Monthly Archives: March 2008

Facebook V/S Far East Social networks

ReadWriteWeb has a fantastic blog about the social networks in the far east. I wrote a similar blog about social networking globally.

Given Facebook is popular in US/UK (and Africa) it still has a lot of catching up to do when you compare it will QQ.com’s 300m users. Another interesting figure is Facebook’s position amongst [...]

Posted in Facebook, Myspace, Social Networks, Web World | 4 Comments

Social Networking at its Best: Dopplr

Dopplr is a social network aimed at business travelers. By just this defination the creativity and effort put behind the project is not very clear.

Although once you get the chance to signup to it, you will understand the pain and effort which has gone into preparing this network. For starters the usability is spot on. [...]

Posted in Business 2.0, Social Networks, Travel 2.0, Web World | 6 Comments

Pepsico Forming Social Network around Soccer (Football)

PepsiCo is launching a social network around European football. The site is available on pepsiyouniverse.com

Obviously site has excellent potential with football fanatics. Although I’m not sure how they are looking to market it. You can already build your profile on the site. Apart from profiles you can take part in a quiz:

Brands are obviously entering [...]

Posted in Business 2.0, Marketing 2.0, Social Networks, Web World | 7 Comments

Project Brighton

I stumbled upon Project Brighton last month. An initiative by Rosie Sherry to provide Brighton technology companies with a platform. It allows Geeks to meet with other non-technical/technical people who might need help with their website, software, hardware…..

Rosie is solidly blogging on the site and actively adding conferences, events, jobs etc. I think the idea [...]

Posted in Brighton Community, Business 2.0, Events 2.0, Web World | 2 Comments

WebMission08 results out

I blogged about it earlier and now the moment of truth RESULT TIME ! I’m glad Kwiqq is one of the companies going to San Francisco with the delegation.
Overall the judge’s feedback was very positive:
Doug Richard (Dragon’s Den): “some of these companies are as good as anything coming out of the Valley”.

Mike Butcher [...]

Posted in Business 2.0, Europe 2.0, Kwiqq Announcements, Travel 2.0, Web World | 7 Comments

Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond

Richard MacManus, editor of ReadWriteWeb created this excellent presentation on the future of web technology covering:
Web 2.0, 3.0 (Intelligent Web), Semantic Web/Apps, Open Data, Mobile web/Apps, Recommendation Engine

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Ostatic (gigaOm) Resource For Open Source Community

GigaOm one of the respected Web/technology blogs has just released an online community for open source software. The platform is for open source built on open source (Drupal). There are several open source software (150,000+) already listed in the directory.

The site also include s a Google Q&A style section.
Some nice facts which came [...]

Posted in Social Networks, Techy Stuff, Web World | 2 Comments

Brilliant Video: Inside Techcrunch

A talk with Micheal Arrington at his home office. He talks about TC’s investment round and their evaluation.

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Blogging For Business

White Paper - How to Blog for Business (using Wordpress)
I initially wrote a draft on how to Blog, a common sense way to get you into the blogosphere, using Wordpress. Now with the help of some experts in the field: Leif Kendall (at Kendall copywriting) and wonderful guys at Dharmafly: Madhava and Premsagar we have [...]

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