“One price for all” policy at Update 2011 (or “why VAT is a bitch”)
Introducing Update's "one price for all" policy. Our solution for dealing with the VAT issue.
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27 Jun 2011
Organizing a conference is hard enough without having to worry about how to handle VAT. All VAT-registered companies (like mine) are supposed to charge VAT on ticket sales and yet no online system I've encountered so far handles this use case. (The otherwise excellent EventBrite, which I use for Update conference, is no exception.) It's like all these online systems want to ignore the fact that the VAT problem exists and event organizers are left to use other systems – and the joys of copy and paste – to handle it.
Beyond the administrative headache, charging VAT creates two price tiers: one for VAT-registered individuals and companies and one for non-VAT-registered ones. Basically, if you're not VAT registered, you end up paying 20% more for things. What this means in practice is that individuals that can afford it the least (mostly freelancers, if you think about the audience for Update) get shafted with an additional 20%. That sucks.
Feathers (for Twitter) and Feathers Visage (for Facebook) have been updated to version 1.3.
This version contains several bug fixes to make Feathers work on iPads. Feathers for Facebook has also been renamed to Feathers Visage to comply with Facebook's trademark rules.
Feathers and Feathers Visage 1.3 update released
A new version of Feathers and Feathers Visage is now available on the App Store.
It's only been a week since the release of Feathers and I just submitted the first update to Apple.
The new update has two new styles and new magic quotes substitutions for you to play with. It also brings with it the option to turn of auto-correction (including auto-capitalization and those annoying periods that get autoinserted when you enter two spaces following a character.) Auto-correction is on by default but you may want to turn it off if you do a lot of Unicode art.
Feathers Update 1.1 coming soon!
I just submitted the first update of Feathers to Apple for approval.
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A last minute change:
I'm going to be presenting my brand new session, Grab the Low-Hanging Fruit (or 5 Rules for Hedonistic Creatives) at Flash on the Beach next week.
The session got rave reviews at previews in Amsterdam and Belgium this week and I hope you guys will enjoy it too at FOTB in Brighton.