Posts Tagged ‘UK’

Radiohead AniBoom team kick off music video contest

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 [...]

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Free and legal music downloads saga continues…

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 [...]

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MyFootballClub scores a real team !

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 [...]

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Update: free wi-fi in France and Britain

‘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 [...]

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Free Wi-Fi in Europe gearing up

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 [...]

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