Posted by David Tebbutt on 4th August 2008.
I’ve noticed a couple of new(ish) web services recently. Each allows you to create a slide show of web pages. Does that sound boring? I’m not sure it is.
Marjolein Hoekstra in the Netherlands (she calls herself CleverClogs for good reason) alerted me to one of the services, called Diigo. It started out in 2005 [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 29th July 2008.
I love a good Web 2.0 startup, but what’s always captured my imagination are businesses that use the tools and concepts of the social web to disrupt or enhance traditional sectors.
That’s why I wanted to interview Max Wittrock one of the co-founders of German breakfast cereal startup mymuesli.com, which lets you, the breakfast going public, [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 28th July 2008.
I spend far too much time poring over information provided by government departments, quangos and assorted institutions in the search for understanding and, maybe, even wisdom. But, too often, I hear the sound of axes grinding and I discover that I’m looking in the wrong places for a balanced view.
I won’t bore you with the [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 21st July 2008.
Do people in your company need to collaborate fairly intimately with others who are geographically distant in order to get their work done more quickly? By ‘intimately’ I mean a mix of voice and screen sharing among a smallish group of people.
And would you like to do this at a low fixed cost and with [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 14th July 2008.
Toby Moores is a businessman whose stock in trade is ideas. His company generates them by the thousand, filters out those most likely to succeed and then has a stab at commercialising them. The business, called SleepyDog, has had a few major ‘hits’, most notably in the field of mobile telephony security and later with [...]
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