Category: Innovation

  • The Brits who went to Silicon Valley

    I’ve been following the progress of a group of 20 British tech startups who have been in Silicon Valley this past week as part of Web Mission 2008. The trip – sponsored by HSBC Bank, UK Trade and Investment, TechCrunch,…

  • Add video comments with seesmic for WordPress

    Video startup seesmic has released a terrific conversational tool – a plugin for WordPress that enables you to create and post a video comment. Not only that, it also enables a blogger to create a post that includes a video…

  • Buzz on the go

    A couple of weeks ago, I met Luke Razzell at the social media cafe in London. Luke is CEO of i-together, the UK company behind Blog Friends, one of the more useful applications for Facebook. What Luke introduced me to,…

  • Quit smoking with Twitter

    Or more precisely, with Qwitter, a neat idea from TobaccoFreeFlorida, an advocacy group in that US state dedicated to raising awareness of health and other issues related to smoking. Note I didn’t say this group is anti smoking. It is,…

  • The rise of instant mobile video

    Being able to record video of something and then share it with lots of people – YouTube, anyone? – isn’t a new idea by any means. It seems there are any number of video sharing services that you can sign…