The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

Found on Peter Brown's Ajax Blog : immedi.at helps you to keep track of online information as it changes. It sends you an instant message whenever any RSS or Atom feed you want to monitor changes. Don't use this for your whole OPML file, or an IM will pop up on your screen every few seconds. A good way to keep an eye on selected feeds that are most important to you though!

Startup 100

Startup 100

The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

eHub did a nice interview with Paul Youlten, the founder of a great project called Yellowikis. Yellowikis, as Paul put it, is "the 10 month old love-child of Yellow Pages and Wikipedia". Putting the Yellow Pages online has been tried before but I don't know if any of those projects really took off. Yellowikis' new approach makes this new attempt really promising.

Government 100

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The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2005

Here's a quick test, taken from real-life here in Germany: One political party wants to increase the VAT from 16% to 18%. Another party wants to keep it where it is. These two parties form a governing coalition. Question: Where do they meet? If you guessed 17%, you're wrong. Right answer: 19%.

Government 100

Government 100

The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2005

Om Malik just coined the acronym GYM for Google, Yahoo and Microsoft (at least I read it at his blog first) and asks if you manage to not mention the GYM for a week. I think it'll be difficult. Given the resources, distribution and yes, innovative power and speed of the Big 3, the key question for most Web 2.0 startups is how they manage to compete with the GYM.

Innovation 100

Innovation Startup Management 100

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