So I started this site …..or ….Fishing for startups….

… and in the spirit of “If you build it, they will come!”, let’s see if it takes off.
I read Sam Sethi’s posting on TechCrunch about new entrepreneur matching service “AngelPitch” this morning, pondering if it would work (linking entrepreneurs with business angels / VCs via video-conferencing) or not. It was Sam’s last comment that [...]

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pmeme.com- One to watch!

Forget trawling your usual sites like Digg, TechMeme, TechCrunch and wherever else you might get your daily dose of IT news for a mention of what the big names are up to. With all the gems worth knowing on all the movers and shakers of the IT world, pmeme is definitely one to watch.

It gathers [...]

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Google Co-Op Custom Search released

Since Yahoo, MSN and others have recently done it, it’s not new, but Google have just launched the Co-Op CSE, a service that allows you to build a customised search engine to include on your site.
The cool thing about this is it allows you to index your own site, blog, wiki or wherever you put [...]

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Happy 5th Birthday to the iPod!

The iPod is 5 today. See Steve Jobs on stage at the original launch here.
Congratulations to Apple on 5 years of leadership in consumer electronics and for bringing the joy of portable digital audio to the masses.
Meet the rest of the iPod family tree here.
For those who know me, the 80Gb video iPod is the [...]

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Secunia on the ball with Zero Day IE7 alert

Well folks, after a long wait Internet Explorer 7 has arrived. The final release happened today and everyone has been blogging about it. The verdict is already mixed across the blogosphere and the news that the excellent Secunia have verifired a zero day vulnerability will not help persuade people to switch.
Secunia has verified an [...]

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