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Good news this week for a young Spanish start up - Panoramio, who find themselves part of the new Geographic Web layer in Google Earth.
Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar, launched Panoramio, a Google Maps mashup for geo-positioning photos, back in October 2005. It’s a photo sharing free service - up […]

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Let the PC be the DJ
Musicovery can be useful if you like listening to Web radio and discovering new songs but get fed up with the constant rattling of the DJ. Or, you’re with a group of friends and an uninterrupted stream of changing music, in an appropriate mood (tempo, year even), leaves you to […]

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Need a leg up with Markup and Attributes?
Zsolt Georgescu from Hungary has just released htmlPlayground 0.3 beta, a cross reference tool for XHTML and CSS. Built using the Google Web Toolkit, it’s a quick and effective way of showing what each tag does. The various frames show description, attributes and example code that you can […]

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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 startpage, added this option in October, though it seems the Netvibes search is more wide cast, […]

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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 the end of September.
“Today, all your e-mails are stored and sent around the planet in plain text. […]

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Flash genius Paul Neave from the UK, has updated Flash Earth to include images from NASA’s OnEarth MODIS satellites, as well as : Ask.com, Yahoo! Maps & OpenLayers.org.
The NASA imagery is updated daily showing images of cloud formations from all over our planet so if you’re wondering whet the weather is going […]

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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 can authorise other people to find and share their files, this is what is known as […]

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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 editable - is the type of community functionality that has been extended in the new version.

On […]

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