John’s musing

• Grockit Raises Cash, Prepares “Massive Multiplayer Online Learning” Product.
  Interesting to see what MMOL actually means in practice, it could be genuinely game changing
  (tags: innovation education learning mmorpg)
• Venture Law Lines: Business Development Bank Canada: 2006 Results
  (tags: venturecapital vc finance angel seed funding canada)

• Facebook’s News Feed Preference Tool- Manual Attention Dashboard
  Very cool interface - had also passed me by, will try tweaking the preferences and see if there’s any noticable difference
  (tags: facebook news feed customisation)
• Tim Sneath : From A to Z… 50 Silverlight Applications
  Cool list - just need to find some time to try a few out
  (tags: .net application applications apps demo microsoft silverlight software)

• TechCrunch Partners With SeedCamp Europe
  SeedCamp Europe gathering (more) momentum and pace…
  (tags: startups innovation finance seedcamp ycombinator europe entrepreneurship entrepreneur)
• Venture Hacks — Thoughts on ‘The Equity Equation’
  Another cracking post and link to Paul’s original post
  (tags: entrepreneurship venturecapital venture equity startups funding)

Went to the CTN Launch last night at the Watershed. Cracking keynote from Michael Johnson (Pixar).
Full notes over on my jbsh company blog.

• Strong performance from university businesses | Special Reports | EducationGuardian.co.uk
  Always good to see, but I’m sure that with an impressive £186m from IPR, we’re still some way behind our US colleagues/competitors
  (tags: hei hefce university business innovation)
• Pitch Everyone, All the Time
  Good advice and timely reminder
  (tags: startups entrepreneurship)
• Wellington Grey — Miscellanea — Periodic Table of the Internet
  Cunningly ordered map of the internet
  (tags: archive blogging digg periodic table web2.0 internet humour)

• Touch Me: Linux MPX Multi-touch Table May Become Alternative Microsoft Surface - Gizmodo
  (tags: displays graphics hardware interface linux multitouch touchscreen)
• Contractor’s Conundrum - Found+READ
  Some great notes on how to manage your IPR when contracting, which is also a good reader if about to engage a contractor…
  (tags: advice business legal consulting ip ipr development)
• London gets free Wi-Fi | CNET News.com
  In Bristol we have a properly free WiFi network in the city centre - but I’d happily sit through 15s to get 15min ‘free’ WiFi in London
  (tags: london wireless wifi free)
• Top 10 Facebook Apps: Work
  More stuff to try out…
  (tags: applications business facebook mashup web2.0 apps tools)
• Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer » The Silverlight Airlines Demo is Awesome
  Need to check out this Silverlight app
  (tags: ria silverlight mashup applications)
• Technofile Europe: Understanding valuation risk
  (tags: venturecapital vc investments investing value valuation dilution)
• Singapore Entrepreneurs ~ Venture Capital Funding in Singapore » Blog Archive » In Conversation with Lynda Brown, President NewMediaBC
  (tags: digital media networking canada startups innovation)

• How to Change the World: The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs
  (tags: advice blogging business communications companies entrepreneurship entrepreneur vc startup startups)

• Yorkshire Games Academy « Pixel-love
  More moves afoot to support the highly innovative UK games industry
  (tags: games development innovation support government region regional UK)
• Connecting Bristol » Free open space training and workshops
  (tags: open meeting social)

• hamster sudoku
  Actually a semi-random set of images from Flickr based on a tag search
  (tags: ajax api cool flickr fun games puzzle photos sudoku humour)
• Inside Facebook » Facebook App Developers Get Google Analytics!
  Two news items that should make managing a Facebook app more analysis driven
  (tags: analytics applications google facebook)

• Paul Kedrosky: Booming IT Spending in Middle East & Africa
  This ties in with the Fast Future report a couple weeks back at Enterprising Games
  (tags: region technology spending middleeast trends)
• Making Executive Development Pay
  (tags: training development management executive)
• Fostering Independent Game Development
  A look at Kongregate.com (which has Desktop Tower Defense) and Manifesto Games
  (tags: games gaming business businessdevelopment innovation market)
• MyGame: Create & Publish Simple Flash Games
  One to waste time on later…
  (tags: flash fun game games gaming social web2.0 videogames)
• 10 Habits of Highly Effective Founding - Found+READ
  One for reference
  (tags: entrepreneurship howto startup startups management)
• The Role of the Blog in the Consulting 2.0 world - broadstuff
  Excellent post and thoughts on blogging, one for internal consideration
  (tags: blogging bloggers business consultation)