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Travel site nets £5.7m from VCs

Fast growing social travel site WAYN has raised £5.7m in a funding round led by Esprit Capital Partners.

The move has also seen co-founder of Lastminute.com Brent Hoberman, one of the investors, becoming the site's non-executive chairman.

by Graham Charlton 29 November 2006 11:02am 0 comments

Zoomf teams up with TrustedPlaces for user reviews

New property search engine Zoomf has linked up with community review site TrustedPlaces to offer local information alongside its property listings.

TrustedPlaces’s reviews of local cafes, bars and restaurants will be used by Zoomf to provide background information to property hunters.

by Graham Charlton 29 November 2006 10:30am 0 comments

Google shuts social search service

Google has announced it is shelving its social search tool Google Answers in a statement posted on its official blog.

The statement says users won’t be able to pose questions from later this week, and that Google will stop accepting answers by the end of the year.

by Richard Maven 29 November 2006 10:19am 1 comment

Internet people partying in London, next week

Seasonal beers are on the horizon at next Wednesday's Lemon Studios / E-consultancy party, taking place in Central London.

Fancy coming along? You can register here (and you can invite your colleagues and friends to register too).

PAAAARTTTTTAAAAY!

At the time of writing almost 500 people have signed up to attend, and with three days until the registration deadline you should too....

by Chris Lake 28 November 2006 16:41pm 0 comments

Interview with the producers of BBC Backstage

Ian Forrester and Matthew Cashmore of BBC Backstage, the Beeb's developer network, talked to us about the challenges and opportunities of opening up your data to third parties.

by Richard Maven 28 November 2006 13:57pm 2 comments

Digg uses moderators as users fail to police

Philip Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped has an interesting / outrageous article about Digg’s use of moderators – it seems that Digg has them, but is rather coy about admitting it.

Contrary to the approach favoured by Jason Calcanis at Netscape, Digg has always prided itself on being entirely user-driven, claiming that everything on the site is submitted and managed by the community.

Yet this is not remotely accurate...

by Graham Charlton 28 November 2006 12:32pm 0 comments

Spam volumes rise 59% since September

According to new figures, the number of ‘spam’ messages has tripled since June and now accounts for as many as nine out of ten emails sent worldwide.

Despite efforts by government officials and computer firms to crack down on spam, spammers are sending out more junk email than ever, finding new ways to get past filters and other security measures.

by Graham Charlton 28 November 2006 12:10pm 0 comments

Google's Matt Cutts' tips on SEO

Google software engineer Matt Cutts has summed up a site review session he did at the recent PubCon in Las Vegas.

In reviewing a few sites, he gives some insight into what site mistakes a webmaster should avoid, and gives some tips on improving a site’s search engine visibility.

by Graham Charlton 28 November 2006 12:08pm 0 comments

Path to better customer engagement must come from top

We've just published a Customer Engagement Report based on a survey of more than 800 companies and agencies.

The research, sponsored by cScape, covers a lot of ground (it's a huge topic and you can see some highlights below) but a key section I want to flag up is around the challenges faced by companies who want to give the best possible customer experience.

by Linus Gregoriadis 27 November 2006 17:48pm 1 comment