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As the world slowly follows Japans lead and heads towards digital wallets and contactless payment points, some UK customers will be able to try out a stick on credit card from Barclay Card.

You stick it on to the back of your mobile phone, then wave it at contactless payment points.

Must admit, not to sure how this works, security wise? Or how you don't accidently pay for things, but guess it's a sign of things to come. Makes your phone more ripe to get pinched as well!

BBC News - Barclaycard unveils mini, stick-on credit card

Anyone tried out or used contactless payment points? Whats the verdict?

Be interesting to see how quickly small businesses start adopting this technology.

Interesting feedback, not noticed any yet, but now shall be keeping an eye out!

That's pretty good from what I've seen, had a nose through it recently, though interesting feedback from DreamRaven

lol, daytime TV would motivate me to work, or drive me to drink

and this is the problem, especially if the value concerned isn't particularly high, it becomes an overhead for you, writing off any potential profit. This is just the sort of client that none of us want

Yep guilty of this

Will confess to not visiting Google+ as often as I should, but was surprised when I landed on it yesterday and it's all changed!

I wonder if this is in response to the Facebook Timeline facelift, or just reacting to peoples feedback?

So with the new menu bar and features like chatting to people in your circles, are you warming to Google+ or do you think it still has some way to go to tempt people off FB?

Interesting article form the Beeb, addressing the curse of the 21st century, information overload:

"When we're inundated with emails, Twitter, Facebook, social media, search engines like Google, it's as if we're expected to know more than we actually do, and we can't retain that level of information, that bombardment.

"When we feel overwhelmed we start to delay making decisions."
BBC News - Pretty pictures: Can images stop data overload?

So do you think you are overwhelmed with information?

In the online marketing game, it does seem like things are changing all the time and there is a need to stay ahead, absorb as much info as you can to stay ahead of your competitors.

As competition heats up between search engines and social networks, I can only see the information overload increasing

Very good, final paragraph was food for thought!

"I have found that many entrepreneurs are of the misguided view that their exit is similar to simply selling shares on the stock exchange. It is not as simple as that. There will be an extensive legal document and you should be prepared to accept only a proportion of the final cash payment. Further payments subject to certain conditions, such as tying you and the senior team to the business for a period of time or meeting revenue or profit targets, will be a part of the negotiation to deliver a final price."

I remember a friend of mine who wound up his haulage business. Even though it was successful, his kids had no interest, and he wanted to retire but couldn't find a buyer. In the end, he sold off the assets, ie trucks and trailers, then sold his contracts and contact book to a competitor.

Seemed a sad end to longstanding company that was built up from scratch.

I think a lot of the problem is the ease with which you can get a website set up and running, and then call yourself a "business".

A blog with 5 visitors a week and covered in adsense isn't a business. Neither is that clickbank sideline that hasn't been declared to the tax man.

A genuine business originates from an idea, with a plan and a strategy and normally accompanies risk, normally financial, either from giving up fulltime work, investing your own cash or both! But the online world has opened up endless opportunities to conduct business, even if they may be frowned on by more conventional or traditional bricks and mortar businesses.

Monetizing web traffic is a means of generating revenue, and now a standard online business model, even if some of the sites doing it appear shady. Reality is, unless they are getting a decent amount of traffic, all the pop ups and advert saturated pages in the world will amount to nothing.

I know what you mean by disposable business practices, but you've had the same in the offline world for a long time (or at least in the UK). Shady Ltd companies folding owing a fortune, only to arise from the ashes under a new name, and then out conning people again

But regarding to wanting to make money, I've got to be honest, isn't that the main reason we are all in business? Or is it just me