October « 2007 « OpenBusiness

Social lending takes next step in the UK

The UK-based peer to peer finance service Zopa (see here for a previous report) had already been "cutting out the middleman" between lender and borrowers for some time by letting lenders specify what Continue reading »

30th Oct, 2007
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Profile: Senokian

Company: Senokian Solutions Ltd

URL: http://www.senokian.com

Description:
Senokian provide Open Source support, consultancy and implementation services to companies around the World.

Our software developers are also responsible for the development of the GPL'd business system Enterprise Groupware System which offers Continue reading »

26th Oct, 2007
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MiniBar podcast

Matthew Cashmore of the BBC was at last Friday's MiniBar with a recorder and he has made a podcast of the event. It includes interviews with the composer of the MiniBar Christian Ahlert; Seedcamp winners Tablefinder, Kublax, Zemanta, Continue reading »

23rd Oct, 2007
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PitchCamp recap

Almost a week a week ago PitchCamp was held in a full room at the St Martins Innovation Centre. The event brought together an interesting group of 60 web entrepreneurs, developers, VCs, and others interested in hearing about the process of setting up a (web 2.0) Continue reading »

22nd Oct, 2007
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Profile: Kublax

Company: Kublax Financial Technologies Ltd URL: http://www.kublax.com Description: Kublax helps people make sense of their money. It aggregates all your financial information and transactions (including credit/debit card statements) and presents all this information in a visual and easy to understand way. Kublax pulls information directly from Continue reading »

19th Oct, 2007
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New: profiles

As you might have noticed, we have introduced a "Profiles" category to the OpenBusiness blog. The first two companies profiled here will be presenting at this Friday's MiniBar. See this post for more information.

18th Oct, 2007
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Profile: Buildersite

Company: Buildersite URL: http://www.buildersite.co.uk Description: Buildersite is a services marketplace –bringing homeowners and tradesmen together in a competitive bidding platform with feedback. Revenue comes from charging the tradesmen a success fee. Continue reading »

18th Oct, 2007
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Profile: Tablefinder

Company: Tablefinder AB URL: http://www.tablefinder.com Description: Tablefinder is a search and booking engine for restaurant tables. Operating in a fragmented market where you have to go to different sites to book different restaurants, the Swedish team brings all fragments together. By doing this, visitors and Continue reading »

18th Oct, 2007
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Open customization

This second installment in a mini series on open innovation deals with the related topic of mass customization. Over the past few years a number of businesses have given consumers the ability to design their own products. This goes beyond deciding on Continue reading »

8th Oct, 2007
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LEGO, mass customization, and open innovation

As part of a mini series looking into open innovation, we have a look at LEGO Factory. Just over two years ago LEGO announced LEGO Factory, a service that lets users build their own virtual LEGO models with the free Continue reading »