quoi9

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 register (free). You don’t need no be able to draw - never […]

[Read more →]

Jamendo is a free share site where you can listen to over 2000 albums. The jamplayer works well - quick with a relatively good sound considering the hardware in my PC. Like an album? Download it. Then you can make a donation to the band, visit their website, buy the cd or not - […]

[Read more →]

Jajah ‘The Peoples Phone Company’ has been receiving a lot of attention and not just from the rumour mills – talk of Apple/Jajah cooperation in an upcoming Apple phone.
The European start-up announced in December an agreement with some of the biggest media companies in Europe - Bild-T Online, News Austria and Germany’s Pro7Sat1 who […]

[Read more →]

FAST, the Norwegian company leading the search engine project known as Pharos - Platform for Search of Audiovisual Resources Across Online Spaces - has announced an €8 million grant from the European Commission.
“This research fund is validation of the key tenets and concepts behind PHAROS…” said Bjørn Olstad, FAST’s CTO and designated Technical Director […]

[Read more →]

An online canvas on which you can compose and perform ‘reactive music & visuals’ - Visual acoustics invites you to paint with sound.
Different brushes (instruments) and mouse movements trigger sound produced by Midi and Soundfont technology.
The further the mouse moves over time, the more strokes (triggered by a timer) are made by your brush. The […]

[Read more →]

There at it again, giving stuff away to all & sundry. Any respect for normal business practice - where people pay for manufactured goods? Not for those Spanish loco revolutionaries down there in Fonland, I’m pleased to say.
So, if you’re a ‘fonero’ in Europe or the USA (prerequisite) apply here and give your friends a […]

[Read more →]

To anybody left wondering what ever happened to Quaero - the Franco-German Internet search engine that was scheduled to be officially launched in early 2006 - it appears to have taken yet another two steps backwards into Franco-French.
At an IT Summit in Potsdam the German Economics minister, Hartmut Schauerte announced that the German Government is […]

[Read more →]

Wikio continues its international development this Monday by launching an English version – Wikio.com, und German – Wikio.de and Spanish – Wikio.es, también.
Pierre Chappaz, who founded the popular (600,000 users in Fr, 100,000 in Italy) user-contributed news company, admits that while Wikio intends to stay a European focused news site, with a UK […]

[Read more →]