I had breakfast the other day with Steve Clayton in Home House (very posh private members club), ‘geek in disguise’ by day and CTO, Microsoft UK Partner Group by night. Or is it the other way around?! Very cool guy who gets the power of networking and connecting Microsoft partners (and others) for mutual benefit.

Steve and I met for a friendly chit chat about potential collaboration on numerous fronts. I can only mention one at present though. I showed him our Firefox extension that alters Google search results, enabling trust on the Web that’s truly scalable. That is, unlike VeriSign’s identity solution to combat phishing, McAfee SiteAdviser, Netscape and of course, GeoTrust’s equally non-scalable attempt with Trustwatch.

I don’t mind taking a pop at those companies because they’re pretty big and have been hogging the cake for too long. It’s now time to share. I was going to take the opportunity to expand on what Content Labels are but it ended up too long and way off topic, so I’ll post another note about labels shortly and try to use a different approach with my explanation and use cases.

I had every intention of heading home following my stint at Home House, but when I received Mike Butcher’s twitter (feel free to follow my twitter) regarding Internet People I decided to head over for a short while. I’m delighted I did as I ended up bumping into Jemima Kiss from the Guardian and Jeanette Moskovits, Co-founder and CEO of Autoquake. It’s funny to think that I had to travel to Le Web 3.0 in Paris last year and have dinner with Marc Canter (thanks to Tom Raftery) in order to meet Jeannette for the first time, especially given that she’s based in London! It’s a small world.

It was also good (as usual) to bump into Paul Birch, Cominded Founder, Bebo Co-founder and Justin Champney, Head of Brand Innovation EMEA, McCann Worldwide. Justin has agreed to be a guest writer on my BIMA blog, which has yet to get off the ground properly. Must attend to this! Justin, get your ass in gear

I did meet a new face, Prashant Agarwal from Refresh Mobile and who’s helping Heather Harde, TechCrunch CEO, to find someone to re-launch TechCrunch UK. So, I wonder when that’ll go ahead…

Thanks to Butcher, the rumor had it that I was going to run TechCrunch UK. A day after he blogged it as a joke, ironically word spread and lead to at least 6 people asking me if it were true at a mashup event the following night, including 2 VCs.

So, may I start the rumor now and suggest that Mike Butcher is going to re-launch TechCrunch UK and is in fact, having an affair with Mike Arrington, who he’s had his eye on since Sam Sethi dumped him for a younger model.

I’m probably going to pay a price for this banter, aren’t I Mike (Butcher)? Ah well, at least I got a giggle out of writing this on what would have otherwise been a very boring train journey into London.