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WAYN – world at their feet

Posted by coulson on November 29, 2006 3 comments

The two British backpackers – Pete Ward, 28, and Jerome Touze, 27, who developed WAYN in their spare time after returning home from a round-the-world trip with combined debts of over Â£40,000, have just secured $11 millions in backing from …

Netvibes destined for more…

Posted by coulson on November 26, 2006 None comments

The people at Netvibes have been extending their personalized startpage services. Included in the new features is the ability to search throughout all the feeds and various modules Netvibes users have been busy collecting on their pages. Webwags, another French …

Quick round-up of the latest online video-sharing sites from France

Posted by coulson on November 22, 2006 None comments

The most popular francophone video-sharing destination, Daily Motion, recently struck a deal with the leading French TV station TF1. DM has developed a Web site for TF1 called Wat.tv where users can post and view videos. TF1 are following in …

Video tutorials at Visuarios

Posted by coulson on November 20, 2006 None comments

Spanish start-up launched on the 21st of October, Visuarios is a new video sharing site with an educational slant. Visuarios videos are a mixture of tutorials, advice, tips & tricks, and simple how-toâ€™s. â€œVisuarios is a website to share videos …

Free encryption tools from Germany

Posted by coulson on November 18, 2006 None comments

One for email The Firefox plug-in Freenigma is an e-mail encryption tool that can be used in a whole range of Web email systems – including Gmail, Yahoo!Mail and Hotmail/MSN. Developed by freiheit.com, Freenigma came out of public beta at …

FON WiFi router in new Skype bundle

Posted by coulson on November 16, 2006 None comments

The largest virtual phone network in the world, Skype and the largest WiFi network in the world, FON, have teamed up to jointly launch a WiFi phone that connects for free wherever you find other foneros (fon community members). Started …

European Web 2.0 company going public

Posted by coulson on November 14, 2006 None comments

The German company, OpenBC is to be floated on the German and Swiss stock exchange within the next six months. The announcement came at the same time as Konstantin Guericke flew into Germany to open a new website for LinkedIn, …