Monthly Archives: October 2006

World’s largest digital photo

Posted by coulson on October 30, 2006 1 comments

An Italian company HAL9000 has just published on their web site a digital photo that comes in on the scales at 8,6 gigapixels! The company affirms that it is the biggest digital photo that has ever been produced & available …

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GiveMeBackMyGoogle clean without the Ads! Have they all caught CSE ?

Posted by coulson on October 27, 2006 None comments

After all the buzz on October 24 – Google launched Google CSE (custom search engine) a system for customizing the search engine around a given theme – here are 3 systems that have already been transplanted onto Google. The theme? …

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Free Online (Human!) Translation Service

Posted by coulson on October 25, 2006 3 comments

Cucumis is a translation exchange service where translators can share their linguistic knowledge and help each oher online, earning points when they provide a service and spending them when using a colleague’s service. No money changes hands. The translations are …

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AllPeers transforms Firefox into P2P

Posted by coulson on October 23, 2006 None comments

U.K. start-up AllPeers Ltd have just released AllPeers Beta 0.52 – 10 October. Developed by Matthew Gertner, specialist in XML technologies & Cédric Maloux, it is a P2P network for Firefox users & installs as an extension. Only the user …

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Pageflakes has face-lift

Posted by coulson on October 19, 2006 3 comments

German startup Pageflakes, an Ajax-rich personized home page has undergone a major upgrade to its interface, which has just gone live today. The page publishing feature, which enables users to share their pages with other people – as read-only or …

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Fans and Artists in business together on Dutch startup – Sellaband

Posted by coulson on October 17, 2006 4 comments

Set up buy two Dutch businessmen, the website Sellaband provides a link between unknown musicians and fans ready to invest their mony in a system that promises to benefit bands, fans and producers. Here’s how: bands upload sample music to …

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French adopt Web 2.0 en masse

Posted by coulson on October 11, 2006 None comments

Médiamétrie, a French research institute, published its first survey dedicated to Web 2.0 this week. It analyzes the practises of French internauts over the age of 15 that surf ‘assiduously’, meaning that they connect every day or nearly. This category …

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