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Art: Saatchi Showdown

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A Pop Idol-style competition has been launched by well known art collector Charles Saatchi to find a new exhibitor at his latest gallery that will open its doors during autumn this year in London. Anybody can submit images of their work to the website, where they will be judged by their peers in an giant online talent contest. The Showdown initiative is an extension of the popular “Your Gallery” section on Saatchi’s website, that provided a platform for online submissions from artists around the world. The website has received more than 50 million hits since going live earlier this month. Over the next six months thousands of art works will be voted down to twelve in a series of bi-weekly votes…

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Web 2.0: Reuters will launch financial Social Network

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Reuters is planning to launch this year a financial network for fund managers, traders and analysts similar to MySpace. The web site will be exclusive to Reuters’ subscriber base of about 70,000. “…People don’t want to have 100 friend requests from teenage girls in Florida if they are trading the…

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Duvet-Dayz: Our Best of Lists

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Over the last months we have created a serie of Best of list that turned out to be very popular with our readers. Below you find an overview and links to all the lists…

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DIGG: Wisdom of the Crowds or Famous for 15 minutes

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Social Networking site “Digg.com” puts quite some efforts up to show its users that they are just submitting a duplicate news story. While the duplicate search often comes up with some unrelated stuff it almost always finds duplicates. And when we see that somebody before us has already spread the news we just digg that story and cancel our submission. Not so for many other Digg users as it seems…We just had a look around in their Apple sections and the image below shows the results…

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Second Life: Best quote on what it is

We documented some background information on Second Life a few weeks ago. Now Robert Scoble has provided us with the best definition from an interview he has done last week at LIFT show in Geneva: He was interviewing Sister Judith Zoebelein, who manages the Vatican’s Web site and asked her: “… do you think we’ll [...]


CityPixel: Social Network 3D pixel world

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For those of you who could never get enough of playing SimCity there is a new social Network site that with its pixel graphics look much like the popular game. CityPixel is a pixel based 3D city (New York) where you can move around, enter buildings, buy apartments, chat, blog, share videos etc, play games, and socialize…

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