Posted by Alex Bellinger on 25th September 2008.
It’s rare for me to plug events on the blog here at SmallBizPod, but I’m speaking at one of them and pleased to be part of the blogger relations activity for the other.
What’s more I reckon both events will appeal to the startups and small business owners amongst you.
The first is Small Business 2.0, a [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 22nd September 2008.
Had a demonstration session from Adobe the other day. It was making its Connect Pro strut itself with a whole bunch of us from Freeform Dynamics. Very impressive it was too.
What is it? Another web conferencing service. Or you can buy it for in-house installation. We were using the hosted service. It uses [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 11th August 2008.
Over the weekend, I was invited to attend the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco (Sep 3-5). It would require a degree of diary shuffling and careful planning to justify my attendance. It still gobbles fuel, time and money so I’m still trying to decide what to do for the best.
No doubt the conference presentations [...]
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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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