links for 2008-10-13
By Dominic Campbell • Oct 13th, 2008 • Category: Useful links-
"Angels Den offers a service for two types of people: those who are trying to obtain business funding and small business finance – and those private investors (the business angels ) looking for exciting business ideas to invest in."
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"creating the first comprehensive, evolving source of information, insight, and personal engagement for the disability community."
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"Can new forms of collaboration enabled by the web help us address global challenges?"
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personal budget management system (via ivoivo)
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"BDI is a not for profit yet commercially focused organisation. It brings together the ‘thinkers and linkers’ in the innovation space including strategic designers, brand and business owners, academics and dealmakers. These experts exchange knowledge and ethically and safely create, develop and trade Intellectual Property (IP)." And all in a very closed membership space…
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Research and consultation consultancy
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"Helping re-invent the RSA from the outside in as well as the inside out." Project started to help reinvent and reinvigorate the RSA with the help of its fellows.
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"Plings are activities that take place in the free time of young people, at youth, sports, education, community or other centres… The Plings project itself provides a bank through which providers of activities can pool and aggregate information. This can then be published and disseminated through a variety of channels, including the Plings website but also additional web channels, mobile phones and other media."
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"The company behind some of the best-designed kitchen tools learns the most when it does something wrong."
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"When OXO International developed a range of high quality, easy to use kitchen tools, the award winning designs piqued the interest of other manufacturers, keen to profit from the obvious and universal appeal of ergonomically designed kitchenware. In order to maintain market share, OXO launched a new range, copying its own up-market originals." Story behind one of the heroes of Enabled by Design.
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Free Web Meeting, Free Web Conferencing, Meetup, Open Source, Net Meeting, eLearning, web conference, Unified Collaboration, Online Meetings, Online Training, Free Screen Sharing, collaboration, live meeting (via Alfie Dennen)
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A really interesting Trust commited to preserving "the best of the traditional Sri Lankan village way of life whilst taking the advantages the west offers to improve health and sustainability in rural areas." run by a former colleague of mine.
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Me on twitter
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"Website privacy policies take on average 10 minutes to read and sometimes run into thousands of words, researchers have found. While some are short, others would take over half an hour to read, researchers said." So the value of them is? (via Michael Grimes)
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A big prediction this one and undoubtedly wrong, but yes it'll grow, naturally, with major implications for business and government in terms of the office estate, investment in new types of tech, HR pressures etc (via Derek Baird)
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Many thanks for the listing Dominic.