Quero Search For Networked Future

I caught this below by way of the lewispr blog.
“The European Union’s competition watchdog has approved the use of €99m (£76m) of French state aid for a consortium attempting to build an internet search engine to take on Google.
The Quaero project is a coalition of 23 companies led by French technology giant Thomson.”
It originated in […]

Tioti

Glad to see Tioti made its first round of funding today - backed by Pond Ventures who are based in London and Silicon Valley.
I met Paul and Marc last week, the two Tioti founders, and you’d be hard pushed to find two entrepreneurs with a more singular focus. I happen to think the website needs […]

YMOGEN

This is from Ymogen, a UK mobile web community builder. I find it fascinating:

As part of the mobile and web community CMS development, an exploratory research project is being conducted with BBC Innovation Labs and Nokia, using location-based story-telling and its implications for citizen journalism.
Tell us more.

Mobile Social Networks with That UGC Factor Built In

The developers at game array are hoping to take user generated content into the mobile games arena, along with a little social networking. Games are an area I’m concious of neglecting. I’m not a gamer, though all my children are and I have a feeling that in the fan and game culture is a little […]

The Billions $ User Generated Content

Plenty of enterpreneurs have been complaining about the lack of adventure from VCs in supporting content related businesses so Post Le Web 3 I took a look around European web 2.0 commentary sites to see if there was a sensible point to make. One stop off was Coffee Shops of Mayfair, Paul Fishers VC blog.
What […]

Cap Digital - A Little More of that European Web 2.0

Cap Digital is an initiative for knowledge based and content companies in the Ile de France and it has some good ideas. It “articulates a new industrial vision for the Greater Paris Region, popularly and locally known as Ile-de-France or IDF which ranks as one of Europe’s top two business metropolitan hubs.”
The cap Digital […]

Last FM

Last FM got some good coverage at the the Content 2.0 conference so I went over to take a look. The question upper most in my mind with social media is will it work outside music and movies? Music has had such a powerful impact across the web driving MySpace and no doubt soon driving […]

VC Priorities and WIVOIP

Seed-Funded WiVOIP Startup To Seek Financing

I’m curious how VCs make decisions and thought this line in an alarm:clockarticle about new Wireles VOIP company WIVOIP was interesting:
“The “rare and unique” opportunity to assemble a team of this quality with “perfect market timing”
First let me be pedantic. Rare and unique are conflicting terms. Unique is […]

Online Crafts Selling

And this via Mashable: Tt’s like a cross between Flickr and eBay, offering handmade goods for sale through an online marketplace. Over the last few weeks, they’ve been focused on building the market in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but an English version is available and it’s being expanded.
What is it? DeWanda.

More Action in the Ad Space

This via Alarm:clock. Nugg.ad is a German online ads initiative that just got itself cash. Why is action needed on online ads? It’s pesronalised, trackable, ROi calculable ets, isn’t it? No says Nugg:

“More than 99% of the advertising found on the internet is not clicked on, and nearly as much of it is quickly forgotten. […]

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