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 […]

News Roundup

Some interesting news in the world of web this week.
Google fight back at Facebook with the imminent launch of OpenSocial as reported by Techcrunch.
Saga launch a social network aimed at the over 50’s.
Friends Reunited wake and smell the coffee as they propose to drop their subscription model.
Nestoria propose house price data via their API, this […]

Shake out time?

Mike Butcher reports on Rummble and asks
In the US right now there is a shake-out happening amongst sites which allow people to create local reviews…does the shakeout in the US provide an indication of where the UK is headed - full article.
I think it’s inevitable. Maybe it’s a matter of timing, these local review sites […]

Google map Icon Creator, Applications and the Future

If you’ve ever done any development work that includes Google maps and you’re not a genius with Photoshop then this should certainly help - Terra IMS’ Mapicon Factory.
It has a great UI and has a free option, it’s great for creating unique icons for your Google maps.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks here at […]

What’s New?

I manage to keep up with what’s going on in the world through various methods, for news on the latest HD TV I talk to my mate Eric, he runs a shop close to me and at present is deciding if he likes the new Philips Ambilight.
For Tech news Mike Butcher (TC UK) always seems […]

Seasonal VC Disorder

Like the coming of winter it seems inevitable that we cover once again the argument regarding both VC and whether to go to Silicon Valley. Mike Butcher’s piece ‘Dear VC’s: look at the idea not the postcode’ and Ryan Carson’s ‘Response to Paul Graham‘ are this winters winners.
Ryan makes a great counter argument to Paul’s […]

Web 2.0 Real Estate Application

Continuing our Web 2.0 application development we are getting close to the release of Roomstr - last week we had to step up the development schedule for Roomstr, which wasn’t due for release until January 2008.

But, due to some unforeseen circumstances we are bringing it forward to early November 2007. Depending on how those ‘unforeseen’ […]

SMS on track

We reached a major milestone with our SMS gateway today with the completion of the white label user section.
We’ve pulled together a lot in a short time, outbound sms (mobile terminated) to over 660 networks in over 160 countries, international inbound (mobile originated) sms with full USA and Canada coverage plus over 40 other countries.
Developers […]

Need Some Cash?

Tomorrow is the deadline for Y combinator, so if you want a slice of the pie you better apply.
Paul Graham (the guy behind Y combinator) has an ‘essay‘ on web start-ups which is an interesting read of an investors perspective.
When starting a startup was expensive, you had to get the permission of investors to do […]

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