Tag Archives: European startups

Hey!Watch off to a good start

Posted by coulson on January 27, 2007 None comments

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 – …

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Blog platforms get the matrix treatment

Posted by coulson on January 22, 2007 1 comments

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 …

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Blogs meet Comic Strips

Posted by coulson on January 15, 2007 None comments

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 …

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One/two free music sites from Europe

Posted by coulson on January 7, 2007 1 comments

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 …

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Get yer Jajah’s out !

Posted by coulson on January 4, 2007 1 comments

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 …

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PHAROS ‘the other Eurogoogle’ receives EU funding

Posted by coulson on December 31, 2006 None comments

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 …

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Visual acoustic synaesthesia

Posted by coulson on December 28, 2006 None comments

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 …

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