Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Category: Products

Helping to get millions of women pregnant…

Last night I went to the celebrations of Cambridge Temperature Concepts winning 6000 pounds in the National Business Plan competition.

Shamus and team were in fine form especially since its looking that there first investment round will reach the 250,000+. Alas, without my cash as I missed the deadline, by partying, last night 🙁 and now I’m at the airport.

With the money they hope to get their DuoFertility product to market and profitability. If they as succesful as they are at winning business competitions and organising parties then the first round of investors stand to make some money!

Images of the world..

Another very interesting idea from David Troy the creator of Twittervision,. This time it takes the latest photographs posted to Flickr and superimposes them on a rotating globe. and called Flickrvision

Click on the image snapshot below to get live postings.

Flickrvision photos around the world

Would make a good display in a cafe/restaurant I think

Many thanks to Lifehacker for the link

Blog Spam

I have been just looking at some of SallyinNorfolk‘s spam statistics. SpamKarma has achieved the following in the past 6months:-

  • Total Spam Caught: 47857 (average karma: -12846.66)
  • Total Comments Approved: 626 (average karma: 472.75)
  • Total Comments Moderated: 56

She is now the target of scrapers who are ripping her content.In the two days she has had WP-ban in place. The following addresses have been caught:-

74.50.109.2     Has tried 10 times.
66.225.211.142   Once
65.98.35.234 Once
72.52.219.182 Once
68.228.217.69 Once

Interestingly I don’t get hit as much , Sally thinks that spammers are targeting subjects such as food and exercise.

Thank goodness for all the good folks writing wordpress plugins.

Facebook penetration

Thursday Clubs post on Facebook Statistics is excellent, showing the total number of Facebook users at 42,966,780 people or 0.6% of the worlds population.  I took his top 10 countries and made a table with the respective country populations (taken from Wikipedia).

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As you can see we in in the UK are in bronze position with Canada taking the gold and Norway silver. The USA where Facebook originated is way down at sixth position.

An impressive achievement since Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook in February 2004 and only purchased the facebook.com address in August 2005 .