Hello folks (plural is optimistic, given that the analytics predict all of 0.23 of a person reading this post today)
As the London summer sun’s been kind the last week, I’ve been doing my own wandering around and thought I’d share some bits:
Two new startups that I like
- bookfresh - You know how you like making online reservations for your restaurant online. Well, this allows you to book an appointment for ‘anything’ - your barber, plumber, dance class, psycho- therapist… open APIs, SaaS model… watch out for these guys.
- aardvark - enabling human touch to online queries through your network of friends. check what pluggdin has to say. Quite a cool bot.
News from the week
- alootechie - games2win getting 13mn visitors a month
- alootechie - komli says CTR is not effective measure for success of online marketing (surprise surprise)
- Google blog - Adsense for mobile launched..
- Tech Crunch - iporn is finally here with iphone 3.0 (maybe now my SEO will kick in and this blog will get more hits!)
Blog of the week - www.gapingvoid.com. Cartoons on the back of business cards. Is this the new Dilbert?
Acronym of the week - HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion)… ever noticed how decisions are taken in a corporate setup?… Ashok would know a thing or two about ’stakeholder management’ in big companies
Take from the week - Wanna be a millionaire? Think of any micro business process that is done by any and every business out there.. from that super set…think of the ones that can be done online… can you create that process into a service through an open API based model? for e.g. appointy or google calendar offers the calendar process as a service, bookfresh offers reservations and scheduling, hmmm… top of my head here are some ideas… voice mail? employee reference check?
(the author knocks his head back as he visualises the millions pouring in.. and decides to celebrate with strawberry youghurt)
