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Hassle-free online conferencing

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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The Cool Curve and related matters

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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LinkedIn: an espionage tool?

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, [...]

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Web 2.0 Strategies

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. [...]

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Greynets: is social software making you vulnerable?

A visit with FaceTime introduced me to the term ‘greynet’. Since it’s been knocking around for donkey’s years, I should have known about it. But I didn’t. And so, I figured, nor would you. (Skip this blog if you’re up to speed on the subject and protected from greynet attacks.)
A greynet is a network-enabled application [...]

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SmallBizPod #72 - Michael Gerber podcast - dreaming big with the E-Myth author

SmallBizPod #72 - Michael Gerber podcast - dreaming big with the E-Myth author

A podcast interview with Michael Gerber, author of the E-Myth series of books, on dreaming big, awakening the entrepreneur within, business systems and imagination.

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SmallBizPod #56 - Asian Entrepreneurship

SmallBizPod #56 - Asian Entrepreneurship

Asian entrepreneurship special - the rise of India as an economic power & the business opportunities & collaboration now open to savvy entrepreneurs.

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SmallBizPod #73 - Social entrepreneurs shine at Shine

SmallBizPod #73 - Social entrepreneurs shine at Shine

Live interviews with social entrepreneurs and support groups capture the enthusiasm and passion of the social enterprise scene at the extraordinary Shine conference.

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Does Vista Matter To Small Business?

Does Vista Matter To Small Business?

Does Vista matter to SMEs? Reports from the London launch event and a podcast recording of Bill Gates.

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