Archive for May, 2007
OpenBusiness OpenMute Internships
From today, OpenBusiness and OpenMute are accepting applications for its Summer 2007 internships program for students and graduates who are interested in interning for a 10 week period between late June and September 2007. We are currently accepting résumés from students, graduates (and generally enthusiastic people) interested in interning in More »
- 31st May, 2007
- 1 Comment
MiNIbAR SuMmaRY
Hi all - thanks for coming to MiniBar and thanks to Pier (who r u?), who has just provided an excellent summary of the evening. I felt guilty all weekend long for not having done the same thing. On Pier's Feed you can More »
- 29th May, 2007
- 1 Comment
Announcing CC-Salon London: June 28th
Creative Commons, the Open Rights Group and Free Culture UK are pleased to announce the first London CC-Salon event, to be held in Shoreditch on Thursday 28th June 2007. The CC Salon is a monthly event focused on building a community of artists and developers around Creative Commons licenses, More »
- 24th May, 2007
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SaaS v’s desktop apps: Celebrity death-match or horses-for-courses?
I was chatting to one of the founders of salesforce.com a few days ago about the merits of software delivered as a service over the web, negating the need for locally installed apps. I’m talking about the concept of SaaS More »
- 23rd May, 2007
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P2P Finance, Richard Branson, Buy Your Own Footie Club
Besides Zopa and Prosper the professional peer-to-peer finance market seems to move fast. As 'Endless More »
- 23rd May, 2007
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Update – MiniBar Program
On Friday its London's Geek Time again - MiniBar will happen. Below are some updates on the event. We have some additional speakers including Lawrence Coburn of Sexy Widget, who is town from San Francisco. Read/WriteWeb calls it the 'new More »
- 23rd May, 2007
- 1 Comment
Wikipedia for Data – Freebase
Want to know how many dentists are in one mile vicinity, if they are next to tube stop and are specialists in teeth whitening? Freebase say they can not only give you this information, but that the database behind it will be build More »
- 23rd May, 2007
- 4 Comments
So, how fast is fast?
In a recent post I referred to faster and faster internet connections becoming available to consumers, and I figured I’d put a bit more info behind that. I do, quite literally, recall when it was said that we’d never get more than 128kb/s down copper More »
- 22nd May, 2007
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The Emergent Field of P2P Finance
Though the internet has since its inception held theoretically the power to ‘disintermediate’ established firms only in the last year, or two, the p2p concept has More »
- 20th May, 2007
- 2 Comments
MiniBar Site on OpenBusiness
Hi all - its MiniBar o'clock again next Friday 25th. **Launch of MiniBar site on OpenBusiness - here we'll built an archive and MiniBar crowd can leave comments and blog news ** Partnership with O'Reilly: In addition to BBC Innovation O'Reilly is supporting MiniBar More »
- 18th May, 2007
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