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20 April 2007

My Dots for Thursday, April 19, 2007

Zude is the easiest and most powerful way to express yourself on the web. It is both an enhancement to the myspace's of the world as well as the next generation and ultimate evolution of web interaction -- and so much more.

Coming May 1st, 2007 to a Browser Near You!

[tags: startpage, yourpage, sharing]

Quoted: The BBC is to open up its archive of video and audio in an on-demand trial involving more than 20,000 people.

[tags: tv, video, audio, BBC]

What about Iraq?

April 17: No one questions a nation's grief about Virginia Tech, but have we suppressed our grief about Iraq? Newsweek's Richard Wolffe discusses.

[tags: News, video, countdown]

Quoted: UK engineers say that tiny, "smart" devices that can be carried on the wind like dust particles could be used to explore space.

[tags: space, sensors, future]

Any industry making a huge profit margin off its customers is a good candidate for disruption. Banking is a classic case -- just think of the 19 percent interest you pay on credit cards and the 2 percent you earn on your savings account.

Zopa is closing that gap by using the Web to allow personal lending on a massive scale. The startup was the first company to introduce peer-to-peer lending in the United Kingdom 18 months ago and is about to launch in America. "What Skype did to telecoms, this could do to banks," says David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners, which contributed some of the $31 million in funding the startup has attracted to date.

On Monday, U.K.-based Zopa, an online loan marketplace that unites lenders and borrowers without a bank in the middle, announced a $12.9-million third round investment led by Bessemer Venture Partners to fund a U.S. launch.

Quoted: Zude is the mashup of all mashups. It allows you to create websites with incredible ease that hasn’t been seen before. This is thanks to their technology that allows you to drag and drop basically any content from any site right onto the page you’re creating. Content includes pictures, videos, widgets, and just about anything else you’d

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