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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 - company is scheduled to speak on Wednesday.
The Frenchman was quoted recently as saying […]

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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 and is no doubt hoping to build up an international community around these.
One […]

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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 this UK start-up into a nutshell isn’t easy.

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French start-up Criteo, the distributed recommendation service, is dishing out their ‘collaborative filtering technology’ for use in the blogosphere with the AutoRoll widget.
The idea is a dynamic blog roll made up of similar sites that the people who visit your site have an affinity with. It’s a community thing I suppose, a kind of MyBlogLogs […]

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Today Webwag launches Widgets On Demand (WOD) their widget killer application as announced by Webwag’s founder Franck Poisson on a comment to an earlier post here on quoi9. I’ve been having a look at it over the weekend and its quite nifty really. We’ve recently seen Pageflakes proposing ‘widgets to take-out’. Then there was Netvibes […]

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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 there is one simple reason that would explain this haughty indifference, in the USA at […]

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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 - quick sign-up - web-based service with no software to download and install. All the major […]

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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 so far : Wordpress, Blogger, Movable Type, b2evolution, Jlog, FlatPress (a WP without […]

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