5 reasons: All events should have #TAGS [kwiqq]

#Tags play an important role in identifying social media content in the enormous and ever expanding World Wide Web. The number of times it has come in handy to research notes, pictures, videos from sites like slideshare, youtube, flickr etc should convince any event organiser the benefits of using them. Although many organisers either don’t [...]

4 things you didn’t know about Twitter ! [kwiqq]

Twitter is going more mainstream on a daily basis with celebrities adopting it left, right and centre. Last night news broke out that Russell Brand (rustyrockets) is on Twitter. Today morning he had over 5000 followers and now 7000+ followers. Tweeters were shocked to see how quickly he was getting traffic: Soonish, Twitter will become [...]

Dragon’s Den stars don’t text but TWITTER!

What do you Visualise when you hear these names: (Dragon’s Den) Theo Paphitis or Duncan Bannatyne I think about ‘my children’s inheritance’ and a Scottish bloke asking people “To check your numbers again”. My perception of them has totally changed, from hard-nosed investors to web savvy Internet Marketers using Twitter. And hang on this is [...]

Announcement: Winner of Global Entrepreneurship Week (Social Networking Challenge) [kwiqq]

It has been exciting to judge a competition, truly global with entries from 4 continents. With more applicant than we could have ever imagined and just one winner it was seriously a challenging job. The competition allows entrepreneurs to get a jump start by working with Kwiqq on the development of the site and business [...]

Video Sharing website’s success relies on its API [kwiqq]

Image via Wikipedia Recently we conducted a research on the 15 top video API’s (Application Programming Interface). some interesting facts came out of the research: Most video APIs (actually all) allow users to embed videos in some form or another. Generally by copying a bit of HTML. (Second) most common use of the APIs is [...]

(15 tips) Search Engine Optimisation for Social Networks [kwiqq]

Image by DrewVigal via FlickrLike any content managed site social networks and community sites can be optimised to be well ranked on search engines. By the shear volume of content on social networks they are well ranked and can boost external site’s page rank (Measurement of the authority of page on the world wide web, [...]

Our (Kwiqq) experience of Web Mission [kwiqq]

Web Mission is a unique scheme which allows British companies to visit San Francisco to meet with investors and buzz makers in the Valley. Last year, Kwiqq was announced as one of the Web Mission 08 companies. We were obviously thrilled to go Tech Mecca. Jack Fairhall represented Kwiqq at Web Mission. I heard a [...]

7 reasons for using project management tools [kwiqq]

Image by Geodog via Flickr Several startups and many established companies consider email as the most effective way to manage a project. Whilst no can disagree with the importance of emails in project managing , it is certainly worth looking at project management tools closely. There are several project management tools in the market : [...]

London Networking and learning opportunities in Jan [kwiqq]

Image via Wikipedia Three must go events in London this January: 1). Horrified about the impact of credit and failure of the banking system on your startup ? Perhaps it is time for you to visit NESTA’s latest event: webank will be an opportunity to meet the companies pioneering in this area, explore their business [...]

Research paper: Developing a typology of youth-led innovation

Recently I was approached by Sussex University research department to briefly contribute to NESTA funded research paper on ‘Youth-led Innovation’. It is currently in its draft phase and available on NESTA’s Website. I find the outcome (diagram) from the research paper absolutely fascinating: Download it: Developing a typology of youth-led innovation (PDF) Related articles by [...]