The Fubra Blog
Hit President Bush with your shoes! Do it!
That was the instruction from entrepreneur Alex Tew in his latest online venture SockandAwe.com – a highly addictive game which allows you to thow virtual shoes at Mr Bush just like the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at the US president. At the time of writing, more than 40 million shoes had been thown. Great success!
Since the game was launched on Monday we’ve been addicted to the satisfying ‘thwack’ of size 10’s hitting Mr Bush’s face at Fubra HQ, so much so that we bought the site! As of the end of a 24 hour eBay listing we are now the proud owners of SockandAwe.com.
Clearbooks online accounting service
Today I’m proud to announce the beta launch of a new online accounting software that we have invested in, called Clear Books.
Clear Books Limited has been formed as a 50/50 joint venture company between Fubra Limited and Tim Fouracre. Tim has been a friend of mine since we both studied our A-Levels together at Farnborough Sixth Form College from 1998 – 2000. He went to University to study maths while I was starting Fubra with Brendan. When he graduated in 2003, he came to work for us for a year before leaving to train to become an accountant with KPMG. He also ran a small business in his spare time building a network of websites including an accountants directory.