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Online dating entrepreneurs fall for property

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 [...]

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Free screen sharing and chat with Yuuguu

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 [...]

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Twitter, track and the business of the real time web

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 [...]

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iFoods and the Dragons’ Den effect online

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 [...]

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Webslides are go

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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SmallBizPod #55 - interview with Jon Smith of First Artist on AIM and acquisition

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SmallBizPod #58 - Who's Afraid Of The Female Entrepreneur?

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