Great article from Erick Shonfeld over at Techcrunch regarding Europe’s answer to Silicon Valley, choice quote:
‘When I asked which region was most likely to emerge as Europe’s Silicon Valley, the answers were all over the map: London, Munich, Berlin, Zurich, Geneva, even Barcelona. The money is in London, cheap office space is in Berlin, the mobile expertise is in Helsinki, the weather’s nice in Barcelona, and the inexpensive engineers are in Estonia (which may not even consider itself part of Europe, but is close enough to manage from Berlin or Amsterdam).
As Europe searches for its Silicon Valley, it may turn up as a state of mind rather than a specific place. The truth is that Europe may not need a single Silicon Valley because business is becoming so distributed. While some Silicon-Valley chauvinists may disagree, the idea of concentrating all the talent and capital in one region seems so last century to many Euro 2.0 entrepreneurs.’
‘Dropclock is an aesthetically intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy helvetica dropping into water in super slow-motion’
I love helvetica, but the thought of overweight helvetica hitting me on the head whilst I’m in the bath frightens me. I am now fearful of heavy helvetica.
Hands where we can see them, this has to be the greatest tech April Fool of them all via Techcrunch:
Twatr.net is trying to keep a low profile but according to the founders it’s basically a Twitter for adults. The site is SFW right now and they’re building out HD video and image streaming/sharing along with some impressive audio features for those who might be afraid to bare it all. The Amsterdam-based company just closed a 2 million euro funding round and could be the next Redtube [NSFW so feel free to do a Google search from the privacy of your boudoir].
The logline is stupendous, ‘what are your privates doing’ and the contact is twatrlord@gmail.com. Geeks with a base sense of humour, who’d have imagined it?
Annie Sprinkles writes in the comments:
‘We just need Twatr and Cockr to merge and then we’ll really have something.’
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