DISQUS

Obviously tweetdeck but really like Particls Fountain. I use inside of GTalk as an xmpp realtime client to track people and topics. Also like zensify on my iPhone. Killer feature being the friends topic tag cloud. Last is a new service skinlinks. Which will enable amortization of tinyurl links.

I saw this list this morning thanks to Alan Patrick. (@freecloud) Journalists by their very nature are followers not leaders and they report on the value created by other people like:

Simon Willison
Ian Forrester
Nick Halstead
Andy Mitchell
Alan Patrick
Umair Haque
Gary Reid
Pat Phelan
Connor ONeill
Matt Biddulph
James Governor
Ben Werdmuller
Andy McLoughlin
Daniel Applequist
Jeremy Keith
Steve Moore
Judith Clegg
Oliver Barrett
Simon Grice
Deidre Malloy
Robert Loch
Amanda Rose
Stewart Townsend
Helen Keegan
Sam Michel
Ian Delany
Paul Walsh

These are the people in the UK who are creating value with new technologies or events.

This list is not exhaustive but off the top of my head. I would not add any VC's to this list.

Just check the advisory board list who helped compile this report and then check the company names again. For the sake of transparency it would be nice to see this list again with the names of the VC's who have funded those companies. I wonder how close the two lists would be?

Great complimentary post by Marc Canter. http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/04/how-...

Robert give that Google is threatening both Microsoft (Google Apps) and Nokia (Android)it is not too surprising.

And I am sure that Flash support was announced in the SDK.

The bigger worries is in the past when MSFT dominant its competitors often tried to form alliances to prevent it gaining market share and it didn't work.

If MSFT buy Yahoo partner with Nokia and even manage to announce a new Office online will people stop using Google for search and advertising. I don't think so. Companies have life cycles and it feels like MSFT is start in their done cycle and making its last big noise plays.

Paul one way to improve the broadband and 3G coverage is to work with O2.ie on their deployment of femtocell routers. This will mean that cables/fixed wire will not be needed to offer 7mb downstream. See this press release here. http://www.02.com/media/latest_pr_14135.asp

Also read the ubiquisys about us in the release to see that Google are one of the companies behind Ubiqusys. It is therefore no surprise that Google Android will utilise this technology.

Also checkout this router from Netgear http://www.netgear.com/About/PressReleases/en-U...
http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGatew...

There is alot more I could add but I am sure you are aware of most of this and with your contacts in O2 this might be a good thing for your new Industry Association to get behind?

Finally my thoughts are with Damian.

Robert you are making some great video content but it is all over the place now. Have a look at www.intruders.tv homepage and how they have used blinkx to create a wall of video.