This analogy might be a bit of a stretch but I think that it is useful for people who are sitting on the fence about starting up their much dreamed about business venture to consider the following question – why is it that your desire to start a business remains a dream even though you are able [...]

I woke up this morning (U.K. time) to a barrage of blog posts on the possible acquisition of StumbleUpon by eBay, the most popular appearing to be from TechCrunch, GigaOm and Mashable. Some of these posts suggest plausible reasons for the acquisition but none that I find compelling. The only thing that makes sense to [...]

Robert Scoble and Jeremiah Owyang are streaming live from Web 2.0 Expo using technology from Ustream and I bet many more will follow. It makes me wonder how long it will be before we see a search engine dedicated to finding live video streams – if there isn’t one already that I am not aware of that [...]

Ever since broadband became popular I have nursed an idea of streaming live video to ethinic minority groups in the western world – video of events back home that they can’t attend, such as

For all I know this already exists in some form but it occurs to me that something really cool could be developed by mashing up Second Life, Justin.TV and Twitter  – three of the currently most talked about web applications in the blogosphere, considered by many to be leading the evolution of the web from [...]