Category: Web 2.0

EXCLUSIVE: Plaster your friends' faces onto tshirts with Super Photos from Photobox

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Photo printing service Photobox, who specialise in putting pictures of cats onto mugs, and that sort of thing, are extending their API to integrate with Facebook. Very soon you’ll be able to put any photos from your Facebook account onto mousemats, or paperweights, or keyrings, or even onto stretched canvas. Just the thing for a last minute birthday present for Mum – your grinning face on a handbag…

Duncan Geere Cameras, Facebook Applications, Web 2.0, Websites

WHY OH WHY OH WHY would anyone put a Firefox theme on Google Chrome?

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Imagine. Imagine you have already achieved all there is to achieve. Done everything. Seen everything. Been everywhere and put your winkie into every possible orifice known to man, and a few only known to the more attractive animal species (I’m looking at you, you sexy zebra).

What’s left? What one task is the very last task a man should do before dying?

Gary Cutlack Computers, Internet, Software, Web 2.0

Google to start archiving 30 glorious years of Page 3 stunnas, with its Newspaper Search

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Google will soon start the mammoth task of scanning in decades worth of old newspapers, allowing us to finally search information and news from before the internet period. Everything that happened in the 1980s will start to exist again.

In a similar fashion to Google’s impressive but under-the-radar Book Search, the newspaper service will let us browse through old papers, bringing entire pages up as zoomable, Google Maps-style images. The Times already does…

Gary Cutlack E-Books, Intellectual Property, Internet, Software, Web 2.0, Websites

Vodafone launches Connect to Friends Facebook application

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Vodafone is on the jazz and it’s them who’ve had the foresight to team up with Facebook and supply a lot of text for not very much with their Facebook application Vodafone Connect to Friends.

What we’re looking at here is a service much like what talk21 and others did back in the day where you can type SMS messages into your PC and send them out to your mates’ phones…

Daniel Sung Facebook Applications, Mobile phones, Web 2.0

Half of teachers think the internet's useful, half don't, and 20% don't understand it at all

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That long-winded headline is the summary of a survery carried out by LM Research, which interviewed 1,500 teachers, parents and students about how the internet is changing the classroom.

Half of teachers think that internet tools like Wikipedia are good, but half think they’re of no educational use and simply distract the youth of today…

Gary Cutlack Computers, Internet, Web 2.0, Websites

EMI adding over 400,000 new tunes to We7's free streaming library

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We7, the free-to-use ad-funded music site that’s famously the brainchild of musical wildcard Peter Gabriel will, finally, soon feature the Peter Gabriel back catalogue in its listings.

This is thanks to music goliath EMI announcing a deal to stick 400,000 of its songs up on the streaming service before the end of the year, a move which will significantly boost the amount of content on the rapidly-growing free music site. Sony BMG…

Gary Cutlack Digital Music, Intellectual Property, Internet, Web 2.0, Websites