Author: ajb

Part 5: Postmortem of a Kickstarter campaign; Camsformer
By: Date: May 20, 2016 Categories: Other

Part Five – The best stuff always happens after I leave the party 🙁 Part Four ended with me being given a refund and effectively ending my relationship with the project. Despite no longer having a chance of getting the hardware, I was still interested to see what happened to the project. Would it ever…

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Part 4: Postmortem of a Kickstarter campaign; Camsformer
By: Date: May 19, 2016 Categories: Other

Part Four…The purchase of my silence (spoiler alert) We left the story at part three on September 6th 2015, at which point I’d lost my shit for the first time, pointed out a whole lot of oddities and concerns and pretty much decided I didn’t want to be a part of the project any longer….

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Part 3: Postmortem of a Kickstarter campaign; Camsformer
By: Date: March 13, 2016 Categories: Other

This is part three! In Part 1, we looked at the campaign, its press coverage, what the project promised, and why it interested me..  In part 2 we moved onto the first seeds of doubt… Then a silence descended on the project. … Twenty two days later … And fifteen pissed off messages from people…

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Part 2: Postmortem of a Kickstarter campaign; Camsformer
By: Date: March 12, 2016 Categories: Other

This is part two! In Part 1, we looked at the campaign, its press coverage, what the project promised, and why it interested me.. Now we move onto the first seeds of doubt… HOT PRODUCT OR HOT AIR? The first comment on the Comments section is dated 3rd December 2014. For quite some time, the…

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Part 1: Postmortem of a Kickstarter campaign; CamsFormer
By: Date: March 8, 2016 Categories: Other

Kickstarter has had some wonderful successes and some terrible failures. Perhaps the most famous example of the latter is that of “Zano“, the drone that raised millions and only delivered a handful of units, which didn’t work well. On the 7th December 2014, I backed a project called “CamsFormer“. The concept, in pieces, was not…

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How to f-ck off your customers, TalkTalk
By: Date: August 19, 2015 Categories: Other

A few foundations for the benefit of anybody who isn’t intimately acquainted with this aspect of the telecoms industry… TalkTalk has a “retail” division, and also a “wholesale division” called “TalkTalk Business”. I will refer to them as TTR and TTB. TTR sells to home users; broadband, phone services etc. TTB sells to other ISPs,…

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