Dawinderpal Sahota, Computing, Tuesday 13 July 2010 at 18:03:00
The Difference Engine project offers intensive mentoring and �20,000 in
return for an eight per cent share in the company
A project to help UK start-up technology businesses to find their feet and The Difference Engine is a business incubator for technology businesses, The programme is being funded and supported by a variety of organisations The new round is open to applications until 23 July 2010 and applications Among the current candidates are: CANDDI which Curated By Geogoer Recite Wishlist
become successful is accepting new applications.
offering an intensive mentoring programme in the North East over 13 weeks and
giving each participant �20,000 in return for an eight per cent share in the
company.
including One North East, Middlesborough and Sunderland City Councils. The
programme?s mentors hail from a variety of backgrounds and include serial
entrepreneurs, technology experts and professionals such as lawyers, marketing
specialists, accountants and venture capitalists.
should be made via the
Difference
Engine web site.
helps companies to convert more web site visitors into customers, increasing
marketing ROI and ultimately profit by tracking real individuals over multiple
visits and across every one of a company?s online presences, from email to
social media, to create a complete picture of their behaviour.
is the first dedicated curation platform for the real-time web. Curators are
given the tools to create handpicked streams of updated, tagged and categorised
content. Similar to Wikipedia, users sort the best content into bundles of
information to be shared and consumed by other people.
Cutefund
is a crowd-sourced mutual fund and platform for investors. As a mutual fund,
CuteFund buys and sells stocks; the difference is that CuteFund does not have a
fund manager: investors vote for stocks and votes are weighted and averaged so
it buys the best stocks and sells the worst.
is an open transport platform where anyone can find passengers, cars and public
transport, or publish their own journeys. It supports different modes of
transport, such as cars, coaches, trains and even ?flying carpets?.
allows any web site to become more accessible to people who are dyslexic,
visually impaired or who have a young reading age, by intercepting the web page
online, instantly adding accessibility techniques such as voice, high-contrast
text and simpler word options and outputting it for any user to read.
Rock
Control encourages the global public to launch and manage a band from
scratch, from picking who they want in the final line-up to deciding the look
and feel of the band and choosing which media opportunities they want to take.
ScreenReach
provides real-time delivery of media content to a mobile phone or any smart
device via any digital display, be it TV, outdoor advertising or a PC.
Tagorize:
The Tagorize system claims to describe online information so accurately that it
can provide a level of search relevancy that is intrinsically more valuable and
accurate than existing systems.
is a Facebook application that helps people give gifts. Users create a list of
the people for whom they buy presents and invite them to create wishlists. Then
they receive email reminders before birthdays and buy them things they want.
Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2266413/programme-aims-assist-uk
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