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Digital design consultancy Splendid is creating a new Facebook-style social networking site for entrepreneurs, due to go live this autumn.

Owned by Brightstation Ventures, business support website Smarta will put those wanting to start or grow a business in touch with other entrepreneurs. Dyson director Richard Needham sits on Smarta’s board.

‘A website like Linked In has a very professional edge to it, but there is room for a more inclusive business support and networking website with no gender bias,’ says design group Splendid’s managing director Paul Bishop.

Brighstation appointed Splendid to create Smarta 18 months ago without a pitch, having worked with the consultancy for the past two years on three other websites.

Bishop claims Splendid was recommended to Brighstation following the consultancy’s work on websites for former Emap-owned magazines New Woman and Heat.

Brightstation has secured funding for Smarta from Vodafone and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Splendid created a holding microsite for the venture that went live in December and can be viewed at www.smarta.com.
Article from Design Week – www.designweek.co.uk/Articles

Hopefully you will have noticed a section on our homepage called, “stuff we like…” One of the links in this section is www.simpsonizeme.com
We thought it was only fair to show you how good this site actually is, so we decided to Simponsize ourselves. You can see the results below.

At the very least it’s a good giggle. We found ourselves repeating the process several times. So why not have a go yourself and if you feel like sending us a link we’ll be happy to give you our opinion. We showed you ours…

Have you noticed the increasing amount of 0870 numbers that are popping up?

Most of us will have committed to a phone contract that includes an allocation of free minutes to other mobiles or landlines. What we find really annoying is that these so called Premium or Lo-call numbers are excluded from any inclusive minutes that you may have. So more often that not, you end up with a bill at the end of the month for more than you expected. Not only are you charged an extra rate, but the company you are calling makes money from your call. This is especially annoying when waiting in a queuing system or when you are on hold.

Well, there is a solution. saynoto0870.com gives you the opportunity to enter the 0870 number and will than provide you with an alternative number (i.e. those beginning with 01 or 02) which will bring you straight through to the same number.

The search can extend to 0844, 0845 and 0871 numbers, giving you the opportunity to save
more money.

We would like to point out that it’s not always successful (or very well presented), but more often than not, it will provide an alternative number giving you a sense of enormous well-being!!