Perry Chen wants to gather a million mini-Medicis on the Web. His site, KickStartr.com, is an online community designed to help artists, musicians, athletes, inventors, and filmmakers raise small sums of money from a large number of patrons to help them fund their projects. A band might upload audio and video of itself, submit [...]
“Jackass meets Facebook, only better, much better!” That’s how Al Gosling describes his latest venture www.exbrag.com. The Chief Executive of the Extreme Group, which now includes a TV channel, theme parks, hotels and cafes, has teamed up with online daring site Bragster to create an “extreme” social networking online experience, where profiled users can [...]
The Internet has become a podium for rants, but Andrew Mason hopes his Web site will spur actions, not just more hot air. ThePoint.com invites people to create or join a campaign on anything, from winterproofing Chicago with a dome to pressuring Pfizer to cut drug prices in developing countries. Signing up is free, [...]
UKpreneur catches up with the next Alex Tew, Patrick Hankinson as he tries to make $1 million via his website The Social Millionaire. Can you tell us who you are, your age and a little about your current project? My name is Patrick Hankinson and I just turned 20 years old. I am a [...]
START-UP: MIND CANDY (ONLINE GAMES) Mind Candy is the creation of Michael Acton Smith, 33, who in 1998 set up the e-commerce site Firebox, which now has a turnover of around £11m. ‘Our latest game is Moshi Monsters, which is like an online Tamagotchi. It’s aimed at 7- to 12-year-olds, who can adopt and [...]
I have just started networking at some of the UK’s dot com networking events that are springing up all over the UK. One of them is the OpenCoffee Club. OpenCoffee Club and is one of a significant handful of meetings for a bounce-back generation of internet entrepreneurs, future technocrats and investors to hook up and [...]
I came across this article about a web 2.0 from back in 2007and thought what a great idea it was, but can’t seem to find out what has happened? The story: When Oxford student Thomas Whitfield put forward his idea in the university’s own version of the BBC’s Dragon’s Den, he hoped for nothing [...]
Well i was quite late in signing up to Facebook. I have no Myspace page and didn’t want to join any social networks for the very reason of i don’t have enough time and i knew if i joined i would be addicted to it – and i was right! I joined yesterday, i [...]
A new class of startups is emerging that is part blogging, part genealogy and part something unique. They are focused on the very long term – getting and then keeping customers for decades, and encouraging friends and especially family members to join, too. Once they’re hooked, they’ve spent so much time building content that [...]
The search for business contacts is fast moving online. Social networks — long the domain of youngsters interacting with their friends — are increasingly attracting the corporate set on the hunt for sales leads, new hires, new jobs, vendors, contractors and other contacts. For business users, the most popular site these days is LinkedIn, [...]