Dr Richard M Marshall

I've always liked to build things. Since I outgrew Lego I've been building software, development teams and most recently companies.

I'm Founder and CTO of Rapid Mobile Media Ltd in Edinburgh, Scotland. We founded the company in February 2004. We mobilise applications, but are now focussing on Ad360 Mobile Advertising Platform.

I like to think of us as creating mobile applications that people actually use, but we go much deeper than that.

This blog, however, is much more about my observations on the last frontier, the world of mobile technology. And anything else that crosses my path.


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Chrome Test

This blog entry is being typed via Wordpress running in Chrome. It’s stunningly faster than Firefox; clearly the optimised VM running Javascript is doing the business. Even more impressive is the near-instant install. No 500Mb bloatware here.

On the other hand, this blog editing only sort of works, but doesn’t put in the right formatting. Paragraph tags get stripped out!

So far I’ve tried the BBC website and it snaps onto the screen faster than I’ve ever seen. iPlayer took a while to load, but I think it was downloading the plugin first. Once loaded, it ran sweetly too.

Flickr, however, doesn’t do any  of the clever Ajax stuff, and I reverted to Firefox to categorise my latest upload.

I’m sure there will be terabytes of commentary flowing out today and tomorrow!

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