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h4Verizon staff caught snooping/h4 pStaff at Verizon face disciplinary action after accessing
Barack Obama's phone bill and taking a peek at who the president elect had been calling..../p
h4Google Street view cometh/h4 pApple has released a firmware update for the iPhone, giving Jesus
phone devotees access to Google Map’s Street View, keyboard settings and more..../p
A couple
of weeks ago I headed over to Belgium as part of my ongoing TechCrunch Euro Tour,
to get a taste of the local web/mobile entrepreneur community (BTW, come to the London and Helsinki events soon).
I hooked-up with another TechCrunch writer, Robin Wauters, who had kindly arranged a TechCrunch
Belgium meetup in Gent. Gent is quickly becoming one of the main places to startup in that
country, as it’s a short drive from Brussels (which has the main airport and the excellent
Eurostar), but Gent is cheaper, somewhat prettier and is a big university city with lots more
potential talent to draw from. The startups each pitched their wares and here’s what I
found. [Apologies for the delay in posting this, I've been visiting tech
companies in China, of which, more later]. Thanks to Bart Claeys
for the photos, below.
Adhese Control Adhese has come up with a way of tracking the rich media ad campaigns increasingly
littering the Web. It can tell you where your Flash creative is appearing and what people are
doing with it, even if it goes through a network like Doubleclick. It will report impressions and
clicks and interations like numbers of mouse rollovers etc. Interestingly, it will also track
Flex / Air apps. You just add a small line of code to the banner or app. The cost is impression
based. [Crunchbase]
Attentio In May this year Attentio, which develops technology in the social media analytics
(sentiment, topics, & brand profiles), won €1.5Million in backing. Their
showcase blog trend search Trendpedia.com is very interesting - here’s TechCrunch’s
trend graph. Their Attentio Brand Dashboard (SaaS) is sold through advertising and PR
agencies which use it for issue detection, influencer identification, marketing ROI and basically
to understand their word of mouth brand. Their main differentiation is being able to do this
across European languages and sources. The average selling price is Euro 15-25,000 per year. They
have deals now with the likes of Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson and Lexus. It’s an
interesting market - similar trend tracker Umbria was
acquired and TNS bought Cymfony. According to
Gartner the “Social media analysis” industry will be worth $3bn by 2013. But of
course, at the end of the day this is still anapp that has to be sold by humans, rather than
scale virally across the web. [Crunchbase]
Casius.com Casius is a service aimed at home owners who want to find trusted tradesmen, but
they’ve been a long time coming. They raised EUR4m in 2000-2004 but burnt the lot, did an
MBO in 2005 and since then are generating EUR6m per year in revenue from their service in
Belgium. Tradespeople pay to go on the service and are matched to customers, not unline the
UK-based MyBuilder.com. I rather
wonder why it’s taken them so long to really get going and question the strategy of
“getting big in Belgium first,” but the model seems predicated on local salesforces
selling the service into the trade. That doesn’t scale too fast. And I hate their .com home
page. Village People anyone? [Crunchbase]
Gloweme They want to launch an MVNO in Belgium which is basically Blyk but with mobile web
adverts instead of SMS. Blyk, if you recall, offers a very cheap mobile service aimed at the
youth market in return for their opting into targetting advertising offers and campaigns. Gloweme
think it can pull off a virtually free MVNO by allowing users to market the service to their
friends in exhange for credit. Think Multi-Level-Marketing but in mobile. It must be said that
ideas for MVNOs are not normally pitched at events like this, but I guess you’ve got to
start somewhere. Odd place to start though. CEO Frank Bekkers “is an expert in MLM”.
Ah…. [CrunchBase]
Contact
Office Self funded and profitable since 2003 they are a SAAS service for 450k users. It offers a
full-blown suite of products like shared calendaring, contacts, shared bookmark, IMAP client,
pretty much you name it. It has a sophisticated Ajax front end, drag and drop, Java backed end
and was developed for modular integrations. You can manage your data (emails, contacts, meetings,
documents, tasks) in this “virtual office” from anywhere. When I asked what the exit
was for this business, the answer was “a trade sale”. Ultimately this is basically
the opposite of Web 2.0 - lots of apps wrapped up instead of best of breed allowed to flourish as
independent apps. But they clearly have a business with customers and revenues, so you
can’t knock that.[Crunchbase]
IntroNiche Their pitch: The Credit Crunch means you need to do great marketing. You need to
attract customers and retain them. But it seems one company’s giveaway is another
company’s gift. So this is a “B2B Craigslist for offers”. One business has a
giveaway that is another business’s potential offer to get new business. So businesses
trade these items. It sounds like it could work. Maybe. Just as well they are staying in
consulting, while waiting for some kind of critical mass to develop.[Crunchbase]
Mollom Mollom is a web site and protection moderation service which comprises some of the
people who came up with the Drupal content management system, which is impressive. Right now they
are concentrating on developing Spam filtering systems for companies, and they have already
signed up a number of large players like MTV. It’s a hosted service with an open API. They
don’t believe spam classification is binary ( in the same way Akismet does). Although they
use Captcha’s only 4%of visitors have to fill out a captacha. So far they have blocked 30m
spams on 3,000 sites. There is also a further model here which is bubbling up the best content -
because if you can find the worst (spam) you might be able to find the best. It’s a
Freemium model and they are self-funded. I think this has long legs. [Crunchbase]
iStockCV Coming from the premise that most jobs sites suck and don’t appeal to the new
online generation, IStockCV will publish your CV in many languages and allow you to upload a
video CV as well. It’s a social network for CVs aimed at new generation used to doing
things like a Seesmic video. They have also Integrated Tokbox so they can do live meetings.
Promising. [Crunchbase]
KnowledgePlaza This is a Web-based secure
knowledge sharing platform with some social tools. You can share and manage bookmarks, documents
and files, e-mails, contacts, microblogging. Apparently not so much like Huddle or Basecamp
(project management) as “knowledge sharing”. Competitors might be Connect Beam,
which is social bookmarking in the enterprise. Started in January they have a team of 15 and are
backed by EUR500,000. At the moment they have 1,000 users with one big client and can’t say
who it is, although there seemed to be hints that it was a global consulting firm. My stumbling
block with KnowledgePlaza is that they have to sell the service into clients, which would slow
adoption. But each to their own.[Crunchbase]
MyOwnDB They bill this as “Microsoft Access on the Web” or the missing
Microsoft / Google app for databases. Still in demo mode, MyOwnDB is an open source database
application you can download and run on your own server or have your data stored on one of their
servers. Competitors would include Dabble, CouchDB or EditGrid, but the difference is that
it’s open source and you can use it right now. They says CouchDB is too
technical for the average user. And MySQL is a great database, but if you want to share data you
still have to develop a product doing that. They are aiming at the installed base of Microsoft
Access business users. The two guys behind it founded UploadforMe.com.
[Crunchbase]
Happenr With the quintessential Web 2.0 “r” in their domain, these guys are
attempting to build the “largest database of events going on in Europe”. Their point
is simple: Eventbrite have ticketing but no content. Eventful has content but not ticketing.
Happenr combines both and is focused on European events. It will therefore compete with Amiando
in Europe. An iPhone app is on the way and they have seeded the engine with lots of events
organisers. It ended up getting some traction
on TechCrunch. But clearly work is needed on the database if this is to be truly Pan-European. A
search for events
in Birmingham, considered to be the UK’s second city after London, turned up results
listed as being in Edinburgh and some that didn’t mention Birmingham at all. However, I can
see a need for an engine like this - especially one that can track the myriad number tech events
across Europe. (Disclosure: One of our writers, Robin Wauters, is an investor and acting as head
of marketing in his limited spare time). [Crunchbase].
Radionomy Radionomy allows users to set up an online radio station. It features
pre-programmed music shows, libraries, the ability to upload your own music library (apparently
they will be paying licenses for all this music, even the stuff users upload). Aiming for 200,000
stations and EUR63m in revenues - quite a tall order as right now they have about 1,000 stations
and are aiming for 4,000 by the end of this year. This sounds like an attempt to create reach
across a long tail of user generated radio stations and monetise accordingly. Radionomy shares
revenues with their DJs based on audience. It sells 4 mins of advertising per hour compared to
18mins for commercial raido. They wan to create the Long Tail of radio. They have about a million
euros in funding. However they have “20,000 on the waiting list” which rather puzzled
me. If this is Web 2.0, why should there be a “waiting list” at all? [Crunchbase].
Tagger.fm “Tag your favorite music by sending us an sms while you’re listening to
the radio, at a concert or wherever you may be. By collecting these songs they become instantly
available to share with you’re friends, and also give you the opportunity to purchase or to
see upcoming concerts.” On first inspection this appears to be a clone of Shazam, but this is
more like a service aimed at event organisers and radio stations so they can monetize live
events, improve reach and ticket sales and get feedback. Sounds like a good business, but may not
scale that fast in its present incarnation. [Crunchbase]
Tikitag Profiled on GigaOm earlier this year,
this Alcatel-Lucent internal startup is an RFID tag reading system designed to plug into the
growing movement of the “internet of things”. This makes sense - we interact with
3-4,000 objects a day. With around $10 million in corporate funding, tikitag is a set of RFID-
and Near Field Communication-enabled tags and a standards-based reader which uses both the ID of
the tag and the location of the tag reader. Anyone can use it and they are selling the $50
hardware starter kit on Amazon in the US. It will be 24 euros in Europe. A tag could activate
an iTunes song or a poster - you name it. There have been other proprietary attempts like this
but a standards-based approach may win out. With the world seeded with Titkitag’s,
Alcatel-Lucent will sell subscriptions for business users to link their applications with
consumers, thus helping their own equipment business. This is also a “Long tail loyatiy
systems for tiny companies”. All they need now is for consumer to “get
it”… [Crunchbase]
Tunz The Tunz boss decided not to show up for the pitch, but at least his employee did
his best. This is a mobile wallet/payment system. You can pay anyone with a mobile phone number
and receive payments via SMS. Think paypal for mobile. Started in Jan 2007, Tunz will also
integratae loyalty points, has viral distribtuion, and the clients money is always redeemable
through bank wire. Use your iPhone Safari navigator to visit https://m.tunz.com/
to access a version of Tunz.com optimized for your iPhone to access your account history, manage
your alias, and recharge your wallet using your credit card. They only operate in Belgum but in
January next year they want to expand. So far they have 3,500 users using it at places like the
Carrefour supermarkets.[CrunchBase]
Yuntaa They bill themselves as “more than just online file backup”. You can
also synchornise with your PC, share files or edit and save your documents. So far they have
40,000 users with little marketing and just won a Series A funding round. The focus is security
and piracy as against other file storage networks. It’s based on Sun and Oracle platfroms
and also offers a business version for small busineses. Their argument against Silicon Valley
startup Dropbox is that
with Yuntaa you can do that and other things.[Crunchbase]
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drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
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I took some shots of 2.2 in
action. The walking directions would have been great for the past two weeks - I've had so much
trouble using car-based GPS in walking/biking cities. Streetview is also great for cities like New
York but it's very limited right now - there was no information for Paris, for example. The podcast
download is also really nice to have. An impressively end-user-oriented update by Apple this time
around.
h4Brown supports repatriation, in principle/h4 pPrime minister Gordon Brown has spoken about the
Gary McKinnon extradition case for the first time, supporting the principle of repatriation of
sentenced prisoners while declining to get into the specifics of the case, which remains under
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We’ve received two reports tonight of users having their email notification settings on
Facebook deleted. They were notified at login that there was a problem, and told to head over to
the Notifications page to reset them.
At least one user is angry about
it. The other, who sent the screenshot above, was more contemplative. He suggests someone simply
forgot to back up a table before implementing an enhancement. I checked my account, and
it’s fine.
Whatever happened, it’s a small embarrassment. The kind you see with young startups all the
time. And Facebook, despite its massive growth, is still a young startup.
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Natchers cette vidéo en avance rapide de la manip, il faut mettre le notebook à
poil pour accéder au disque, galère…
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much exactly the same shape as an iPod shuffle, presumably so you can clip it to a lapel or bag
strap for convenience while it's in use. It'll push out 150mW of audio power into 16-ohm
headphones, with a USB-rechargable lithium battery that's good for about 20 hours, and it weighs a
mere 26g. There's no release date info yet, though there's an expectation that it's price may be
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encouraged to end his life by a number of other web users./ppMore than 180 people were watching
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unconscious. Only after he stopped moving did some viewers act on what they were seeing by calling
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police and emergency services arrived at the man's house, with footage showing them entering his
bedroom and inspecting the scene before filming stopped abruptly./ppIn a message posted on
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the comments left in response to it were unsympathetic. Reports also suggest that commenters on the
video website itself encouraged him to end his own life./ppIn response to the news, Justin.tv
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alerted to the situation./ppIn a statement on the company's website, chief executive Michael Siebel
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A couple
of weeks ago I headed over to Belgium as part of my ongoing 
Adhese has come up with a way of tracking the rich media ad campaigns increasingly
littering the Web. It can tell you where your Flash creative is appearing and what people are
doing with it, even if it goes through a network like Doubleclick. It will report impressions and
clicks and interations like numbers of mouse rollovers etc. Interestingly, it will also track
Flex / Air apps. You just add a small line of code to the banner or app. The cost is impression
based. 
In May this year Attentio, which develops technology in the social media analytics
(sentiment, topics, & brand profiles), won €1.5Million in backing. Their
showcase blog trend search Trendpedia.com is very interesting - here’s 
Casius is a service aimed at home owners who want to find trusted tradesmen, but
they’ve been a long time coming. They raised EUR4m in 2000-2004 but burnt the lot, did an
MBO in 2005 and since then are generating EUR6m per year in revenue from their service in
Belgium. Tradespeople pay to go on the service and are matched to customers, not unline the
UK-based 
They want to launch an MVNO in Belgium which is basically 
Self funded and profitable since 2003 they are a SAAS service for 450k users. It offers a
full-blown suite of products like shared calendaring, contacts, shared bookmark, IMAP client,
pretty much you name it. It has a sophisticated Ajax front end, drag and drop, Java backed end
and was developed for modular integrations. You can manage your data (emails, contacts, meetings,
documents, tasks) in this “virtual office” from anywhere. When I asked what the exit
was for this business, the answer was “a trade sale”. Ultimately this is basically
the opposite of Web 2.0 - lots of apps wrapped up instead of best of breed allowed to flourish as
independent apps. But they clearly have a business with customers and revenues, so you
can’t knock that.[
Their pitch: The Credit Crunch means you need to do great marketing. You need to
attract customers and retain them. But it seems one company’s giveaway is another
company’s gift. So this is a “B2B Craigslist for offers”. One business has a
giveaway that is another business’s potential offer to get new business. So businesses
trade these items. It sounds like it could work. Maybe. Just as well they are staying in
consulting, while waiting for some kind of critical mass to develop.[
Mollom is a web site and protection moderation service which comprises some of the
people who came up with the Drupal content management system, which is impressive. Right now they
are concentrating on developing Spam filtering systems for companies, and they have already
signed up a number of large players like MTV. It’s a hosted service with an open API. They
don’t believe spam classification is binary ( in the same way Akismet does). Although they
use Captcha’s only 4%of visitors have to fill out a captacha. So far they have blocked 30m
spams on 3,000 sites. There is also a further model here which is bubbling up the best content -
because if you can find the worst (spam) you might be able to find the best. It’s a
Freemium model and they are self-funded. I think this has long legs. [
Coming from the premise that most jobs sites suck and don’t appeal to the new
online generation, IStockCV will publish your CV in many languages and allow you to upload a
video CV as well. It’s a social network for CVs aimed at new generation used to doing
things like a Seesmic video. They have also Integrated Tokbox so they can do live meetings.
Promising. [
This is a Web-based secure
knowledge sharing platform with some social tools. You can share and manage bookmarks, documents
and files, e-mails, contacts, microblogging. Apparently not so much like Huddle or Basecamp
(project management) as “knowledge sharing”. Competitors might be 
They bill this as “Microsoft Access on the Web” or the missing
Microsoft / Google app for databases. Still in demo mode, MyOwnDB is an open source database
application you can download and run on your own server or have your data stored on one of their
servers. Competitors would include Dabble, CouchDB or EditGrid, but the difference is that
it’s open source and you can use it right now. They says 
With the quintessential Web 2.0 “r” in their domain, these guys are
attempting to build the “largest database of events going on in Europe”. Their point
is simple: Eventbrite have ticketing but no content. Eventful has content but not ticketing.
Happenr combines both and is focused on European events. It will therefore compete with Amiando
in Europe. An iPhone app is on the way and they have seeded the engine with lots of events
organisers. It ended up getting some 
Radionomy allows users to set up an online radio station. It features
pre-programmed music shows, libraries, the ability to upload your own music library (apparently
they will be paying licenses for all this music, even the stuff users upload). Aiming for 200,000
stations and EUR63m in revenues - quite a tall order as right now they have about 1,000 stations
and are aiming for 4,000 by the end of this year. This sounds like an attempt to create reach
across a long tail of user generated radio stations and monetise accordingly. Radionomy shares
revenues with their DJs based on audience. It sells 4 mins of advertising per hour compared to
18mins for commercial raido. They wan to create the Long Tail of radio. They have about a million
euros in funding. However they have “20,000 on the waiting list” which rather puzzled
me. If this is Web 2.0, why should there be a “waiting list” at all? [
“Tag your favorite music by sending us an sms while you’re listening to
the radio, at a concert or wherever you may be. By collecting these songs they become instantly
available to share with you’re friends, and also give you the opportunity to purchase or to
see upcoming concerts.” On first inspection this appears to be a clone of 
Profiled on 
The Tunz boss decided not to show up for the pitch, but at least his employee did
his best. This is a mobile wallet/payment system. You can pay anyone with a mobile phone number
and receive payments via SMS. Think paypal for mobile. Started in Jan 2007, Tunz will also
integratae loyalty points, has viral distribtuion, and the clients money is always redeemable
through bank wire. Use your iPhone Safari navigator to visit 
They bill themselves as “more than just online file backup”. You can
also synchornise with your PC, share files or edit and save your documents. So far they have
40,000 users with little marketing and just won a Series A funding round. The focus is security
and piracy as against other file storage networks. It’s based on Sun and Oracle platfroms
and also offers a business version for small busineses. Their argument against Silicon Valley
startup 
et après avoir interroger quelques boutiques, si je le fait faire, cela va me couter
400€ + 1 journée sans Mac… dur dur.
