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• 16Feb

  Mint Clone Kublax Deadpools After Funding Failure

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  The race to create the Mint.com for the UK has claimed its first victim. Kublax, a Seedcamp 2007 winner which launched in August 2008, has now gone into administration, saying it was unable to secure a further funding round. The news has come as a surprise to most – Kublax was an early player in a potentially huge market.

  In an email to the customers of its beta site, founders Sridhar Sethuraman and CEO Tom Symonds wrote: “Over the course of the last 6 months we have been trying hard to raise funding which would have allowed us to launch our enhanced new product and develop our offering further. Unfortunately we now have to admit defeat.”

  

  
  

  

  

• 16Feb

  Annoyed With Buzz In Your Gmail? Add Facebook Too!

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  Like me, you’re probably going a little insane with all the Google Buzz noise in your Gmail inbox. Never fear, we’ve got a solution: Add a lot more noise to your inbox by adding your Facebook News Feed, too.

  David Mulder has created a Google Chrome extension that adds Facebook into the left sidebar of Gmail, right under Google Buzz. Install the extension, sign in via Facebook Connect, and voila, you’ve got your Facebook News Feed right there with your Gmail inbox and Google Buzz. The extension doesn’t fold the Facebook stuff into your inbox like Buzz. But, frankly, it’s a lot better that way.

  I had some problems getting it to work properly on Chrome for Mac, but after a few restarts of the browser everything settled down and it works fine. You can also post status updates directly to Facebook via the extension as well.

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• 16Feb

  Sony Ericsson Drunk On ‘UGC’ After Everyone Else Has Moved On

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  Can good old fashioned User-Generated Content help shift handsets? Sony Ericsson apparently thinks so.

  The handset maker has announced a new web service called Creations, its “vision for the future of mobile entertainment”, based on something the company is calling ‘co-creation’.

  Basically, it’s a content sharing site – sorry, a “movement” (I kid you not, this is their word) – in which users can upload, “remix” and publish content to and from their mobile phones and the desktop, all distributed under a Creative Commons license.

  It’s an idea that might have seemed credible a few years ago but in 2010 it appears as if Sony Ericsson has got a little too drunk on the web 2.0 cool aid after just about everybody else has left the party. Either that or the company’s leadership have turned to the scriptures of Lawrence Lessig in the hope of clawing back marketshare.

  

  
  

  

  

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