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Posted by David Tebbutt on 29th September 2008.
A company called Orthus decided to share with me the results of 100,000 hours of spying on users in different organisations. The statistics were a by-product of the company’s service which looks for leakages of sensitive data. Some of its clients use the information to educate users, others use it to nail miscreants.
Most of [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 19th September 2008.
Launching an online property portal in the UK right now is either insane or an inspired move to challenge the incumbents when a plunging market could create opportunities.
Mad or masterly, that’s exactly what PropertyIndex.com, founded by internet dating tycoon, Darren Richards, has done this week by creating a UK version of a year old site [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 7th September 2008.
It’s always good when you stumble across free software that does a ‘good enough’ job. Of course, the minute you stick your hand in your pocket, the game changes. You suddenly expect 24×7 support and service level agreements.
Last week at Office 2.0, I met some folk from Yuuguu. It’s an early-stage UK-based company which has [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 1st September 2008.
Many web startups these days are desperately seeking a business model, hoping their drill bits strike oil before they run out of venture capital money. It turns out Twitter, the micro-blogging service, isn’t one of them.
Thanks to an often overlooked and currently disabled real time search tool called ‘track‘, Twitter has almost accidentally found itself [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 22nd August 2008.
I normally resist the temptation to rake over the ashes of the entrepreneurs and inventors subjected to the flames of BBC2’s Dragons. That said I remember the interview I did with an early victim, Amanda Zuydervelt of stylebible.com, very fondly.
But this week’s episode of Dragon’s Den is worth some follow-up, partly because one of the [...]
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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