How cool is this? Congratulations to Thomas Whitfield for winning Oxford Entrepreneur‘s Idea Idol 2007! I think the idea is brilliant (quoting Thomas):

“It’s basically a website where, for $1 a minute, people can buy moments in time and can display special moments of their lives for eternity, like their first kiss or the moment they won Idea Idol. It came about from just sitting around and brainstorming but we never thought something like this would happen.”

Well done to Rajeeb as well for generating some buzz around the event, the story was reported on CNN (though I can’t find the original link). I’m happy that the original vision for a Varsity finale to Idea Idol is also going to be realised!

In different news, there is talk that Index Ventures might set up a Y Combinator style incubator in the UK (it’s right at the end):

“This summer we will aim to bring together some of Europe’s best entrepreneurs and investors to start supporting and seeding talented developers who have ideas that they think they can turn into world beating businesses.”

It will be good if it happens.