Getting to know you

Personally, I can’t abide text chat. Not enough time for me to think (email) and no real-​​​​life presence (phone). However, my new series, This-​​​​Guy-​​​​Emailed-​​​​Me-​​​​About-​​​​His-​​​​New-​​​​Product (as in this and this), con­tinues apace.

Charles Landemaine con­tacted me about Interaction, a text chat applic­a­tion that can be inserted into any web page. This AJAX product comes in three

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Google was framed

For many observers, one of the key lessons of the Kiko tits-​​​​up episode is that startups need to watch out for the evil empire that is the Google Operating System. Mike Yamamoto’s comments in “Google, slayer of Web 2.0 start-​​​​ups” seem typical of the sort of con­clu­sions being drawn. One of Kiko’s

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Back to school

So it’s Number Two in what appears to be my impromptu new series, “I don’t really do product stuff, but this guy emailed me…”. Alex Weidmann was kind enough to get in touch about his new Web 2.0 service, mynoteIT, and then to answer my rude ques­tions about the business behind it.

Again, this

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Premier league?

E-​​​​consultancy reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair paid a visit to Silicon Valley on Sunday:

Hopefully the PM will have left with some ideas about how to create an envir­on­ment in which dotcom and tech start-​​​​ups can flourish here in the UK.

The visit saw Blair urged to set up his own blog, as well to

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