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Twitter Alternatives – Plurk Or Pownce

6. June 2008

It’s no surprise that twitter can be a bit unstable from time to time. Twitter is probably the only service I know that’s almost more down than it’s up, and still have a loyal fan base and increase it’s number of users. But what are the alternatives? There are a lot of similar micro-blogging services out there, [...]

Yooba – Swedish Meatballs Or Webbased Marketing Tool?

28. February 2008

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From time to time people are kind enough to mail me and ask me to write about their startup or interview someone. I just love to get these mails. It makes me feel important and a bit like Darren Rowse and Shoemoney. Many of the mails are the copy/paste standard “Hey interesting site you have. [...]

Pownce – What Is It All About? Is It Better Than Twitter?

26. July 2007

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Pownce (pounce) – You might have heard or read about it. It’s all over the internet, not as in Joost-all-over-the-internet, but pretty close. This is what they say about themselves: Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. [...]

Special Invitation To The Beta News Readers – Join Searoo Alpha

20. July 2007

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Rhode Island, USA based Swift Blue has asked me to invite The Beta News readers to join the alpha test of their local search engine. I’ve previously written about one of Swift Blue’s project, FamFridge, unfortunately a tragic family issue has set them back. Searoo Local Search is only for the US at the moment, so [...]

FIFA 2008 News Is Launched – It’s Time To Start Experimenting

19. July 2007

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Three weeks ago I launched my second site – FIFA 2008 News. It has the latest news about EA Sports’ coming FIFA Soccer 2008 featuring interviews, screen shots, trailers and demos and press releases directly from EA Sports’ Press Room. It all started out with an article I wrote for Connected Internet, which quickly became [...]

Pownce – The Way To Send Stuff

13. July 2007

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I recently joined Pownce. If you haven’t heard about them here is a quick quote from their site: Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, or install [...]

7 New Online Dating Start-Ups

13. June 2007

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Did you ever use one of the online dating services? There are plenty of sites on the web offering you personals ranging from adult dating to christian dating from black dating to gay dating. I’ve collected a bunch of the newest and most innovative dating sites. All of them are start-ups. A few of them requires [...]

Desktop Tower Defense Creates Gaming Site

10. June 2007

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Did you read my post on Connected Internet about the Top 6 addictive and free online games? If not you should head over there and try a few of them out. Number one on the list, Desktop Tower Defense’s designer has teamed up with the designer of FlashElementTD. They’ve quit their day job and started their [...]