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Apologies for the delay, but here (YouTube version) and here (MyDeo version for Windows) is the video we shot at the recent TechCrunch UK & Ireland launch party. Just this…

CreateMyNet is a social networking site aimed at small businesses, professional associations, trade associations and individuals. It’s currently in Alpha testing and the public Beta is – according to a…

The Future of Web Apps (UK), run by Carson Workshops, will open for registration this Monday. To avoid disappointment I would book early there are already around 100 people on…

I met up with some of the Microsoft UK based “Emerging Business Team” (EBT) this week. One of the topics of discussion was around how Microsoft could work closer with…

There is a BBC Backstage Christmas Party being organised by Ian Forrester (the serial geek event organiser) at the Cuban Bar on Saturday 9th December in London. The event is…

The Firefox party in London has now been rescheduled for “Friday December 1st, 2006, 6pm until 10pm – Free Drinks & Snacks – then cash bar from 10pm until late.…

[UPDATE: Want to see more secret skype emoticons? See here]. This week saw the launch of Skype 3.0 (beta) and on the surface there is very little new to get…

Attention entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and early stage investors! TechCrunch UK & Ireland is announcing a new initiative to showcase technology startups looking for funding: “Money Mondays” (OK, we know the…

Craig Cockburn from SiliconGlen has just alerted me to a new Google job listing posted on LinkedIn for a “Technical Lead/Manager, Television Technology – London”. “Google is looking for highly…

Simon Murdoch is interesting. Amazon’s first head in the UK has been both an entrepreneur and a VC and now he’s back to being an entrepreneur again. Speaking last night…

Google’s Eric Schmidt made the perfect analogy for webware and web-based applications yesterday at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference: “Fundamentally, it’s better to keep your money in the bank than in…

Later today, at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference, Portland-based Values of n will be launching the beta of Stikkit, the company’s inaugural service. I’ve been following the progress of the company…

I went to the “London 2.0” event last night, which has been going for about a year. It started out as an event for Ruby on Rails developers, but when…

Travelhiker.com, a social networking site based around travel, has launched a revenue-sharing feature for its members who write full-blown travel guides. The way it works its this: An existing member…

Saïd Business School is slowly but surely positioning itself quite savvily in the Web 2.0 space. Last year’s inaugural “Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford” event was excellent (see a PDF…

Earlier today TechCrunch.com reported that DropSend, a file sharing application, had announced itself for sale today. The owners, Bristol Bath based, Carson Systems, says that “the site is profitable and…

Thursday 30th November is Library House’s MediaTech 2.006 event at the Imax Theatre, London which aims to bring together some of the hottest startup companies and incumbent giants together in…

This week like most in London sees a number of very good events which I will be attending. i.e MomoLondon and Internet “Peeps” Dinner. 1. Tomorrow (6th of November) sees…

My Neighbourhoods (MN) is a new UK “community networking” site that has just launched with the aim to “improve communication and neighbourly behaviour in the thousands of communities throughout the…

The Guardian’s Weekend magazine has discovered Web 2.0 and features a number of the hot companies in the area, most of which are old-hat to aficionados of the space (Wikipedia,…

Hotxt, a low cost unlimited message text service which uses a client application on the handset to message other Hotxt users via the Internet, has added new social networking features…

Idiomag.com launches its open beta trial later today. The site is billed as a personal online magazine which will share ad revenue with content providers of RSS feeds – in…

For some weeks now I have been bemoaning the lack of entrepreneurial events occurring north of Marble Arch. Of course if I had looked harder I would have found the…

ConnectMeAnywhere has launched a new, free, service they dub V-mail, which, when you dial a number, sends an MP3 sound recording to a chosen email address. In an email interview…

What happens when you take twenty artists, designers, writers, musicians, bloggers and bon vivants, give them each two minutes and the same question to answer, and turn them loose before…

Earlier today I wrote about my personal experience of moving away from my desktop-OS-centric web 1.0 world to a more collaborative online-centric web 2.0 world. In light of Google’s recent…

There is another Internet People’s dinner being held on Wednesday the 8th November. The speaker this time is Simon Murdoch, CEO of Friendsabroad, Partner in Episode1 and former Head of…

Due to the nature of TechCrunch (UK), I am forever installing and uninstalling beta software, therefore it was only a matter of time before my Media Center PC crashed. Luckily…

Paul Cleghorn sent a ripple of sniggers through the crowd. At an NMK event called Aggregators and Upsetters, the Tape It Off The Internet co-founder was amusing those assembled with…

I have been speaking with Ian Hayward – MD for Glaxstar – about a Firefox 2 launch party here in London for a few weeks now.  As yet the party…