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 [...]
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 [...]
I wrote about the EasyGate ‘box’ last September,(picked up by Slashdot – link) I suppose you could call it a follow up to the French Minitel, designed for Internet access and not much else really. But then, with the whole concept of Web based operating systems taking off, online storage for free etc. what more [...]
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 databases!?), PSG, [...]
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 easy with a [...]
If you can you sing it or whistle it, or piece it together on a virtual piano, or even tap it’s rhythm on your PC keyboard, then there is a chance you might find out where that song comes from with a little help from The Open Music Encyclopedia. Musipedia has been under constant development [...]
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 [...]