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>> Chipwrapper - set of tools to search the sites of major UK newspapers [BBC, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Guardian, Independent, ITN, Sky News, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Times] includes a Google CSE, a Yahoo! Pipe for the Headlines and IE7 / Google Toolbar plugins.
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>> The Filter will be expanding thanks to a £2.5 million cash funding from Peter Gabiel and Eden Ventures. Exabre, the U.K. based music recommendation technology company, who released a new version of the program last week, are said to be preparing The Filter’s software for recommendation services beyond music, such as video […]

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In a move that’s been on the cards since 2003, the BBC officially announced this week, the plans to make its entire archive available to watch, listen to and download online. The proposals will give licence fee payers access to over 1 million hours of archive footage! A trial, which will involve 20,000 users, will […]

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This week at the Paris ‘Salon du Livre’ book trade show, Jacques Chirac finally inaugurated Europeana, a prototype of the French effort towards the long time coming, European Digital Library (ELD).

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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 customers that are in fact, made and maintained by businesses to tout their wares. A […]

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The redemption of P2P file sharing made headway in some parts of Europe recently. In a similar decision to the one made in a Spanish courtroom last year, the Italian Appeal Courts overturned an earlier conviction against two Turin students, stating that - the downloading of copyrighted material for non lucrative purposes, is not illegal.
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