At midnight yesterday the Digital Switchover began in Wales with the switch off of BBC 2 in the Swansea area. Over the next few months, the rest of Wales will be converted, finishing in March 2010.
Prior to the start of the switchover in Wales, our parent organisation Consumer Focus Wales conducted a mystery shopper survey [...]
On Wednesday (5th August 2009) I attended TJam – a Tesco event to unveil the latest version of their experimental API. The event was hosted at Microsoft’s London offices, and was attended by developers from all over the UK.
The aim of the event was to show off the latest beta of their API and let [...]
Just a quick heads up. Later today, the Product Recalls site will move to its own dedicated domain, recalledproducts.org.
If you are a registered user, you don’t need to do anything at your end, but email alerts and RSS feeds will reflect the name change. The old domain should redirect all requests automatically.
Following user feedback over the last few weeks, we’ve been working on a number of changes to the Product Recalls website. These changes were pushed out to the server yesterday, so let us know what you think.
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This was a big request from the early users of the website and something we wanted to bring [...]
We’ve been talking for a while about the first project that we’ve been building, and today we’re pleased to be able to switch on the Product Recalls website.
The issue of product recalls is a tricky one. Some companies publish notices in the national newspapers or display a poster in their shop window. Some of these [...]
Big thanks to everyone who took the time to submit their ideas to this site. We spent time last week going through all the the ideas and singled several out for development. The selection criteria was pretty simple, taking account of factors such as:
Is the idea within our consumer remit?
Does the idea offer real value [...]
Unfortunately, we’ve been forced to delay the launch of our first site due to last-minute issues regarding the re-use of the data set we were hoping to use. Not to be deterred, and as we are in the business of opening up data sets, we’re currently investigating solutions to this problem and hope to launch [...]
As we mentioned in our last post, we’ve been busy working away on our first CF Labs project. We’re nearly there, and are gearing up for its launch.
Late last week, we released an early beta version of the site to a number of people within Consumer Focus, and those signed up to our mailing list. [...]
It’s been a busy April for CF Labs. Our first month proper (i.e. with a full-strength team) has been all about getting our working environment set up, meeting people to get the message out and ideas in, and also embarking on our first development project. For this we’re producing a relatively straightforward proof-of-concept website which [...]
We’re very happy to welcome Dafydd Vaughan to our little development team. Among other things Dafydd is responsible for cllrtweeps.com which tracks down and aggregates local councillors using twitter to talk to their constituents. Welcome Dafydd!