Monthly Archives: January 2007

Share a Whisher today

Posted by coulson on January 31, 2007 None comments

Launching their free Wi-Fi sharing software yesterday, Spanish start-up Whisher are following in the footsteps of Fon, another Don Quichotte-like figure – fighting the towering ISP windmills that remain distant and unimpressed – but for how long? According to ISPortal …

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Hey!Watch off to a good start

Posted by coulson on January 27, 2007 None comments

Particles, a small Web company from France, recently opened up public beta testing of Hey!Watch, their online video conversion and encoding platform, receiving page space & praise from the high priests in Webtech blogland. So what’s on offer? A – …

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EasyGate left open

Posted by coulson on January 25, 2007 None comments

I wrote about the EasyGate ‘box’ last September,(picked up by Slashdot – link) I suppose you could call it a follow up to the French Minitel, designed for Internet access and not much else really. But then, with the whole …

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Blog platforms get the matrix treatment

Posted by coulson on January 22, 2007 1 comments

The team that developed the Wiki software comparison site WikiMatrix has been busy applying the same formula to Podcatchers, Forums, and now Weblogs. CosmoCode, a German IT company has just released WeblogMatrix with 11 blog software options up for comparison …

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The naked civil avatar

Posted by coulson on January 20, 2007 None comments

Picture the scene – Jean Michel Billaut, recently promoted ‘Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur’ by President Chirac for the promotion of the Internet in France, walks buff naked into the Socialist Party conference rooms to be greeted by right-wing fanatics …

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La Politique 2.0

Posted by coulson on January 17, 2007 5 comments

With less than 100 days to go to the first round of the French Presidential elections, France2 along with Google Vidéo France has opened a website elections.france2.fr dedicated to the campaign. Along with a selection of the main stories from …

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Blogs meet Comic Strips

Posted by coulson on January 15, 2007 None comments

Stripgenerator – from the Republic of Slovenia – is a flash based comic strip website that allows you to create you own cartoons with very little fuss, you can even start your own comic strip blog if you care to …

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