If you charge out your time, and are familiar with super simple social media tools like twitter, then you’ve just found the fastest and most easiest way to turn your time into money.

Here are 2 Big things Minutedock does to hit the bottom line and increase profitability and ability to scale for billable hour and services businesses.

Micro-bill lots of clients in Parallel

Because you can quickly log every piece of work you do in MinuteDock, it’s much easier to allocate and bill for small amounts of our time over many clients, enabling you to support more clients in parallel. And with no overhead, you can now knock out a dozen 15 or 30 minute jobs, and make them profitable! Key when you’re in the services game.

Customers know EXACTLY what they’re paying for

With Minute Dock, there’s no scurrying to pull together invoices for clients or having to tally up and detail whats been done at the end of a month. Instead you’ve got a simple clean audit trail so you and your clients can see exactly what chunks of value you’ve delivered – Chunks of value = cash. Also great if you’re managing a team and want everyone working on things that can be billed everyday.

The Crew Behind MinuteDock

MinuteDock has been designed, developed and is backed and supported by some pretty smart cats Nik Wakelin & Oliver Clarke from Code to Customer and James Nisbet from Bandit Design and a partner of mine in Challenge for Change.

Multi-company goodness

While I’m writing a quick note on Xero, here’s my current experience – I’m involved in half a dozen businesses right now with various shareholders and customer relationships here and in the UK, and just loving having them all humming on Xero and PlanHQ. With recurring invoices setup between the businesses for inter-company transactions passed straight though the Xero Network into the Accounts Payable of each businesses accounts means accounts admin is down and transparency on our base cashflow forecast is rocking.

There’s a lot to be said about a personal Jetpack and Glenn Martin’s 20 year story to get here, but really you just want to see this sucker fly, so join 55,000 others who’ve tuned in the last 5 days and see for yourself, Nice work Glenn Martin and team, and Thanks to Martin Aircraft backer Jenny Morel from No8 Ventures for the tipoff this morning.

Playing in the backyard

Glenn Martin talks the crowd through a controlled take-off at airshow

Techcrunch - Smallword a virtual environment that takes web 2.0 3D
Mashable – SmallWorld
GigaOm -  Small Worlds goes web 2.0
Massively - Smallworlds announces public beta
Virtual World News - Smallworlds

To give them some digg love go here:
http://digg.com/tech_news/SmallWorlds_Web2_0_meets_Web3_D

The Celsias Crew

Some of the crew in behind Celsias include co-founder and CEO Nick Lewis, who’s an ex-wallstreet banker who migrated with his family to NZ a few years ago, Nick Gerritsen of who’s a founder, adviser or investor in several new sustainability ventures such as Aqua Flow who are harnessing algae of sewerage ponds as bio-fuel, and Derek Elley and Dave Ten Have of Ponoko are investor directors along side ex Christchurch mayor Vicky Buck. These guys put together with a growing team of authors around the world lead by king writer Craig MacKintosh show signs of a cool and useful web asset around sustainability based out of New Zealand. I’ve traveled the US with Nick Gerritsen on a capital raising trip for Energy Intellect back in 2002 where we met Nick Lewis who firm became our investment bankers.

Growing the NZ position in Silicon Valley

There’s going to be a lot more connectivity with the US going on in New Zealands online space this year. Sales will flow, capital will be raised, partnerships established, we will weave ourselves into the fabric of Silicon Valley.

Local Wellington company SilverStripe has in the few months from launch, shot up to be a finalist in these awards; a fantastic demonstration of credibility as voiced by the general public. So if you have 30 seconds to spare and agree the product is pretty cool, then give SilverStripe your vote, which helps secure a prize of financial and PR gain!

• The video: PlanHQ DEMO in 6 minutes on stage in San Diego.
• Photos: of PlanHQ working it @ DEMO