Monthly Archives: December 2006

PHAROS ‘the other Eurogoogle’ receives EU funding

FAST, the Norwegian company leading the search engine project known as Pharos – Platform for Search of Audiovisual Resources Across Online Spaces – has announced an €8 million grant from the European Commission. “This research fund is validation of the …

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Visual acoustic synaesthesia

An online canvas on which you can compose and perform ‘reactive music & visuals’ – Visual acoustics invites you to paint with sound. Different brushes (instruments) and mouse movements trigger sound produced by Midi and Soundfont technology. The further the …

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Have Fon !

There at it again, giving stuff away to all & sundry. Any respect for normal business practice – where people pay for manufactured goods? Not for those Spanish loco revolutionaries down there in Fonland, I’m pleased to say. So, if …

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Swiss whispers

Another European telecommunications (Swisscom) subsidiary company is tuning into the blogosphere and receiving funds for doing so. coComments is one of a handful of start-ups who are trying to help people keep tabs on their – or other peoples – …

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WengoVisio – videophone for blogs

After the OpenWengo project – ‘A VoIP provider whose goal is to make standards-based SIP telephony available to all’, Wengo, a subsidiary of the French telecommunications company Neuf Cegetel, has begun flirting with the blogosphere. WengoVisio, a video communication widget …

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Germany pulls the plug on Eurogoogle

To anybody left wondering what ever happened to Quaero – the Franco-German Internet search engine that was scheduled to be officially launched in early 2006 – it appears to have taken yet another two steps backwards into Franco-French. At an …

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Moving on up with OpenServing

Well I tried to move on. I wandered off, looking elsewhere for interesting EU initiatives, after a disappointing time spent sifting through the write-ups and left-overs of the LeWeb3 conference held in Paris this last week. Then there was the …

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