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By - Darren Straight

Coolgorilla $100 Million Free Mobile Games Giveaway

In a move that will apparently save mobile consumers an estimated $100 Million over the next three years, software developers Coolgorilla have today begun distributing third party mobile software applications completely free of charge. The move now enables mobile users unlimited access to download free mobile games many of which consumers would normally expect to pay between $5-$10 for. There

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Microsoft Windows Live to build Flickr competitor?

Got the heads up today in an email from Marc Liron a Microsoft MVP about a new Microsoft Job Posting for a Windows Live Program Manager position. In which it is clear that Microsoft are planning to build a Flickr competitor “This feature team is building a next-generation photo and video sharing service that will compete with flickr, smugmug and

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Microsoft Launches Next Generation of Windows Live Online Services

Microsoft has today stepped up its software plus services strategy with the launch of its next generation of Windows Live services that make it easier than ever to communicate and share information safely, from anywhere, and across multiple devices. The new Windows Live offering is a key element in Microsoft’s software plus services approach, designed to deliver a desktop and

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Register your @live.xx email now!

In case you haven’t seen chris’ post on LiveSide – there’s some exciting news (YAY :D) – Microsoft have just enabled the @live.xx signup page! You can register/signup for your local Windows Live ID  (eg @live.co.uk) by heading over to http://get.live.com/getlive/overview or if it’s a global @live.com you wish then you’ll want to head over here – to the @live.com signup page. So far the list

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Windows Live Calendar Beta up and running!

Great news Windows Live Calendar Beta is now up and running and hopefully this time it will be permanent, unlike the other day when they were just testing! 🙂 You can check it out at: http://www.calendar.live.com/calendar/calendar.aspx Or visit the Windows Live Calendar Information Overview page at http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/calendar/ On opening up Windows Live Calendar for the first time you will be

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for October 2007

1999 different keyphrases were used to find my site in October 2007, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 1999 different keyphrases Search Percent vtunnel 3931 28.8 % vtunnel myspace 662 4.8 % vtunnel proxy 511 3.7 % windows 504 3.6 % sites like vtunnel 356 2.6 % v tunnel

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Do The Green Thing!

The Green Thing is a new, not for profit community site that’s just launched. The idea is to unite people against climate change by making it easy and enjoyable to be a bit greener, with the help of London’s creative industries. Every month you get a different Green Thing to do October’s is ‘walk once’ and all you have to

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A Vision of Students Today

A Vision of Students Today is a video created by Professor Michael Wesch and the 200 students enrolled in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, Spring 2007. It began as a brainstorming exercise, thinking about how students learn, what they need to learn for their future, and how our current educational system fits in. It’s pretty interesting to

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WeLoveLocal.com – The smarter way to find local businesses

Last week at Mashup* Demo one of the companies that demoed was WeLoveLocal.com, well I thought id tell you breifly about WeLoveLocal.com. Welovelocal.com is a social local search website which helps people find the best businesses in their area, be it a florist, plumber or restaurant, by reading reviews and recommendations from people they can trust.