun run. Remember, PRCUK is the leading charity in the fight against all [...]
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Pants in the Park, a Sunday morning dilemma
June 17th, 2007 — General from Simon DJ @ Zopa
This is not your average Sunday morning. It’s a tense time for me. I’m about to drive to a suburban park on a glorious summer morning to join not only the horders of sun-worshippers but a group of joggers all of whom, I’ve been assured, will be wearing their underwear on the outside of their [...]
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Pants in the Park
June 5th, 2007 — General from Simon DJ @ Zopa
You may be aware that “Pants in the Park” is a running event on 17 June 2007, sponsored by Prostate Research Campaign UK, “the leading charity in the fight against all prostate diseases, benign and malignant (cancer). Its mission is to raise awareness, provide information, promote understanding and fund both medical research and the training [...]
