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  • TechCrunch UK in trouble?

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    TechCrunch UK seems to be having some difficulties this evening

  • Salim launches Confabb

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    My good buddy Salim has taken the covers off his latest venture Confabb and it has received a glowing review from TechCrunch, amongst others. Confabb is a conference aggregation and organisation site. It has a database of over 16,000 conferences and the ability to log in and add more or use the site to help…

  • TechCrunch UK launch

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    TechCrunch UK, although running for a couple of months now, had its official launch last night. I was fortunate enough to get an invite, and I decided to fly over for the event primarily because Mike Arrington was going to be there and I wanted to finally meet him (we’ve had several conversations over email…

  • Any questions for Sam Sethi?

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    Sam Sethi is an entrepreneur, technologist (entrepologist) and consultant. Sam has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years for companies like Microsoft (strategy director in MSN UK ), Netscape, Gateway Computers and CMGi, in a variety of senior technical and marketing roles. Most recently Sam has been charged with setting up TechCrunch UK.…

  • Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 to be abandoned?

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    Microsoft has announced today that Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is available for download. In the Microsoft announcement, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer development at Microsoft, said the timeline for further releases is: Windows Vista Beta 2, and then Beta 3 of IE7, release candidates, and then a final release before end of…

  • Google cannot be trusted with confidential information

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    Google inadvertently released some confidential information last week – the information was in the speaker notes of a PowerPoint file posted for the Google investors meeting. Greg Linden downloaded the PowerPoint file not realising fully what it contained but as soon as he started blogging about it, it was pulled from the Google site and…

  • Why don't online calendar apps allow importing of existing calendars?

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    Word on the blogosphere is that Google are developing an online calendar application called CL2 – Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has pictures of the app here. An online calendar is something I would find very useful – I have loads of information in my calendar on my desktop but I lose that when I go…

  • Sneak peek at edgeio!

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    I received an invite to take a sneak peek at edgeio this morning – edgeio is Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame’s latest startup. The tagline for edgeio is “Listings from the edge” so the name comes from the word “edge” and “io” (input/output?). The idea behind edgeio is that people can advertise items for sale…