Tag: The Guardian
UK is no.4 entrepreneurial nation in the world
Trend predictions tend to get on my nerves a bit. This one from the Guardian is a good one! Well written, intelligent and believable. Here’s a mini-extract: Michael Hayman wrote: “Rather than a nation of Goliaths, the UK has emerged as a home for legions of small-business Davids”. Michael’s point is supported by the fact…
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How to get more coffee than you can drink
The company that powers the Starbucks iPhone app is Cashstar, a Global Prepaid Exchange member. Here is an interesting story from The Guardian G2 section about a man getting 1,000 prepaid coffees. The idea behind Stark’s card is simple: if you don’t have the money to buy a coffee, but you do have a smartphone,…
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Why build a digital newsstand?
Have you thought about what will happen to all those lovely street-side news stands in Paris through the digital publishing revolution and onwards? I’m not sure either, but there are strong plans afoot for magazine sales via the web in France. On 30 June the French consortium ePresse opened its digital kiosk. Six months of…
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Go the Fuck to Sleep
Well, there we go…what a fine title for a book and it was on one of The Guardian’s news pages (it’s not 1 April is it?). On the basis that the title is one of the most important elements of book marketing this particular volume seems set to do well. Here is the book synopsis:…
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Will Ask Jeeves ask.co.uk make it to 11 years old?
I have to say I had forgotten all about the search engine Ask Jeeves www.ask.co.uk. I was on The Guardian news website and I tripped over a story about Ask Jeeves being 10 years old. Well there’s a tail of survival! So what do you think the chances of Ask still being there in another…
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