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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 [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 23rd June 2008.
I have no idea why Aladdin Knowledge Systems decided to attack LinkedIn, the business networking giant. A company which was valued last week at just over a billion dollars. Perhaps Aladdin thought it would ride the giant’s coat tails.
Unfortunately, the method it chose was to accuse LinkedIn of making industrial espionage easier. “Ah,” thought I, [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 16th June 2008.
Last week’s Web 2.0 Strategies conference in London brought together people who were anxious to find out whether and how to implement ‘Web 2.0′ in their organisations. They came with a generally favourable disposition towards the subject but most of those I spoke to were finding it difficult to engender enthusiasm among their senior management. [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 27th May 2008.
Twitter has been mentioned a few times in SmallBizPod a few times during the past year. It’s a web service that allows you to post short messages about what you’re doing at any moment. These can be picked up on computers and mobile phones. In itself, Tweeting sounds totally insane. As I’ve said before, “Who [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 18th May 2008.
Over the past few months, I’ve seen quite a number of videoconferencing systems, ranging from the desktop to huge room-sized affairs. The room-sized are probably beyond the remit of this blog. And I’ve written about some of the desktop ones before. I’m hoping to write about a new one very soon which, frankly, blows the [...]
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