Andy Jamieson: Entrepreneur

Working collaboratively can be painful. Web based applications are making that easier, however, how easy are they for the less tech savvy among either work collegues or family to operate. That is the true test of how a tool might add value.
Here is a great site with loads of reviews of hot products. Maybe you [...]

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I have had two tradesmen come to my house of late. One key trend is that they never clean up. They show you the “finished wok” and all I see is a kitchen covered in silt, dirt and mess.
How can they get away with such bad customer service?
More to the point, how long will they [...]

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Here are some of my favourite ones… anyone else got some good ones?
From the NBA
I will wait to post the one for Le Tour de France… also a good one.

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In reports out today, MySpace, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and others have joined a movement called data portability.
Tech Crunch notes some key benefits for consumers such as syncronisation of data eg friends lists or personal data. However, just because i am using Twitter, do i want to know who else is? Maybe, maybe not! Or taken [...]

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SaaS is all the rage at the moment. More than just Salesforce.com, who have certainly made a successful SaaS business. Rather there are open source alternatives such as Sugar, where prices vary depending on the levels of service needed.
Is this a paradigm shift?
It very well might be, why worry about having the latest software, why [...]

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Have you noticed how tourist shops that traditionally sell postcards, snacks and bottles of water can all of a sudden produce an unparalleled variety of umbrellas within minutes of a rain shower. There is something in being timely that enables this impulse purchase to be highly effective and thus a highly popular technique seen the [...]

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The challenge with all ideas is where do they come from, especially when I cannot generate them. I would love to be able to store up the ideas that i generate on good idea generation days and use them when i am struggling. Seth Godin wrote a helpful piece on how we can use the [...]

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It is interesting to think about how we order the mass of information in our lives. From our receipts for tax, through to contacts in our email program. How do we view all this stuff?
With the boom in social networking, through generic sites such as Facebook or MySpace, through to focused sites such as LinkedIn [...]

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If you want to see a video that in 8 mins will give you and update on the world and an insight into where it is going….then watch this video - Did you know 2.0
It is a little dated - 2006 - and yet it still shows the growth rates and trends that have impacted [...]

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CHINA ( well by the end of 2008).
This will make China the number 1 country in the world in regards to internet population usage. Also it will mean that the US will slip out of number 1 and into number 2 spot. The game is changing.
Five reflections on what this means….
1: The web [...]

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