>> 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. >> Zemanta from Slovenia [one of [...]
“Harvard releases innovative P2P video software” these titles abound at the moment, concerning Tribler, the p2p file sharing client… A news release issued by Harvard University last week, was distilled by the New Scientist, and produced the title: Bandwidth could be a new global ‘currency’. Tasty little soundbite and prime candidate for a few front [...]
“Deezer is the first juke box on demand totally free in the world!” that’s according to Deezer. Brief recap: BlogMusik – French mp3 streaming site – is closed down by SACEM (equivalent to ASCAP or BMI in the US, or SOCAN in Canada). BlogMusik sheds skin, becomes Deezer. Deezer signs a deal with almighty SACEM [...]
>> 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 and film. [...]
Another day, another dose of betas. Looking in on sites like Original Signal that aggregate popular tech sites, most of these new web apps, it appears, are much of a muchness. I wouldn’t shout ‘the king has no clothes’, I don’t think that would be true. In fact I think he’s well dressed and going [...]
There are start up stories and then there are good start up stories. WAYN (Where Are You Now) has a beginning that makes for the good kind. Maybe it’s because of these beginnings that the ‘doing good’ continues and not just for the bottom line. Amongst the recent Press Releases and blog posts about a [...]
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.