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Fact: Flash Player is the most widely installed software in the history of computing.
Question: Given today’s press release from Nokia, are Adobe going to be outmanoeuvred by Microsoft’silverlight on mobiles ?
Answer: Pull the other one, it repeats “I’m a Flash killer” in a squeaky voice
Sparked by Daren Waters over at dot.life blog
The next stage in [...]

FlashEarth, the marvelous mashup of online mapping services by Paul Neave from the UK, has broken into new territory, thanks to Valery Hrosunov and Barry Hunter.
“What if the current view in Google Earth was quickly viewable in other maps, such as those made accessible by FlashEarth? Well, now it is. As you [...]

Portaneo, another Parisian web company offering Ajaxified start-page packages akin to NetVibes & Webwags, have just taken a boulevard perhaps less travelled but in the long run one that could prove to be more interesting, by giving away the source code of their web portal - available for download here.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]