Rick Power

Dragons’ Den star Theo Paphitis is one of several potential

bidders for Woolworths according to some reports. The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph newspapers claim Theo

Paphitis met with the administrators dealing with Woolworths in London on Friday.

src="http://www.rickpower.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/theo-paphitis.jpg" alt="Theo Paphitis" title="" width="193" height="200"

class="size-medium wp-image-44" />

Theo Paphitis

Known for his investments and straight talking in BBC’s Dragons Den,

Mr Paphitis has found his fortune in several companies, including stationers Ryman and Partners and the La Senza

lingerie chain.

Woolworths’ retail activities went into administration on Wednesday last week, with over 30,000 jobs

being put at risk. If Theo wants to add this brand to his list of businesses, he will have to battle it out as it is thought

that up to 10 other groups or individuals are also interested in a takeover.

RT: @tahera has a good day of football

ahead of her….down the pub..
- Agreed! I am going for a happy red half of manchester by 15:15!

The newly released ‘Twitterlights‘ allows users to

highlight internet snippets of text and twitter them. This free application is a quick way of

tweeting something you have come across on the internet, sharing it quickly with your followers. Using software

called i-Lighter, users can connect web content with twitter!

src="http://www.rickpower.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/twitterlights.bmp" alt="Twitterlights" class="alignnone size-medium

wp-image-40" />

It’s this easy:
Click ‘Start i-Lighting’
If you find something you want to send

to your Twitter followers send it through i-Lighter
On any web page you are reading, Right Click and click Twitter This!
Type

in your 140 character twitter message
The URL of the web page will automatically be sent as a TinyURL

Enter your Twitter

ID and password
Hit send and you’re done!

The plummet in house prices slowed down in November with

prices falling by just 0.4%. This according to the Nationwide, the UK’s largest building society. Depite this, house

prices are still 13.9% lower than this time last year.

src="http://www.rickpower.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/forsale.jpg" alt="House Price Drop Slows" title="" width="200" height="118"

class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-32" />

£158,442.

Check out this awesome video produced for staff

marketing purposes (marketing the company to the staff).

The ordinary calendar month of September was transformed

into “Superhero September” and this internal staff motivational video was produced.

Just had a coding masterclass from coding god @NathanRidley!

Just used the new Traffic Android feature – WOW – 15 second bookmarking..

speechless!

Google recently launched ‘SearchWiki‘ which

allows users logged in to their Google account to mark up Google search results. This new system allows uers to re-rank, delete and

add comments to search results. Although these changes you make will only affect you, it is a brilliant way of

sharing your insight with other searchers.

Below is Google’s lead engineer, Amay, demonstrating some ways to

use SearchWiki.

After legal proceedings that lasted four months, Judge Jeremy Fogel awarded

Facebook $873 million in damages against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital. This individual

had been sending spam messages to Facebook users.

This result is a message to anyone trying to do the same as

Guerbuez. Facebook promise to keep on investing in their forces against spammers, improving technically to keep their

users happy and spam free.

An iPhone television advert has been banned by the advertising

watchdog for exaggerating the phone’s speed. The ad actually showed internet pages loading in seconds with the

3G model of the phone.

Only 17 people complained that this advert mislead them, however it seems like the

advertising standards watchdog agreed with them.

class="size-medium wp-image-16 aligncenter" title="iphone" src="http://www.rickpower.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/iphone.jpg"

alt="" width="150" height="104" />

Apple claim they wanted to put the message across to viewers that

the latest 3G model was much faster than the previous.