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 [...]

We have all had one or more ideas that we immediately laughed off as grandiose or just not feasible right? Many of us have also had that one idea that we did nothing about and later found that someone had beaten us to it. However, what is rare perhaps – certainly for me – is for one idea to fall into both [...]

Can you guess what this business idea is?  Submitted By: Idea Tagger Submitted Description: A service for startups Submitted Tags: stealth, startup, beta, membership,  community, testing, social network.

Owner: Rachel Submitted Tags: confections, photo, keepsakes, novelties      

Can you guess what this business idea is?  Owner: Idea Tagger Submitted Description: A debt management service Submitted Tags: social networks, student debt, debt management, rotation, employers, contribution, web 2.0

Can you guess what this business idea is?   Submitted Tags: bad habit, social network, peer pressure, support, web 2.0

Can you guess what this business idea is?   Submitted Description: A website involving photos and aimed at social networkers. There is nothing like it, but then again, so says everyone with an idea.  Submitted Tags: look alike, social network, web 2.0, photo sharing, widget, people