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Weekly summary – week 40

2008-10-09T12:56:00.002+02:00

29/09/2008 – Monday Business Week: Best of the Web 2008BBC: Children's web watchdog launchedThe Next Web: Italy’s undeveloped web market has a wealth of opportunitiesArs Technica: UK spy agency looking for a few good Facebook usersPR 2.0: The State of Social Media 2008 30/09/2008 – Tuesday ZDNet: Stallman brands cloud computing as 'stupidity' 01/10/2008 – Wednesday BBC: Google 'Goliath' Microsoft saysAbout.com: StumbleUpon Presents New Way To StumbleGoogle Blog: Browse what the world is saying...

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IntelliEnterprise, web 2.0 intranet suite from Boston

2008-10-06T20:43:00.005+02:00

What is common in the Bank of Montreal (Corporate Treasury), the South African Local Government Association and the Slovak National Museum? All three and many other business organizations and NGOs are customers of adenine TECHNOLOGIES, an intranet specialist from Boston. adenin’s main product is IntelliEnterprise which addresses all the standard Intranet requirements – collaboration tools, document management, knowledge management, content management, workflow, business dashboards, faceted...

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Create your own social network for free with SocialGO

2008-10-04T21:32:00.003+02:00

SocialGO® (from the UK) lets you easily create and run a feature-filled social networking website. You choose who can join, what they can do and how it looks and the best part is it's free to get going. Moreover the best beta social network on SocialGo® will win GBP 1000. It is stand-alone or can simply be bolted onto an existing site if need be. Private or public, it’s your choice. Everyone in your group is included and can get involved in a website where you're in control. Your members run...

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SWIRRL, "like a wiki, but better"

2008-10-02T22:15:00.006+02:00

Swirrl is a new online cloud computing service. It's main aim is to combine the power of a database and the flexibility of spreadsheets with the collaboration potential of a wiki. Swirrl helps your business organize all of its documents and data, so that your business runs more efficiently. All of your data can be kept securely in one place, accessible from any computer on the internet. All information and data is searchable, and all revisions are kept so it doesn't matter if anyone makes a...

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TubeMaster Plus, a freeware multimedia file downloader from France

2008-10-02T20:48:00.005+02:00

TubeMaster Plus is a freeware which can download multimedia files (such as FLV, MP3, MP4 ...) from *ALL* YouTube like websites and can save them on your computer. All multimedia files can be converted to other popular video or audio formats (AVI, MPEG, MP3, MP4, IPod, PSP ...). Click on the tutorial pictures below: You may download it if you wish.

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Weekly summary – week 39, 2008

2008-09-30T19:12:00.002+02:00

22/09/2008 – Monday Ars Technica: Palin hacker's IP address linked to Tennessee college dormForbes: Why Google Isn't EnoughReadWriteWeb: Top Digg User Zaibatsu Banned - Reactions from Both Zaibatsu and Digg Management 23/09/2008 – Tuesday BBC: Mayor sees London as 'wi-fi city'The Next Web: Russian oligarchs slowly taking over Russian tech industry?Internet Evolution: Google v. Apple: Open Phone or Closed Phone? 24/09/2008 – Wednesday Webmonkey: Google Announces Digg For QuestionsReadWriteWeb:...

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PEW report on how Americans use the Internet at their workplace

2008-09-30T17:37:00.002+02:00

An interesting report was issued by the PEW Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project titled “Networked Workers”. Here is a resume of the findings. Most working Americans use the internet or email at work: among those who are employed, 62% could be considered “Networked Workers” who use the internet or email at their workplace. Nearly half of all working Americans do at least some work from home: 45% of employed respondents in our sample reported at least some amount of at-home...

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Social Networking Sites: economic and societal importance for Europe

2008-09-29T09:30:00.002+02:00

The importance of social networking sites in Europe is significantly increasing: in the past year, the use of social networks has grown 35% in Europe. 56% of the European online population visited social networking sites last year and the number of regular users is forecast to rise from today's 41.7 million to 107.4 million in the next four years. In 2007 9.6 million British belonged to the country's social networking community, with 8.9 million and France and 8.6 million in...

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uQudos, a new social gaming network

2008-09-28T22:52:00.003+02:00

I got a comment to one of my blog posts giving me a tip to check out uQudos.com, a new game website where you can upload, play and share all your favorite Flash games. uQudos brings game developers and players together on a new social gaming network. Their mission – as stated on their site – is to stimulate, supply a platform for and reward creativity. Talented game creators, from amateur/home developers to (semi)professional game studios, can easily upload their own-created Flash games, in...

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EU objective to achieve broadband Internet access for all Europeans by 2010

2008-09-26T22:34:00.004+02:00

How can the EU achieve that all Europeans have access to broadband Internet? This is the main question raised in a new Commission report, titled: “COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS on the second periodic review of the scope of universal service in electronic communications networks and services in accordance with Article 15 of Directive 2002/22/EC”. According to the press...

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YouTube Vision, a mashup of latest geotagged videos of YouTube

2008-09-26T09:58:00.004+02:00

I found an interesting Google Maps-Youtube mashup* called YouTube Vision, which shows the most recent geotagged** videos being uploaded to YouTube on Mibazaar.com. If you don’t want to watch the shown video, there is a forward and backward button located at the top right corner of the map. (The forward arrow will take you to the next video and the back arrow will take you to the previous video.) I found it as I was on a virtual cultural journey when I browsed through dozens of geotagged...

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Come2Play, a social gaming network platform for web site owners

2008-09-25T16:00:00.003+02:00

Come2Play, a developer of a unique platform for multiplayer casual Flash games, launched its white-label social gaming network platform in July. The platform offers web site and blog owners the opportunity to create a social gaming network by means of embedding a multiplayer games channel. All games can be spread from this channel as an applications and widgets. Come2Play allows Web site and blog owners to create a private labeled/skinned version of games galleries, channels, applications and...

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Weekly summary – week 38

2008-09-22T20:46:00.002+02:00

15/09/2008 – Monday Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum: Social networks help people to get jobs: employer surveyNYT: New WSJ.com Builds on Its Community of SubscribersBBC: EU launches new hi-tech instituteZDNet: US money heads to European startup, ZemantacomScore: Mobile Search Grew 68 Percent in the U.S. and 38 Percent in Western Europe During Past YearArs Technica: WWW creator Berners-Lee launches ambitious Web FoundationMark Evans Tech: Has Twitter Won the Microblogging War? 16/09/2008 –...

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New PEW report on e-gaming habits of teens in the US

2008-09-22T18:37:00.002+02:00

The survey and the report looks at which teens are playing games, the games and equipment they are using, the social context of their play, and the role of parents and parental monitoring. Though arguments have been made about the civic potential of video gaming, this is the first large-scale study to examine the relationship between specific gaming experiences and teens’ civic activities and commitments. The survey and report were born from the collaboration of the Pew Internet & American...

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Glubble, a free parental control suite for families with young children

2008-09-22T10:12:00.002+02:00

Glubble is a free parental control suite developed by Glaxstar for the Firefox browser, designed for families with young children. Glubble permits each member of the family to have their own custom environment to make sure kids can’t see the whole World Wide Web. Glubble turns the Internet into an activity for the entire family. Just like visiting the local recreation center, Glubble lets parents setup online "play spaces" full of fun, free and safe activities—like games, parent-approved Web...

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GAUDI, Google’ new audio indexing service

2008-09-20T20:24:00.002+02:00

Google Audio Indexing (in short: GAUDI) is a new technology from Google that allows users to better search and watch videos from various YouTube channels – as stated in the FAQ of GAUDI. It uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken. Google Audio Indexing uses speech technology to transform spoken words into text and leverages the Google indexing technology to return the best results to the...

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“Towards Future Media Internet” - conference in October 2008

2008-09-17T20:11:00.003+02:00

The Networked and Electronic Media (NEM) European Technology Platform will have its 2008 NEM Summit on October 13-15, 2008 in Saint-Malo (France). The 2008 NEM Summit "Towards Future Media Internet" aims to be a major conference and exhibition devoted to the field of networked and electronic media and information & communication technologies (ICT) at large. The conference will address topics related to: Electronic Media ContentDistributed Media ApplicationsNew Media Delivery Networks and...

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U.S. cybersecurity is weak, a GAO report states

2008-09-16T13:27:00.002+02:00

BusinessWeek.com revealed a report published by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) titled “CYBER ANALYSIS AND WARNING – DHS Faces Challenges in Establishing a Comprehensive National Capability”. Cyber analysis and warning capabilities are critical to thwarting computer-based (cyber) threats and attacks. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to, among other things, coordinate the nation’s...

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New European Institute of Innovation and Technology to foster excellence in European innovation

2008-09-16T09:52:00.002+02:00

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso officially opened the European Institute of Innovation and Technology in Budapest with Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. The European Institute of Innovation and Technology is a major EU initiative which aims to foster excellence in European innovation and to provide new solutions for major challenges, such as climate change, renewable energies or the next generation of information and communication technologies. In order to achieve its...

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Dwigger = Twitter + Digg

2008-09-15T12:00:00.005+02:00

Dwigger is a voting and threaded conversation tool for Twitter. The main aim of the team behind Dwigger was to create a tool with which you can “digg” (vote) someone’s Twitter comment or get votes for your own comment. Dwigger supplements Twitter by putting „Tweets” (Twitter messages) into threaded conversations with vote buttons. “We love Twitter - but the social interactions sometimes don't work very well. We want to make Twitter more interesting for people to use,” – the team says. Dwigger...

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Weekly summary – week 37

2008-09-15T11:01:00.001+02:00

08/09/2008 – Monday The Next Web: Apple admits Brit invented the iPod 30 years ago (sorta)The Next Web: Skype founders to establish free video calls on televisionGoogle Blog: Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time ReadWriteWeb: OpenOffice: An Early Look at OpenOffice 3 RC1 09/09/2008 – Tuesday NYT: Google Tightens Data Retention Policy — Again 10/09/2008 – Wednesday The Next Web: In our world, bloggers still get jailed for their writings, like ErrajiArs Technica: Google puts wallet...

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Passionato to become the world's most comprehensive online classical resource

2008-09-11T15:36:00.004+02:00

Passionato is a new online service which is said to be the world’s largest collection of quality classical downloads with over 18,000 recordings in high-quality (320Kbps) DRM-FREE MP3 files, compatible with any digital audio player. Passionato's aim is to become the world's most comprehensive online classical resource and offer classical music lovers the largest available collection of high-quality DRM-free classical music downloads. Passionato provides access to catalogues from the two...

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Q2 state of the Internet report by Akamai Technologies issued

2008-09-10T11:08:00.004+02:00

According to its press release, Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, announced the release of the second edition of its quarterly "State of the Internet" report. Akamai's quarterly report provides insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic, network outages and broadband connectivity levels across the globe. During the months of April, May, and June of 2008, over 346 million unique IP...

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European Commissioner about the need of a Single Market for (on-line) services

2008-09-09T10:32:00.006+02:00

“We need a Single Market for (on-line) services. We are on the threshold of a new era of electronic network and service business: the Internet of the future. The first phase of this will be an internet of services (in which software-based services will be offered on-line using the internet as a massive transactional infrastructure). SMEs will increasingly have the possibility to rent computer resources instead of committing to expensive purchases of hardware or software upfront. The shift to...

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Weekly summary – week 36

2008-09-08T11:30:00.003+02:00

01/09/2008 – Monday Google Blog: A fresh take on the browserReadWriteWeb: Google Video for Business Launches: YouTube for EnterpriseTechCrunch: Can Hulu Be A Bigger Business Than YouTube?New Scientist: Cyberwar fears grow after Georgia websites attacked 02/09/2008 – TuesdayGoogle Blog: Google Chrome now liveGoogle Blog: Introducing Picasa 3.0 (and big changes for Picasa Web Albums) CMS Wire: Microblogging with Jaiku: Too Late to the Party?Wired: Amazon Takes On Wikipedia With Editable Music...

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