Surely this is what Facebook is for….?

Facebook disables UK entrepreneur’s account Posted: 11 Jan 2008 05:16 AM CST UK entrepreneur Raj Anand, founded of kwiqq, has had his Facebook account disabled after he individually emailed all his friends and members of a Facebook group he runs. Anand recently launched an independent social network for Salsa dancers in Brighton and set up a Facebook group to support it. It was this group he was contacting. As he blogs today: I have spent god knows how many hours building my profile on Facebook. Inviting friends, building facebook applications and adding value to Facebook. Recommending this rather stupid social network to my clients and friends. The least I want to do is use the facilities to contact users on my network and tell them about things they are genuinely interested in.  ”Techcrunch UK – 14/1/08″

It’s innovative up North….

http://www.nwstartup20.co.uk/NWStartUp20DEMO?

We at Iperium are delighted to support any venture that highlights the little known fact that entrepreneurial activity is not just confined to our overcrowded capital.

Sponsorship Annoucement….

Iperium are pleased to announce their ongoing sponsorship of a new site dedicated to the under published universe of the European start-up. We are working closely with Ivan Trajkovic on his new site www.europeanstartups.com , the site does exactly as is suggested, brings well written and intelligent analysis on tech start ups within Europe. Hopefully this site will help shine more light on the well created and innovative companies that are being created across Europe.

Bubbly

“Goofy names, retread startup ideas, inexperienced entrepreneurs, free food—the WSJ does a nice job this morning laying out the gestalt evidence that we are in the midst of a second Silicon Valley bubble. Capping off the list of exhibits is none other than last month’s TechCrunch40 conference, which drew about 1,000 people (not counting the random booth babes).There is no question that we are seeing a lot of froth out there, which Mike’s been warning about for quite some time. You should see some of the unsolicited Website launches that get submitted to us every day here. Yesterday alone we received 17 submissions, including one for Hide Pink Shirt Guy. I’m not even sure what that is, but it is not a business.

But are we seeing a financial bubble here,or is there something else going on? There is certainly not as much money being thrown around (yet) as the last time around. While talk of a $10 billion or $15 billion valuation for Facebook feeds into the bubble theory, Facebook seems more like a lone exception. There are convincing arguments that it truly does represent a major new platform and thus deserves a platform-like valuation (there are also convincing arguments against that theory). Nevertheless, the clearest sign of a financial bubble in Silicon Valley would be if valuations across the board began to become divorced from reality. While valuations are certainly up, they are not yet in wacko territory.

Maybe Paul Graham has it right. It’s so cheap to create Web startups these days that we are going to be seeing a whole lot more of them. Many will be inane, redundant, or half-baked. But a few will rise up from the froth and create something lasting. Bubble or not, it’s worth keeping an eye out for those game-changers. We just might have to wade through a lot of junk to find them. “

Things We Like….

 

www.mobiluck.com

The site is currently undergoing an update to take away the impression that this is purely a Bluetooth solution, but having downloaded the platform I can confirm it appears to be a really good social network tool that moves the network away from the desktop to the mobile. The profiling tools really open a lot of opportunity for tie in to many different social networks and applications which should give the solution a wide appeal to operators and communities alike.

The Wisdom Of Crowds

www.crowdstorm.com – coming soon

stuff we like, again

www.webjam.com

Word of the Day

Scrobbling

Web2.0 or not Web2.0 that is the Iperium

We have now enjoyed seven months of recruitment freedom and found the market receptive to our approach and candidates warming to our friendly and flexible style. We are at the point where we either rebrand our URL or tweak the legacy site, how important is a next generation look and feel in the recruitment space and what is the enduser looking for the site to do. So do we keep it simplistic and somewhat vanilla or do we bring the whole 2.0 ethos to the site?

www.iperium-consulting.com

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