Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com ]

23/05/08 The Next Chapter.

LONDON, UK - I’m sitting in the corrugated iron tunnel Heathrow have set aside for Irish passengers. I’m waiting on a delayed flight home to Dublin - 2 years after arriving in this tunnel having left home.

Tomorrow is day 1 of the next chapter which I will title “Following My Passion” - today I worked my last day on the Thomson Reuters payroll which I’ll call “Corporate Life”. There’s a funny thought rolling over in my head of - I did it, I proved I can have a corporate life if I want one. I’ll never have that regret of not knowing.

It’s great to hit the ground running - I’ve some important meetings set up in Dublin next week, a beta release of ‘phase 1′ almost finished, and some brilliant people offering me advice when I need it.

I will do a post before I leave for Chicago explaining how I’m going to change my little part of the world with an extraordinarily niche service. The reaction will question if there’s money in it - I don’t know yet.

Build a service for yourself, at least then you’ll have one customer. One customer is better than no customers.

In the next 6 months I will need access to, partnership with or developers to build an advanced SMS gateway, Voice to Text service, Voice Recognition, GPS radio transmitters, RFID tag readers, multi-site hosting, an Adobe Air app, Google Gears access, Twitter API, BlackBerry client, Google Maps API, News scraping.

-Robin.

Tags: chapter, ireland, London, uk

6 Comments

23/05/08 Iarfhlaith Kelly

What a delicious mix of technologies! And a great way to get people’s interest too. It’s definitely worked for me :)

I’ve done plenty of work using the Google Maps API and developing SMS Gateways, so drop me a line if you need any help.

23/05/08 Grannymar

Most of that is like a foreign language to me at the moment but I can almost taste your excitement.

I wish you well in your new journey along life’s road.

23/05/08 markvader

Theres no doubt you can pull it off Robin, looking forward to the big reveal

Mark

23/05/08 aisling

Dyng to find out what it’s all about! And just like Grannymar said, that last sentence is double dutch to me but it sounds good!! :-)

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05/08/08 Brendan Lally

sorry 4 the delay in getting around 2 this.
Best of luck on the new journey. Sounds exciting.
Interested in hearing some more on your idea - might be able 2 help - ping me

Lal