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Encyclopaedia Britannica online goes sort of free

by Dennis Howlett on 19.04.2008 15:16   0 comments , 311 views
I’ve spent the last week noodling around with Encyclopaedia Britannica Online and Britannica Webshare. I like it. Unlike Wikipedia which is a free resource, Britannica costs $70 a year to those who are not ‘web publishers.’ Webshare provides a way for users to add topic widgets to their websites. TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington is less than impressed: But, [...]
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BusinessWeek's Most Innovative Companies

by Vinnie Mirchandani on 19.04.2008 11:57   0 comments , 330 views
Its annual list and related articles included how to shield innovation projects and budgets in a recession are in this issue here
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Preview: Spanning Sync v2.0 Adds Contact Sync

by Charlie Wood on 21.04.2008 11:46   0 comments , 397 views
(Cross-posted from the Spanning Sync Blog.) People know Spanning Sync for its ability to sync Apple iCal with Google Calendar. In fact, more than 70,000 people have used Spanning Sync to do just that. But calendars are only one part...
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More Innovation

by Vinnie Mirchandani on 21.04.2008 11:38   0 comments , 369 views
On the New Florence blog The Back of the Napkin Air and Sea show State of the Global Mobile Services Market The future of shopping The Networked Pill Innovation in the English Language
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The boxes told me

by Vinnie Mirchandani on 21.04.2008 10:51   0 comments , 394 views
Remember that funny IBM commercial where the help desk lady tells the truckers they are lost because the RFID tags told her so? While the market is applauding IBM's quarter, I want to tell it it is lost. Why? Because...
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The Startup Naming Game

by Zoli Erdos on 21.04.2008 10:29   0 comments , 386 views
Ben Kepes drew my attention to Viisibility, which appears to be a very interesting web based supply chain management / data clearing-house / hub type of a business. At first reading I completely misread the name, thinking it was Visibility.  Wow, what a great choice, I thought - a simple, common word that perfectly [...]
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ReadWriteWeb Turns 5

by Jeff Nolan on 21.04.2008 10:27   0 comments , 348 views

Congratulations to the entire RWW team, they collectively author one of the best new media sites covering technology. Sean Ammirati was over to our house for dinner on Saturday night and we were talking about the evolution of blogs to fully featured new media sites, RWW being a great example of this.

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Twitter Withdrawals

by Jeff Nolan on 21.04.2008 10:27   0 comments , 339 views

And I thought it was just a slow weekend in Twitterville… interestingly, I was getting Twitter updates in Alert Thingy via FriendFeed, not sure why it worked there but not in other Twitter clients or their own web interface.

Siegler’s comments about service status updates is really customer service 101 for companies like Twitter. I can’t [...]

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In the long run, we are all dead...or at least bankrupt

by Vinnie Mirchandani on 21.04.2008 10:03   0 comments , 395 views
"Sure. Right. Call me when IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft, and their plethora of partners start seeing their revenue declining in the F500 space due to Google’s “enterprise” strategy. Until then I’m ignoring the 3:00 am phone calls" Comment by reader...
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A Gartner Sourcing Suite Surprise

by Jason Busch on 21.04.2008 09:59   0 comments , 405 views
Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Sourcing Application Suites (subscription or $1995 required -- which works out to roughly eighty seven bucks a page) came out last week. Having looked at it, I must say that the relative rankings of smaller vendors...
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Web Mission 08, why?

by Dennis Howlett on 21.04.2008 09:04   1 comment , 408 views
Ryan Carson has criticized Web Mission o8, arguing that: I believe the intention for Web Mission was great - networking and exposure for UK web start-ups. That’s fab, but here’s the problem - this project is declaring to the whole world, loud and clear, “We don’t have what it takes over here.” I’ve attended a number of [...]
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"Dumb as a stump"

by Vinnie Mirchandani on 21.04.2008 08:31   0 comments , 376 views
I read last week in USA Today, Harrison Ford so describe his Star Wars character, Han Solo - the one that launched his monster film career. Dumb maybe, but also beloved. Reading about the brouhaha about Psystar last week, I...
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The boxes told me

by Vinnie Mirchandani on 21.04.2008 10:51   0 comments , 394 views
Remember that funny IBM commercial where the help desk lady tells the truckers they are lost because the RFID tags told her so? While the market is applauding IBM's quarter, I want to tell it it is lost. Why? Because...
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Web Mission 08, why?

by Dennis Howlett on 21.04.2008 09:04   1 comment , 408 views
Ryan Carson has criticized Web Mission o8, arguing that: I believe the intention for Web Mission was great - networking and exposure for UK web start-ups. That’s fab, but here’s the problem - this project is declaring to the whole world, loud and clear, “We don’t have what it takes over here.” I’ve attended a number of [...]
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Startup fad diets

by Charles Zedlewski on 20.04.2008 00:50   1 comment , 453 views
Just got through reading this article on Appirio in Forbes online.

Essentially Forbes holds Appirio up as the new paragon of startup thrift. The founder’s taken such overhead reducing steps as:

1. No physical office space except for a rented cube.
2. A team distributed throughout the country, mostly in low-ish cost US states like Arkansas
3. The company owns no hardware. Everything is by the drink from Amazon ECC
4. The company spends ...
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Web Mission 08, why?

by Dennis Howlett on 21.04.2008 09:04   1 comment , 408 views
Ryan Carson has criticized Web Mission o8, arguing that: I believe the intention for Web Mission was great - networking and exposure for UK web start-ups. That’s fab, but here’s the problem - this project is declaring to the whole world, loud and clear, “We don’t have what it takes over here.” I’ve attended a number of [...]
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