How much does an old Web 1.0 startup go for these days? Well, here’s an indication. Pub listings guide BeerintheEvening.com - running since the late 90s - was for £30,000, confirms Chris Hughes of new owner Neransk, a UK-based communities operator. The sale actually happened about a year ago but Neransk only just got back […]

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German video entertainment startup Hobnox is going on a big marketing drive, offering $200,000 worth of prizes and giveaways for artists that take part in its Evolution2 contest where participants win support and development budgets worth $30,000 each. Running out of offices in Cologne and Berlin, the site launched in spring 2008, combining community, production […]

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Jaiku - the Finnish startup which at one point threatened Twitter to become the pre-eminent micro blogging tool before Google bought it - has now moved to a Google data center in preparation for its “transition” to the Google App Engine. Plus, it is now allowing its existing users to create unlimited invitations to the […]

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Ahead of Seedcamp and TechCrunch 50, Alan Patrick from Broadsight / Broadstuff gives an insight into one of the other UK funding programs in this guest post.The startup milk round is nearly upon us, what with Seedcamp and the TechCrunch 50 starting soon. However, it would seem that many in the Tech community don’t realise […]

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Ahead of Seedcamp and TechCrunch 50, Alan Patrick from Broadsight / Broadstuff gives an insight into one of the other UK funding programs in this guest post.The startup milk round is nearly upon us, what with Seedcamp and the TechCrunch 50 starting soon. However, it would seem that many in the Tech community don’t realise […]

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When the history of the Internet is one day written, as it will be, URLs will probably figure high on the list of the jewels Web companies tried to amass, alongside the services themselves. Some of them have been notorious, like Sex.com (wiki entry). But the best are always those that bring something new to […]

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When the history of the Internet is one day written, as it will be, URLs will probably figure high on the list of the jewels Web companies tried to amass, alongside the services themselves. Some of them have been notorious, like Sex.com (wiki entry). But the best are always those that bring something new to […]

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Perhaps the era when old media companies bought new social networks is now over? Why? Because an old media company has now re-made a social network on its own - and it appears to be working. After a fashion. The company in question is ITV, and the network is Friends Reunited. ITV says today that […]

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With the promise of a credit crunch fast approaching, people are starting to tighten their belts. The tech industry can often be one of the first to experience budget cuts and project cancellations but with distributed teams able to work together it doesn’t have to be this way. None of the new collaborations applications cost […]

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So there have been many attempts to make it easier to collaborate over projects. You’ve got apps that will put yellow stickies onto web pages (like Fleck) and lots of collaboration apps from the likes of Basecamp, Huddle, Sosius and Ximdesk. There is Conceptshare, Octopz, Cozimo, and Thinkature but fe have concentrated on the single […]

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If you’re a European startup going to TechCrunch 50 (either as a demo company, individual, or even if you’re just thinking about being in San Francisco while the event is on) then please let me know or leave a comment below. There may well be scope for a “UK/Irish/Euro Meetup” if people are interested…

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TechCrunch UK recently ignited a debate around education startups in the UK, but it’s quite clear that the biggest Web 2.0 education market is language learning - and that market, obviously, scales internationally. Here, Nicola Robinsonova of Learnitlists.com pens a guest post about the myriad services out there and which ones cut the mustard.‘Unless there […]

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So as this terrible wet August / Summer ends and online battle re-commences once more, I thought I may as well have a stab at giving you some ideas about how to interact with a blog like this. I’m going to use as inspiration Jason Calacanis’ post on SAI today and also one some points […]

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Despite a plethora of events supporting “new media” types, and even such things as Geek Dinners, the UK eco-system around “hackers” (good programmers, in the true definition) - remains thin. Or so argues Ian Hogarth of Songkick in this guest post.I believe the most critical thing we can do to improve the ecosystem for start-ups […]

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TechCrunch UK has been named the best “Web 2.0 and business blog” in the UK, by the readers of Computer Weekly magazine.The ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 08 sifted hundreds of entries and asked readers to vote on their favourite blogs. The judges said:In the Web 2.0 and business blogs category we were looking for our […]

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