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Radiohead have started a music video competition called the In Rainbows Contest over at independent video animation site AniBoom. It started two days ago - Monday 17th March - and storyboards can be sent in up until April 27.
Outline: Submitted work will be rated by the Aniboom community who will choose the 10 semi-finalists that [...]

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 [...]

Fans get a chance to have their say on managing an English football club. The Beeb’s sport page is reporting that myfootbalclub.com, [the site has crashed at the minute] a community site launched in April, has mustered £700,000 already, enough to buy control over the non-league club, Ebbsfleet United! How’s that for crowdsourcing. 20, 000 [...]

‘Borne’ Identity II

Mentioned in the last post, nearly all the free wi-fi access points promised by the Mayor of Paris, are now up and waving.
Gripe: the official Paris Wi-Fi site is not very helpful for finding a ‘borne‘ in your immediate…, there is a list with links to zoomable aerial photo views of the corresponding [...]

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 [...]

Last.FM, the UK based, social-music platform - with over 20 million registered users - have launched their ‘Campaign for better music’ with the ‘Now form a band’ web site, designed to be a leg-up guide to the sites and softs that could prove helpful in the promotion of unsigned bands. From the site manifesto:
In [...]

>> 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 [...]

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 [...]