The people that brought you HubDub, the prediction site that effectively turns news content into a game, have had a new idea. FanDuel is a premium, paid-for game focused on fantasy sports. Running in private beta for the last month, the game opens up today. The site is totally focused on U.S. sports (baseball, NFL). [...] Hubdub Hubdub.com is a platform and community that combines the value of user-generated news aggregation with passionate prediction markets. Unlike Digg or Reddit, Hubdub.com tracks only the stories that people decide are worth creating a market around. Full story...
[UK] London-based Fingertips.net lets users create their own personalised online newspaper "from the publications they want".
This is our third guest post written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I'm allowing them to post anonymously.
I am very pleased to announce that all our efforts in creating a tech scene in Rome and more generally in Italy are coming through.
Bringing you the latest in cleantech, we look today to Denmark, where in less than three weeks the United Nations Climate Change Conference aka “Hopenhagen” will start.
It would have been a surprise, but there’s none. France has qualified for the FIFA 2010 World Cup, that’s all there is to it.
Every Friday we will feature an Investment and aim to break it down as closely as we can so our audience will get an idea of where the money comes from.
We just created our profile in dotopen.com, a database/social network of companies, organization, ngo's, networking companies, start-ups related with mobility and communications.
Last night a hundred of Stockholm’s brightest and best in mobile services got together to talk about future challenges, opportunities, hopes, dreams, and tearing down the old order to build it again.
I thought I’d try an iPadio phonecast live from a NESTA debate on social media:
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Tietoset is a fascinating Finnish company, some 4 years old, building a SaaS-based service where industrial buyers are able to do better sourcing from the manufacturing field.