{"id":527,"date":"2006-03-02T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=527"},"modified":"2006-03-02T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T17:17:07","slug":"who-would-michael-arrington-visit-in-london-more-on-irish-and-british-software-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/who-would-michael-arrington-visit-in-london-more-on-irish-and-british-software-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Who would Michael Arrington visit in London? More on Irish and British software innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the spirit of not whining<\/A>, and of trying to get things done, and because some people have complained I was too hard on the lack of a British innovation culture – great at design, great at music, but poor at building businesses – I decided to ask – what would be the essential British web 2.0 startups?<\/DIV>
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What made me think of it was this<\/A> from Michael Arrington, of TechCrunch<\/A>.<\/DIV>
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Michael just visited Tel Aviv and came up with some interesting Israeli startup action. <\/DIV>
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Israel, with its close linkages to the US, and culture of intellectual property research and investment, with business savvy, has already spawned any number of interesting enterprise technology companies, notably in the security space.<\/DIV>
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Its like this though- if you’re a British firm doing good things then of course you should be contacting people like me – I have a readership and customer base and I like to write about cool things. I also believe there is no shortage of creativity, or marketing savvy, in our little corner of the North Sea. We just seem to be a bit crap at creating companies… and Web 2.0 is no exception.<\/DIV>
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I am going to keep a list, so if Michael does come to London he knows who to call. <\/DIV>
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As so often is the case though it seems the Irish are way ahead of me\/us. Who knew that TechCrunch was going to be franchised? Apparently the Irish Web 2.0 scene is developing nicely<\/A>, EirePreneurs indeed. Or how about Web 2.0 Ireland<\/A>.. (100% Irish- Stephen would surely approve.)<\/DIV>
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Check out Sxoop Technologies<\/A> – which has a very neat online photo effects service, PXN8<\/A>, with a nice upload to flickr function and other Web 2.0 goodness. They even have a business model… \ud83d\ude09 It will be interesting to see if the Tablane<\/A> browser gets any traction. I am a Firefox man myself.<\/DIV>
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What would a top ten list of UK Web startups look like? <\/DIV>
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I would stick DropSend<\/A> from CarsonSystems<\/A> on the list for starters, now I know the firm is British… cheers Ryan<\/A> (hat tip to Ian Fenn<\/A> for letting me know that Carson the company is UK-based).<\/DIV>
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Mydeo<\/A> can go on there too because it was smart enough to take the UK government’s money… although I am not sure I would want to compete with Google Video. (thx Deirdre for the link). <\/DIV>
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I will keep an eye out for more when I check out Beers and Innovation<\/A>.<\/DIV>
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If you know of cool Web 2.0 ish startups in the UK please let me know.<\/DIV>
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