"Web 3.0" Will Be About Data

"Explicit and Implicit data"! LinkedIn Founder: "Web 3.0" Will Be About Data "good internet companies do not ambush their customers!"

StartUp Britain portal

StartUp Britain: a living market-place for the wide range of enterprise support available on the web. It will be interesting to watch this one take off and see how useful the resources inside prove to be. The people as part of the service will be key as well as the pointers.

http://realbusiness.co.uk/management/startup_britain_launches_today

Inspired by a similar program startupUSA and timely with the govt cuts and big society. Take a look if you starting up! http://www.startupbritain.org/

Poor old P.I.G.S!

Poor old Portugal, if only P.I.G.S. could fly!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9434000/9434575.stm

We have to wonder what would have happened to the UK had the roof not begun to be fixed after the sun stopped shinning!

http://nickhorslen.blogspot.com/search?q=pigs

http://nickhorslen.blogspot.com/search?q=P.I.G.s

Educate Share Learn online: YouTube - Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com)

Bill Gates favorite teacher!

1M students a month watching 20k different videos!

This is the power of people on the web, the power of people, the power of the web!!

YouTube - Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com)

Ive features Salmon before on the blog a year ago:

http://nickhorslen.blogspot.com/search?q=khan

Revolution 2.0: Inside the Egyptian revolution | Video on TED.com

Thanks to the internet and social mobile media "The POWER IN THE PEOPLE is greater than the people in power"!!
Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution Video on TED.com

Introducing the Young Global Leader Class of 2011

Video worth watching, listening and acting upon!
Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog: Introducing the Young Global Leader Class of 2011

Spotify reaches one million PAYING subscribers - Spotify

Freemium in action!!

Spotify reaches one million subscribers - Spotify

As you'll see on the FT it gives them a valuation of $1bn already! They are raising funds on the back of this to go into the US market. Great news for a non US startup in this space!

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/460f5e7c-491d-11e0-af8c-00144feab49a.html#axzz1G0WLDHzd

I listen to their service, for FREE, have done for ages since Pandora.com stopped non US listeners!