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  • Two Thousand Trees Festival, Mobile Tickets By TixMob

    Two Thousand Trees Festival, Mobile Tickets By TixMob‘Green’ festival uses mobile tickets to save the world.

    With the glorious … or was it gory-est … Glastonbury out of the way for at least another year (as well as the BBC’s over-coverage), the other festivals around the UK now have a chance of getting their messages out that 1) They’re on, 2) that they have everything that you heart desires.

    Getting a new festival going these days is pretty hard as so many people are trying to do the same, realising that live music is where-it’s-at as people generally become ever-more atrophied by recorded music.

    New festival, Two Thousand Trees, have a very ‘now’ idea, labeling it as a festival for ethical music fans – and a very worthy one it is in our book too. Beyond this they also have a much-to-be-supported goal of “not ripping people off and making sure everyone has an awesome time at our lovely festival.” Long may this ethos last.
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  • Porn Scum Stoop Ever Lower

    Porn Scum Stoop Ever LowerThis morning my daughter was having a look around for some pictures of medieval castle’s on Google Images. She’s six and a half.

    My Wife was sitting with her while she browsed the index, and as the results looked quite reasonable, she left the room to let her browse around the search results.

    Next thing, our daughter was calling out that she didn’t like what was on the screen – and seeing what was there, no wonder. It was a porn site.
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  • VideoIPO: Video Stock Exchange: Trade On YouTube Popularity

    VideoIPO: Video Stock Exchange: Trade On YouTube PopularityA nifty mashup reaches us via Perry Aulie, co-founder of VideoIPO.

    It’s a service that is hoping to make a success out of the enormous and growing interest in watching videos online, specifically YouTube – but not by following the same now-overdone model of serving videos.

    VideoIPO lets you trade on the popularity of YouTube Videos by mashing up YouTube video and the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) trading engine.
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  • Plazes Launches Out Of Beta

    Plazes Launches Out Of BetaPlazes, a service that enables its users to create geo-indexed information, has finally come out of beta to a release version.

    We’ve been using Plazes for over two years now, so its beta phase has been pretty extensive. In that time it has grown not only in number of users, or locations ‘discovered’ – it’s topped 20,000 places in over 120 countries now – but in terms of functions.

    Since we last looked at it, about six months ago, it’s gained a Twitter-like function – the ability to add short messages telling people what you are up to at any time of the day. This can also be done by mobile phones these days.

    Further new additions bring the ability to add comments to any of the Plazes – anywhere with a WiFi connection – providing a review function as well.

    If you haven’t see it before it’s well worth having a look at – Plazes

  • Microsoft Revamps MSN Mobile

    Microsoft Revamps MSN MobileWith a swish of the ceremonial curtain, Microsoft has launched its updated MSN Mobile service offering, boasting a “redesigned, reinvented” portal.

    Designed for ‘net connected mobile users, the MSN Mobile service offers “one stop” access to news, email, local movie listings, maps, directions, yadda yadda, as well as Windows Live services like Hotmail, Live Messenger, Live Spaces and Live Search.

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  • Search Engines Disagree On Top Matches

    Search Engines Disagree On Top MatchesThe most popular search engines rarely agree with each other when it comes to the top results for identical queries – and the differences are growing yearly.

    In a study involving 19,332 queries typed (presumably not by hand) into Google, Yahoo, Windows Live and Ask, the same top result only popped up on all four search engines 3.6 percent of the time.
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  • Job Website For Migrant Workers To Be Setup In China

    Job Website For Migrant Workers To Be Setup In ChinaA five day gathering in Changsha, China has netted an agreement between a collection of 11 provinces and regions in the Pan-Pearl River Delta (know locally as Pan-PRD), to create a Web site to provide information on the availability of jobs in major cities.
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  • Play YouTube Videos Within Google Search Results

    Play YouTube Videos Within Google Search ResultsThe integration between YouTube and Google is becoming ever-stronger.

    We were doing a bit of research on Google today and noticed that they’ve now included the ability to actually watch the videos that are coming up as search results, _within_ the Google search results.
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  • Lastminute.com Founders To Launch DIY Site

    Lastminute.com Founders To Launch DIY SiteJust about every time you turn on the gogglebox these days there’s invariably a pair of inanely grinning monkeys gushing over some home improvement project or another, so we weren’t surprised to hear that the creators of Lastminute.com were launching a new site targeting the massive DIY market.
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  • Moo Mini-Cards Review (88%)

    Moo Cards Review (88%)It came as a surprise to me how excited I was about receiving my Moo cards today.

    I’ve been meaning to get some since they first surfaced, but my upcoming trip to the Broadband World Forum in Beijing next month brought the need further into focus.
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