HotSoup.com: Now live and cooking

Much talked about social network site for political issues HotSoup has a few hours ago opened its gates and is now online.
Created by …four Democratic strategists, three Internet entrepreneurs, two Republican strategists and one journalist… they are planning to bring together 80+ celebrity opinion leaders with grass roots opinion drivers (?consumers) to engage them [...]

New MS Webcam: LifeCam NX-6000

The new LifeCam NX-6000 extends Microsoft’s existing series of webcams with a compact model designed specifically for notebook computers.
Key features:

High Definition video: 2.0 megapixel - (1280 × 1024 resolution)
Video effects
Still Image Resolution: 7.6 megapixel - (3200 × 2380 pixels, interpolated)
Wide-angle lens with 71 degree field of view
Automatic face tracking software
Built-in microphone
Digital Zoom: 3x
IM Compatibility: [...]

China: Censors open some access to Wikipedia (Access chart)

After having blocked access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for almost a year completely, China has now started to open up some parts of it.
With the help of bloggers and Wikipedians across China Andrew Lih has created a chart of Wikipedia reachability from within China.
The English language version (en.wp) is now widely accessible while [...]

Reuters gets virtual Second Life

After companies like Major League Baseball, Harvard University, American Apparel Inc. and CNet.com today news giant Reuters announced that it has created a presence in the Second Life world.
From its Virtual News Bureau chief “Adam Reuters” who’s real name is Adam Pasick will report regularly. He has setup virtual office and his office [...]

Singapore plans free wireless Internet

From January next year, Singaporeans will get to enjoy free wireless Internet in public areas for two years. The government hopes this will grow the broadband market from the current 50,000 users to about 250,000 users in two years.
Three operators - iCELL network, QMax Communications and SingTel will participate in this government and [...]

Web Browsers: New IE and Firefox ante portas

Both Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation today announced new versions of their popular web browsers.
Both releases are primary targeted at web developers. The public release for Mozilla Firefox is due within November 2006 while Microsoft wants to roll out Internet Explorer 7 by the end of October to end users.
Developers are strongly advised [...]