John’s musing

• catech » Blog Archive » Dabble DB Launches Dabble Pages for Simplified Data Entry
  Cool new feature - cooler feedback loop
  (tags: canada database user feedback development online web2.0)

• Inside Facebook » Speculation: Facebook adding Friend Lists; implications for Top Friends, LinkedIn?
  Great to see usability increases, interesting to see how the competitive situation with their top app provider pans out… when you have a closed platform a benign dictatorship is the best you can hope for…
  (tags: facebook applications friends list)
• Financial Times Tech Blog
  List of 20 companies through to first round of SeedCamp 2007
  (tags: seedcamp innovation entrepreneurship incubation startups london)

• Christopher S. Penn » Blog Archive » This is the New Media Fishbowl
  Very cool Facebook app that shows your friend circle by common friend connections, whats more interesting is the outer circle since that’s where I’m crossing networks
  (tags: community friends facebook applications)

• Singapore Entrepreneurs ~ Venture Capital Funding in Singapore » Blog Archive » An informal meeting with Xu Hui, CEO of HiPiHi
  More on the recently launched HiPiHi
  (tags: HiPiHi china secondlife online 3d world singapore)
• 3 Really Good Questions to ask an Investor
  Cracking post, reminder that good investments (at start-up level) are partnerships, not cheque writing exercises
  (tags: startups investments entrepreneur finance angel)

• GigaOM A First-Hand Look at a Chinese Second Life, HiPiHi «
  First solid evidence of Chinese home grown even if ‘heavily inspired by SL’ open 3D world - things look to really heat up in Oct 07
  (tags: china competition copyright creativecommons games mmorpg secondlife hipihi 3d)
• Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Y Combinator accepting applications for Winter 2008
  These guy are really on a roll, lets hope SeedCamp can provide a similar succes in Europe / London
  (tags: ycombinator innovation incubation startups finance business development)
• A VC: Twitter’s Big Week
  Unfortunately, although 25 ppl from my gmail account are on Twitter - none of them are active posters
  (tags: twitter google gmail friends)
• Presentation: Thoughts on Marketing Accountability - Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
  Often wondered about this - how to account for marketing spend
  (tags: marketing accounting validation business investments)

• 50+ Google Reader Extensions and Scripts For Firefox
  More productivity goodness
  (tags: google reader resources tools utilities mashable firefox scripts)
• Wired GC » Blog Archive » Crisis (Mis)management
  Sage advice, and how not to follow it
  (tags: crisis management mismanagement advice)

• The New Futurelab 100: Have the Brand Gods Gone Crazy? - Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
  Should an online marketing blog have a stronger online ‘brand’ than Duracell or Moet & Chandon?
  (tags: marketing online list profile table)
• HiPiHi Seeks To Standardize 3D Worlds And Develop Interoperability
  If this works out it could be the html equivalent for 3D worlds
  (tags: china games secondlife software standards 3d international)
• The coffee shops of Mayfair: Why you probably don’t need venture capital
  Another excellent perspective in the VC vs Angel vs GFDI approach to start-ups
  (tags: investment vc venturecapital finance startups entrepreneurship innovation)
• blognation UK Enterprise » Blog Archive » OpenCoffee Club, Girl Geek Dinners and London’s thriving meetup scene
  Open Coffee goes from strength to strength - just needs a bit of a boost in Bristol
  (tags: opencoffee bristol entrepreneurship innovation entrepreneur startups)

• Elements of Collaboration | Mindquarry | The Open Source Collaborative Software
  Very cool ‘periodic table’ of collaboration - 74 descriptions of people, productivity tools, collaboration software & methods
  (tags: collaboration creativity development enterprise2.0 ideas tools teamwork productivity management)
• StartupSquad » Blog Archive » Chinese Virtual World HiPiHi goes beta
  Heard about this at the Enterprising Games Conference, could be an interesting one to track
  (tags: secondlife virtual world games online)
• catech » Blog Archive » Canada still growing online
  Great news for Canadian startups
  (tags: canada startups innovation market-research)
• Global Neighbourhoods: Facebook Ascending
  Cool data from Shel on Facebook data
  (tags: data facebook marketing market-research)

• Miles Berry :: Blog :: Moodle: probably UK schools’ favourite VLE
  (tags: moodle vle learning elearning)
• : Becta’s big challenge on eStrategy - new survey
  Excellent overview of BESA report on Personalised Learning in Schools
  (tags: moodle vle learning school online)
• If you dig straight down, where will you end up?
  This is very cool, found via www.userfriendly.com - most of the UK get’s very wet just SE of New Zealand, parts of Scotland end up closer to Antartica (which explains the weather)
  (tags: application cool education entertainment mapping mashup google maps)
• GigaOM Skype Groans & SIPphone Gains «
  Indeed - downloading Gizmo Project as I type…
  (tags: voip skype gizmo)
• The Joy of Flex » Blog Archive » 360|Flex day 3: The Ribbit Phone Component with Charles Freedman
  Phone calling from within Flex - all you need is Flash Player 9 - how cool is that (and how scared Skype given current outage)?
  (tags: flash voip skype flex)
• Vancouver: Canada’s Greatest Start-Up City? | Montreal Tech Watch
  Great post about Vancouver and lots more in comments about other great Candian cities in whic to start-up your next venture - including a discussion about the weather!
  (tags: canada vc venturecapital finance startups entrepreneurship funding)
• TechStars Demo Day - Class of 2007
  More early stage startups to watch - and lots of learning about the process that got them there.
  (tags: techcrunch web2.0 techstars entrepreneur innovation startups)
• Minimo project page
  New mobile browser based on mozilla?
  (tags: ajax application browser computing firefox mozilla pda software mobile pocketpc)

Skype is down, people are reporting gmail problems and the UK Post Office is on strike.

Anyone able to do 6-degrees of freedom that proves the connection?