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With shake-ups and shake-downs fast becoming monnaie courante in the online music world, music discovery service Last.fm have shook a leg once again:
launching its on-demand service in the US, UK and Germany immediately, [Last.fm] plans to roll it out globally over the coming months…’the world’s biggest free music service‘.
The service allows anyone to tap [...]

France. Last Saturday saw the official inauguration of the Paris Wi-Fi project. Free wireless internet connection is available to anyone in the vicinity of one of the 350 antennae covering 225 public places, parks, libraries and museums in and around Paris. The full 400 antennae for 260 sites will be up by the end of [...]

How do you upgrade to the latest WordPress version with as little effort as possible ? [btw: WP 2.3 'Dexter' was released yesterday, appears to be a fairly big upgrade]
German opensource consulting team Zirona have been working on this and have released a plugin – InstantUpgrade – that looks serious and so it should, when [...]

Just came across the work of Moritz Stefaner a freelance information visualizer and designer from Germany – impressive stuff. If you’re interested in visualization design then take a look at his Thesis page – a roundup of work for his M.A. in Interface Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam.
The FOLDING TIME experiment [...]

Bumped into – Islands of Consciousness from serial Flasheur, Mario Klingemann, alias Quasimondo. Stream of associated images pulled from Flickr tags. Intermingling, distorted photos manipulated in real time by the random soundtrack. Collaboration between Klingemann’s Flickeur project and a musical piece called Islands by Oleg Marakov, a musician and composer from the Ukraine – Got [...]