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I went up to London to attend both BarCampLondon2 and FowaLondon07. For me there was an obvious winner in terms of what I learn’t from the events. I can relate the two events by comparing them to software i.e.
FowaLondon2 = Closed source
BarCampLondon2 = Open source
Or even
FowaLondon2 = Web [...]
We’ve recently attended 2 Geekfests. Barcamp London 07 and FOWA London 07, both were interesting, educational and networky. Though, if asked, the intimacy and interaction of Barcamp won out for me.
Anyway: What got to me was the prevalence of powerbooks. They were everywhere! At FOWA a show of hands in the auditorium was estimated at [...]
Brighton “London by Sea”, has, in my opinion the potential to be the next Silicon Valley of the UK. For readers abroad Brighton is a very hep coastal town based in the South East of England.
Firstly lets identify what made Silicon Valley back in the 1970s (refer to O’Reilly’s Blog):
Universities and research institutes which [...]
A very nice example of a social networking website predominantly used by business people. But the question is what are the uses of it?
I can’t seem to see how it could be used as a recruitment tool at first but then on looking at it closely I realised its an excellent tool for someone verifying [...]
Kiss stands for Keep it Simple Stupid/Silly/Smartass
I meet many innovators, entrepreneurs and sales people and I really like their product but quiet so often companies with big budgets go over the top with their Web 2.0 products. Our product can do everything: Email iteself, play on this, bring this, include that, mashup this, our market [...]
Kwiqq will be working with First Choice Holidays this summer to produce an innovative social website. First Choice have a family brand of package holidays called Holiday Villages. A Holiday Village is a resort in itself; with restaurants, live entertainment and lagoon-style pools, combined with stylish accommodation and health and sports facilities. [...]
I love the way we are all hunting for our own bit of the web to develop/commercialise/organise.
The ever multiplying hoard of little buttons that let you Digg/Del.icio.us/Furl/Spurl/etc/etc have been targeted by addthis.com, an offshoot of addme.com.
Instead of a line of individual buttons to choose from, it’s just one button. Well one for bookmarking and [...]
I went up to London the other day to attend Demand 2.0 part of the mobileYouth campaign. Nice presentation by Savka Andic. One of the things she pointed out was the complexity of the youth market. Consider this: teenagers would buy ringtones worth £3 but refuse to spend money on buying music singles. This is [...]
A new kid on the block? Maybe not
Flixster.com allows its users to rate and discuss movies. Statistics shows that it has done really well for itself:
Graph courtesy Techcrunch.
Almost an exponential growth with some peaks during June. Indeed a very impressive
They raised around $2 million from Sequoia Capital as reported by techcrunch. Suquoia are the VCs [...]