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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Readwriteweb had an interesting article about Future of Social networks.
Alex May has some view on it too:
“The problem with the ubiquitous approach is that, like Facebook’s privacy policy, I suspect it’ll be nigh on impossible to opt out, thus limiting functionality for users who do not want to share their information.
Of course, it seems [...]
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 [...]
A talk with Micheal Arrington at his home office. He talks about TC’s investment round and their evaluation.
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 [...]