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Banksy hangs his own work in four museums in New York.

Yahoo! Search was just extended with a creative commons search option. A great boost for the CC community i would think. Too bad the image search does not have this option yet…

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…in case you did not already know (like everybody else): Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr

A few smart people have rebranded Wiki as Jotspot and set the whole thing up as a Wiki for dummies application for use in companies. The thing is not my style (too much fluff) but at least it looks more accessible than most Wiki applications. What is cool: e-mail to Wiki functionality and combining structured (forms) and unstructured (hypertext) data in a single simple to setup (or so they say) application. Oh, and it’s built with PHP, but which cool ‘new’ (new as in i just recently heard about it) web application isn’t right?

Actually it’s weird that you don’t see more e-mail integration in web apps. E-mail integration is simple to build and everybody uses e-mail…

After the stories that Apple has systematically downgraded the rights you have over the mp3’s you bought from iTunes in the past months this latest discovery puts iTunes in the same corner with all the other braindead music industry people: Boing Boing: iTunes music ruins Apple slideshows

Music remains a sensitive business run by unsensitive corporate drones. And Apple (as they smell the money probably) is scooching over to corporate drone land with more and more dedication. They are selling expensive mp3s that are becoming more unusable everyday and they don’t even bother to pay the artists a fair share. How cool is that?

Vincent zet de argumenten tegen softwarepatenten nog eens fijntjes op een rij.

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You are sitting in a small neighbourhood cafe, about to order your cappuchino when you notice everyone around you tapping away at the keyboards of the laptops on their tables. Then you notice that they are all exchanging timid glances over their laptop screens at each other. What’s happening? You have not entered a cafe! you have entered a live chatroom!

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Rather silly isn’t it…

Chem student tames Microsoft’s legal eagles | The Register

super volcano (the 2 hour souped up dramatized special effects version of the horizon documentary) is about to start on the BBC so switch of your computer and turn on the telly. you know.. that other big box.