Who’s the new Microsoft

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!For ages (well a couple of years) people have been touting Google as the new Microsoft, and yes Google has the ability to become a scary beast - while Microsoft took over your PC, Google is taking over your […]

What Currency

It’s always been a foregone conclusion that the currency you charge will be US Dollars.
But the Dollar is so weak it’s getting to the point where it’s just crazy.
Seven years ago, when I first started an online business the exchange rate (Dollar/Pound) was around $1.40, today it’s around $2.08
You don’t need to be a genius […]

Need Some Cheap London Office Space?

Try EasyOffice from the all orange people who seem to be doing a Branson better than the man himself.
EasyOffice seem to have a promo running right now where you can rent a room for just £10 per week.
easyOffice, owned and operated by the easyGroup, will open in Kensington High Street in London on 14 […]

Money Well Spent?

ASAP Ventures have just paid £150,000 for recycle.co.uk. A .co.uk record, that’s for the amount not the dumbest purchase made.
The generic domain name argument is an old one, probably best argued by Al Ries in one of his immutable laws, by asking a simple question, which is the best know and most successful auction site […]

London Hotbed of Social Networking

Brand Republic have just reported a survey commissioned by Garlik.
London was the most popular region for social networking, attracting 51% of the population, closely followed by the South East on 48%, whereas the South West and Scotland produced the lowest participation levels with 37% and 34% respectively.
I suppose when you set out to work at […]

True Knowledge Beta

Everyone (Techcrunch, Techcrunch UK, Read/Write) seems to have covered the beta launch of UK based True Knowledge, except for UK based Blognation, who’s UK section hasn’t seen a post since 29th of October. But they do seem to concentrate on mobile now rather than start-ups, which is odd considering Sam Sethi’s (Blognations founder) vocal posts […]

Google Maps on the Move

Having spent the last 8 weeks getting up close and personal with Google maps for Roomstr I thought this was an interesting story over at Read/Write - Google map enabled Gas (Petrol) Pumps.
With the diffusion of GPS I’m not sure it will have the impact it might have had, but a good idea all the […]

Kylie Goes Social

Brand Republic report that Kylie has launched her own social network Kylie Konnect
Kylie’s label, EMI-owned Parlophone, claimed that she was the first global recording artist to create their own social-networking brand.
Not the prettiest implementation of a social network considering the subject matter.

PHP Firewall

I’m not a great fan of frameworks, Derek Sivers said in his article 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after two years on rails…
…it’s like trying to turn a train into a boat. It’s do-able with a lot of glue.
I think this applies to most frameworks not just RoR. Thankfully we only spent around […]