Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

UK startup feature: Miniclip.com

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Nice article in the Sunday Times (10/02/2008) about the games startup www.miniclip.com. Which has beeing running since 2001 and is now making some serious money from people ‘just playing games’.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article3341684.ece

Microsoft: Office Live for Small Businesses gets upgrade

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Microsoft start edging into the SME market - time to get our skates on :p

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 10, 2008 — To help small businesses effectively market themselves and sell online, Microsoft Office Live Small Business (http://www.smallbusiness.officelive.com) today launched new features and enhancements to its Web service. New features include Store Manager, an e-commerce tool to help small businesses easily sell products on their own Web site and on eBay; and E-mail Marketing beta, to make sending e-mail newsletters and promotions simple and affordable. Small businesses that sign up will receive a valuable set of tools and features for free, including Web hosting; rich site design capabilities; numerous productivity applications; contact management software for performing basic customer relationship management (CRM); and custom domain name registration with 100 business e-mail accounts (custom domains are free for the first year). This release is also compatible with the Firefox 2.0 Web browser, making the service accessible on both Macs and PCs.

When development gets a little easier

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

You might recall that last Friday our inbox looked like this:

Inbox - Version 0.0

Well, it now looks like this:

INbox 2

It’s still got a few interface tweaks to iron out some differences between it and the ultra smart StyleGuide version - or else Eds will be round 8}

Web 2.0 security risks being ignored

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Good article which looks at the coming boom in Web2.0 apps (like Woosabi) and their impact on the current security that most organisations have in place.

Web 2.0 presents a barely understood risk to companies embracing social networking and instant messaging technology as business tools and could force a change in corporate IT security and greater use of encryption.”

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Who said Google Street View was creepy?

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

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