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The importance of trust and the value of frameworks

David Cruickshank has written a great guest post on Techcrunch UK this morning – Trust me, I’m a start-up.

His basic point that trust is very important, is one that is sometimes forgotten in business. The whole post is well worth a read, but I particularly liked the framework he offers for understanding the [...]

More on social search – Yahoo! testing Delicious integration

One of the things I like about blogging is that it forces me to think about a topic in detail every day, and often that takes me down paths I might otherwise never have found.

Today I started reading a Fred Wilson post on how well delicious search is doing. He doesn’t source the [...]

Flock 1.0 beta changing the game for social networks?

I have been using the Flock 1.0 beta for a few days now and the People Sidebar feature has really got me hooked. The product is well hyped (Techcrunch 40 winner) and has lots of great features (review) – but the People Sidebar could have a significance which goes beyond this latest skirmish in [...]

Techcrunch’ed’UK – it’s a shame

I want to add my voice to all the others out there on the recent goings on at Techcrunch.

Many others have described events, so I won’t do that.  If you haven’t heard and are curious you can work around most of the coverage starting over at Broadstuff. 

I think the whole saga is very unfortunate.  I [...]

Techcrunch UK party and the London Web2.0 scene

A number of people have been putting in a lot of hard work trying to create a Silicon Valley style environment in London to foster entrepreneurialism and web2.0.

You are doing a good job guys and gals.  Your work is important.

The catalyst for this post was the Techcrunch UK launch party on Thursday night last [...]