Monthly Archives: February 2007

Free Wi-Fi project in Paris gets go ahead

Aiming to make ‘Paris the most connected city in the world’ Bertrand Delanoë has presented plans to install 400 free Wi-Fi hotspots by the end of 2007. As part of the ‘Paris digital city’ project along with the development of …

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Mr Twingly & Oscar Torrents

Two Swedes in the Net news. Twingly pulls in blog RSS feeds from all over the world, showing them accumulate in pillars on a rotating 3D globe. Post titles scroll by; click on any title to display the post and …

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Europe gets Skype Pro

First Europe – next the world. Skype Pro, the latest offer from the popular VOIP & co. and another bang on the ear for traditional phone companies, was launched on Wednesday and is now available in 15 European countries. For …

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Netvibes spice it up

Tariq Krim will be will be launching a major Netvibes update at the FOWA – Future Of Web Apps – conference being held in London over the next two days. The CEO of the Paris based – Ajax-ified start page …

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World Podcast – the word is not enough

Podemus, a popular French podcasting plate-form / directory / community (in French) have just launched the World Podcast Forum – WPF, ‘an information and communication portal for the diverse and global podcast community’. The WPF includes forums and a blog …

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EU clippings

Sock-puppets wont be waring shades in Europe this year – the future’s not bright. ‘Sock-puppet’ reviews or websites – in case you didn’t know (I didn’t) – are fake blog entries or whole web sites purporting to be created by …

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We’re Jammin

In private beta since the end of November Webjam was publicly launched last week. Pete Cashmore from Mashable called it “Myspace plus Netvibes on steroids”, Sam Sethi from Vecosys “An extremely powerful tool for creating and remixing web pages”. Squeezing …

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