mcdowall

Sure, feel free to drop me a mail and I'll collate and send back.

Love the workups, I've sent them round our department (TfL).

Just a heads up, the schematic Tube map is updated every 3 or 4 months. A member of my team tried mapping the points manually with appropriate curves in Canvas, ultimately it was a bit of a nightmare without the original Illustrator SVG file. It might be a painful task for you.

This is great, I'll forward over to the guys working on the replacement to our current Flash version.

The data you are using will be superceded soon with a new API with more rich information at a lot lower latency (don't worry we won't decommission the old one for a long while).

We'll be mailing all our subscribers in the very near future for early access.

We won't, this data is readily available on our data page. In fact our new API will have much more information available, with a lot lower latency.

It seemed to work fine in Safari for me. Love the tool, great work

We're just in the process of nailing down the venue, but aiming for the end of May / start of June (essentially once we've managed to do some more testing and integrate some new data sources).

Without giving too much away (I'll get shot by the press team!), its a single API covering all modes of travel in London and surrounding areas, mostly for the first time, think fares, enhanced accessibility options, geodata etc.

Drop me a mail and I'll get you on the invite list if your interested.

My team (TfL Online) has a hackathon coming up soon based on our new API, it would be good to hear how we can get that out there for the attendees to be aware of?. (I'm sure you are pretty jam packed on the schedule this time round though)

They may not 'think' about it as you refer, but will likely be using RSS in some form, or reading a link via reddit or some other interesting achievement.

Have some bloody respect.

I was born in Cardiff but strangely never been to Swansea, currently consigned to the grey skies of London though!

Equally, if you think of extra time in a cup match then TV schedules for the rest of the evening are definitely effected. It happens a lot.

Congratulations, I've read your other posts and always impressed by your concise way of describing the processes you are undertaking.

One thing troubles me though, why did you goto Swansea on your UK trip of all places!?

I spent over a year at two leading newspapers recently, launching both of their new sites.

I would strongly disagree they don't know what their doing, in terms of commercial partnerships, cross promotional ideas and monetization of content you'll actually find that most media agencies follow their lead. Of course mistakes will be made along the way (as others have rightfully pointed out), but its a massive challenge.

Lets Summarize newspapers, they produce original content at cost (writers, editors, designers, photos (getty etc) offices and everything else, they try to achieve top rankings in SERPS (SEO, Analysts) and then go out and try to get money from advertisers (sales execs, ad networks, managers etc) whilst competing with hundreds of other companies offering views at lower rates to sell the number of eyes that look at that content at a competitive price.

Most newspapers are barely breaking even, so give them a bit of slack for at least trying new methods and ideas.

"This needs a little more context, doesn't it? Did usage drop because the app is unpopular? Did it drop because the Guardian is unpopular? Or is Facebook losing share overall?"

None, FB launched the opengraph plugin with a preferred list of partners, after the initial bedding in period other media companies were allowed to join, thus saturating the market and taking % share (UV).

Your right, I was on public transport. Actually I went to hire a jeep but had forgot my drivers licence back in the UK, given your comments I'm probably lucky I didn't!

I usually work for 6-9 months contracting and then set about an area of the world to travel, this year I've done Australia and Central America. Come April next year my plan is to start off in NYC, travel the states for 6 weeks and then spend 6 or so weeks trying to promote my startup in SF.

As an added extra I would suggest checking out flightfox.com (no association), I recently plugged in an 8 stop trip and managed to get really good prices from their agents. The advice they gave though about where and when to book for the best discounts by airline was probably more useful.

A great tip other posters have noted, take the advice and book a single outbound flight then use other carriers when you have chosen your next destination.

I spent a month across the Yucatan in Mexico, Belize and around Costa Rica 5 weeks ago, I didn't experience anything like this at all, I sense an element of desperation, anger and blatant bullshit amongst this post.

Belize was a really warm welcoming country, I've travelled every continent and its up there in my top 5, so to read this is so contrary to my image of a wonderful country.

I travel two hours each way to work to London, and likewise, I sit in the quiet carriage.

I've been that person to stand up, walk over and have a quiet word, but all to often I'm met with hostility and shock that we should even dare to police our own quiet space.

The regular commuters in the whole are respectful and as the writer alludes to, treat the carriage as their personal quiet time, but as Brits, confrontation such as this is a cultural misnomer, we just don't tend to do it and I can't think that I will ever feel happy about having to do so, much more I just wish people would be more respectful.

I can't see this being a problem in most places. Most places will be a small deposit plus a month up front in places in Asia, Central America etc, however more developed places such as London, Syndey etc will be less tolerant / desperate for bookings.

The two most useful tools I've found when doing this is Tripadvisor and Airbnb, you can usually haggle a room from either of these longer term.

I do very much the same as you alluded to here, the only difference being that I am in tech project management (cue a gasp!) so remote pm roles really don't appear that often so I tend to do 3-6months contracting then head off somewhere cool for month or so.

This year I've managed to hit Australia's East Coast for a month, do central America for a month and take the best part of a month off for the Olympics. I call it itchy feet syndrome!

I was quite surprised by the low variance for cities like NY and SF, the variance here in the UK for London is significantly greater.

I've just had all my boxes of photos digitised and synced to Dropbox and stored the originals at my mums. It was quite satisfying to know I don't need to worry about losing them.

About $50k a year.

I'm a few months away but will ping you an email now, would be great to hear how I could get my service integrated.

For anyone that is interested, the feedback received (thanks!) has been handed over and the output poll for final designs is here -

https://99designs.co.uk/logo-design/vote-o42osm

Any additional votes / feedback would be great

I disagree, quite frankly I don't care for your explanation even if you were to offer it.

Why would it not be hacker news?, Im working on a new website, coding it, designing it and the bit I have outsourced I wanted feedback on.

I think flagging it is a bit childish to be frank.

Thanks, I got a whole bunch of feedback, much of the same as you alluded to actually and a lot of amends to make!

I think I get what you mean, someone else pointed to a simpler design and smaller logo as well, thanks!

Thanks for the feedback, if no one likes them its back to the drawing board (literally!). Thankfully I have two more days of design amends to be made so taking on everyones advice is crucial.