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Category: InnovationBy neville on May 7, 2008 in Business, Innovation, Social Media, Technology, Web | 4 Comments
Do away with boring text search and see what you’re looking for.
That’s the thrust of visual search from SearchMe, a startup search engine currently in public beta that offers you something a bit different, and visually more attractive, in your online searching.
The company has been around for some years. See this post on TechCrunch [...]
By neville on Apr 26, 2008 in Business, Innovation, Investor Relations, Marketing, Technology, Web | 2 Comments
I’ve been following the progress of a group of 20 British tech startups who have been in Silicon Valley this past week as part of Web Mission 2008.
The trip - sponsored by HSBC Bank, UK Trade and Investment, TechCrunch, BT and Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group - was designed to showcase innovative UK web [...]
By neville on Apr 23, 2008 in Blogging, Innovation, Social Media, Weblog Tools, Weblogs | 1 Comment
Video startup seesmic has released a terrific conversational tool - a plugin for WordPress that enables you to create and post a video comment.
Not only that, it also enables a blogger to create a post that includes a video comment, just as I have done here:
Be seen and heard
So if you want more [...]
By neville on Mar 1, 2008 in Business, Communication, Experimenting, Innovation, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networks, Software, Technology, Web | 0 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, I met Luke Razzell at the social media cafe in London.
Luke is CEO of i-together, the UK company behind Blog Friends, one of the more useful applications for Facebook.
What Luke introduced me to, though, is Buzzspotr, a new web service he’s developing that’s currently in private pre-alpha testing.
Buzzspotr is [...]
By neville on Feb 12, 2008 in Communication, Innovation, Personal Development, Twitter, Web | 1 Comment
Or more precisely, with Qwitter, a neat idea from TobaccoFreeFlorida, an advocacy group in that US state dedicated to raising awareness of health and other issues related to smoking.
Note I didn’t say this group is anti smoking. It is, of course, but its overall message is quite subtle:
This movement seeks to provoke reactions from [...]
By neville on Jan 21, 2008 in Business, Communication, Experimenting, Innovation, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networks, Software, Technology, Trends, Web, Workplace | 6 Comments
Being able to record video of something and then share it with lots of people - YouTube, anyone? - isn’t a new idea by any means.
It seems there are any number of video sharing services that you can sign up for and use - see this long list by Robin Good, and this one from [...]
By neville on Dec 11, 2007 in Europe, Events, Innovation, Professional Development, Social Networks, Technology, Web | 1 Comment
If you’re in tech, Silicon Valley may be the place you pay attention to for 363 or so days of the year, but for the other two, Paris is the place to be right now.
Today Le Web 3 ‘07 Fourth Edition kicks off, the brainchild event from Loic Le Meur, where nearly 1,800 people [...]
By neville on Nov 27, 2007 in Innovation, Software, Weblog Tools, Weblogs | 8 Comments
One of the frustrating things about some websites, including many blogs, concerns printing.
Let’s say you’re on a site reading an article or post and you want to print out a hard copy. It’s common to get a result that runs into pages, more than you actually need, and not formatted for the purpose. Worse, especially [...]
By neville on Nov 10, 2007 in Gadgets, Hardware, Innovation, NevilleHobson.com, Software, Technology, Weblog Tools, Weblogs | 3 Comments
The iPhone came to Europe last night. If you’re in Germany or the UK, you can now get hold of one over here.
If you do have an iPhone, no doubt you’ll be spending a lot of time this weekend playing with it and discovering it’s features.
You might be going online with it, and your [...]
By neville on Oct 30, 2007 in Business, Communication, Events, Gadgets, Hardware, Innovation, Investor Relations, Marketing, Mobile, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Technology, Web | 13 Comments
Skype, the internet phone service, is all about disruption.
I remember thinking, when I first started using Skype back in 2004, that here’s a small, nimble company that will drive a massive wedge into traditional telephone service business models.
From a user perspective, the model is dead simple and highly compelling - free phone calls via [...]
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