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Wall Street to Sand Hill Road: we won't be fooled again

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 07:45:00 UT

For the first time since 1978, a full calendar quarter went by with not a single VC-backed company going public.

The Web Week in Review

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:04:00 UT

From more Yahoo drama to a big money investment and rumoured acquisition to the news that the mobile phone may be great for brain tumours, the tech news that interested me this week was diverse.

Is Web 2.0 changing the entrepreneur-VC dynamic?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:50:00 UT

In Web 1.0, a considerable amount of startup activity was centered on the notion that the internet was a "commercial" medium.

It wasn't uncommon to see an e-commerce startup raise an eight figure round of funding early on in its lifecycle.

Visual book browsing with Zoomii

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:30:00 UT

Zoomii, launched last week, is a virtual bookstore�that displays books from Amazon.

The site is built on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and uses the Amazon S3 hosted storage service. Buyers are directed to the online retail giant via an affiliate link.

Should bloggers be considered members of the "press"?

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:45:00 UT

Recently, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch lambasted the CEO of online music startup TuneCore, Jeff Price, for refusing to provide one of his interns, Peter, with information about his company's funding.

I criticized Arrington for what I saw as an unnecessary use of his "podium" to disparage Price when he had no legitimate reason to do so.

Polar Rose widens beta test

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:32:00 UT

Polar Rose is a Swedish startup that has been developing facial recognition technology for image search since it launched at the end of 2006.

It has recently updated the look of its image search facility and made the image recognition plugin available for Internet Explorer users, so we've taken a look to see how effective it is...

The Web Week in Review - Money Edition

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT

Drama 2.0 has his mind on his money and his money on his mind more than usual lately, so this week's installment of The Web Week in Review is focused on cold hard cash - who's making it and who isn't.

Site review: The Filter

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 07:45:00 UT

The Filter, Peter Gabriel's�new�online�music, movies and video recommendation service launched this week.

As with Last.fm, it aims to provide users with recommendations based on their preferences and listening habits, but is it as good?

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Save web pages forever with Iterasi

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:05:00 UT

Iterasi is a browser-based bookmarking tool that can be used to capture a webpage in the state in which you see it and save it for later.

Unlike some other bookmarking tools, Iterasi doesn't just bookmark a link to the web page you saved, but saves a screenshot of the site in html format.

Q&A: Kieron Smith of BookRabbit.com

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 07:45:00 UT

BookRabbit is a recently launched website which combines book retailing with some very useful social network features. Users can upload their bookshelves and compare these with other users.

We recently talked to MD Kieron Smith, who has�previously�managed e-commerce operations at both Waterstones and Game Group....

Web 2.0: the business equivalent of a hernia?

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:45:00 UT

Although the Web 2.0 hype is still alive and well, an increasing number of people are starting to recognize that Web 2.0 probably isn't going to be the cash cow that many thought it was destined to be.

Last week, The Financial Times published an article that stated this fact quite bluntly: "Web 2.0 fails to produce cash".

Mahalo uses GTA 4 content to boost its traffic

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:55:00 UT

Grand Theft Auto IV was released recently and, predictably, there has been a spike in the number of searches related to the game.

Jason Calacanis' human edited search engine Mahalo is ranking well on Google for a number of terms related to the GTA IV, having designed a comprehensive guide to the game. It proves that a curated approach to the web can pay dividends, in Google terms...

Q&A: Mia Woodford of charity auction site Buy Once Give Twice

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:36:00 UT

Buy Once Give Twice is a charity auction site which sells items that have been left uncollected from charity balls and other functions.

After noticing that many items from charity auctions went unredeemed,�Mia Woodford and Emma Leschallas launched Buy Once Give Twice in April this year.

We talked to co-founder Mia Woodford about the website...

Domain name tools for brainstormers

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:29:00 UT

Choosing a domain name these days for a new web venture or microsite is an activity filed somewhere between painful and truly horrendous. So what tools can you use to minimise headaches and the time spent on finding a domain name?

VC: European media companies need to buy more of my startups

Wed, 28 May 2008 07:09:00 UT

Saul Klein, a partner at Index Ventures, one of Europe's largest venture capital firms, has some shocking advice for European media companies.

They need to buy more of the startups that VC firms like his have backed.

The Web Week in Review: Microsoft Edition

Fri, 23 May 2008 08:57:00 UT

Microsoft was all over the news this week and its CEO was on the move - in more ways than one.

Thus, this week's Web Week in Review is dedicated to the software company everybody loves to hate.

Q&A: Shane Lake, co-founder of hungryhouse.co.uk

Thu, 22 May 2008 08:18:00 UT

Hungryhouse, a site that helps users find and order takeaways online, came away from a Dragons' Den appearance last year with the promise of a �100,000 investment.

Unfortunately, the deal didn't work out in the end�and co-founders Shane Lake and Tony Charles have since received a �150,000�cash injection�from elsewhere.�

We talked to Shane about the Dragons' Den�experience and where they see the site heading...

Craigslist: Meg Whitman seduced us

Thu, 22 May 2008 08:17:00 UT

In what is one of the more amusing lawsuit filings I've read in recent memory, Craigslist has fired back in its legal battle with eBay.

Site review: BookRabbit - Last.fm for readers?

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:46:00 UT

BookRabbit, launched last week, is a new website which aims to do for books what Last.fm has done for music on the web.

Powerset opens up search engine to the public

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:30:00 UT

Having kept its technology under wraps for more than a year, 'natural language search engine' Powerset has finally�opened up to the public.