Stephen Morrell co-founded Agriflow in March 2000. His goal there has been to deliver online trading forums and collaborative solutions to the European agricultural commodities industry. Agriflow has gained 165 client companies and 400 registered users since going live in November last year, a significant market share in a concentrated industry.

Prior to Agriflow, he worked as a project manager at investment banks in London, chiefly Credit Suisse First Boston. He remains an outdoors-loving South African and returns home regularly to replenish his melanin levels. Mr Morrell enjoys reading, particularly scientific material, and at the moment is interested in cognitive science, which he says "is producing fascinating research. Some of the world's best scientists are engineering the universe's most complex observed creation." He plays tennis as often as possible and also loves scuba diving. Mr Morrell is married to Patricia; they have no children yet!

www.ceoexpress.com

As my current homepage, this allows me to explore the best business news, research and utility sites on the web. It lists many of my current favourites and others I have not investigated; the new sites are tempting.

www.webex.com

WebEx is a utility that helps you share your desktop over the web. It adds a visual element to conference calls by allowing other participants to see your presentations and view any application you wish to demonstrate. The brave can even abdicate control of their PC!

www.efax.com

I have joined the free eFax service, which gives me a UK fax number for inbound faxes. My faxes are e-mailed to my corporate e-mail account as attachments, which can be printed, saved or edited. The paying service also allows you to send faxes. Efax links faxes to your PC but poses none of the security risks inherent in attaching a fax-modem to your network.

www.humanmetrics.com

I have used this site only a handful of times but have recommended it often. Visitors can take the well-known Myers-Briggs personality test, which helps them understand their personality type, how they process information and make decisions.

www.google.com

This no-frills search engine is favoured by my techie friends, and I concur. The homepage is lightweight and

the searches are comprehensive and faster than those of any other engines I have used. I do not miss the advanced search features offered by other engines because discrete word searches generally suffice. Furthermore, Google does not interpret "natural language" questions. Instead, its strength is in its wide scope. I prefer this approach because it lets me retain control over the "common sense" element of a search rather than entrust this to an algorithm that is opaque to me.

www.whatis.com

When you're being out-jargoned in a meeting, dash to this site to fill in the blanks! An A-Z list helps you find high-level explanations for terms and gives links to detailed analyses.

www.sciam.com

This is the online edition of Scientific American, a monthly magazine with a mixture of "snippets" and in-depth articles. The online edition's earlier debut gives it the edge over the hard copy for me.

www.scoot.com
www.imdb.com

This is a 1, 2 knock-out combination for UK film-goers. The first searches for films by title, cinema and distance from your home. The second reviews and rates most films on release.

www.streetmap.co.uk

Useful for finding your way about town, this online map search engine for the UK also lets you help your friends find your proposed watering-hole via an e-mail that includes the map's URL.