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The Next Wave of Social Networking from Google

June 1, 2009

Looking forward to having a play with this new communications platform from Google. Even at beta stage, it’s already massively hyped as the rival to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed and possibly also Webex in the business community.
Put very simply, the platform is a type of live chatroom with a facility to share/amend/display documents to participants in real [...]

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Charitable Baby Dragons Find Their Den at Kiva

May 31, 2009

Here’s an inspiring non-profit business model that I heard about on the latest edition of BBC’s Click.
 

 
Kiva is an innovative charity that is attracting the attention of budding venture capitalists with its innovative peer-to-peer lending model; allowing small lenders to support low income entrepreneurs in developing countries with ‘microloans’.
Lenders visiting the Kiva website can browse [...]