Facebook Places deals are coming to Europe.
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Facebook Places deals are coming to Europe.
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Digg Of Europe Wants To Become Demand Media Of Europe
Wikio Group has raised 4 million euros (~$5.3M) to build a content farm a la Demand Media, the company announced yesterday.
Wikio is a very interesting European company. It may look like a Digg clone, but it was founded by Pierre Chappaz, the founder of price comparison engine Kelkoo, a dotcom bust survivor which was acquired by Yahoo for $579 million. And unlike its US counterpart which has lost much of its luster, Wikio is thriving as a news portal and blog search engine.
Wikio recently merged with Overblog, one of the biggest blog publishing platforms in Europe, and acquired eBuzzing, a blog-focused ad network. So Wikio is on an aggressive and interesting warpath to building a European social media powerhouse.
Its odds to build a European version of Demand Media's content farms are good for a very simple and obvious reason -- the language barrier. It's going to be a slog for Demand Media or even Yahoo's Associated Content to build localized versions of their content farms, complete with editors and checking, whereas Wikio can get started in several languages right away. And there's no reason why pages designed to tap long tail searches in European languages can't be as successful as they've been in the US.
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Digg Of Europe Wants To Become Demand Media Of Europe
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Visa Europe experimenting with location-based services to cut down on fraud
Location-based services and GPS can be used for a number of things, but have you considered them being used for fraud prevention? That's an idea just announced by Visa Europe.
It's pure common sense: the assumption is that if the smartphone and your
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It's pure common sense: the assumption is that if the smartphone and your
Tags: credit card
gps smartphone
Visa Europe experimenting with location-based services to cut down on fraud
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Monday, November 8, 2010
The Evolution of Europe: 10 Centuries in 5 Minutes
I am a big fan of temporal map visualizations, and today I came across this beauty:
Friday, October 29, 2010
Lego Map of Europe
Wow: a huge relief map of Europe made of Lego — 53,500 bricks’ worth — with monuments added (not to scale). Via MAKE.
Lego Map of Europe first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on October 29, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.
Post originale: http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2010/10/lego_map_of_eur.php
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards
An anonymous reader writes "The Business Software Alliance is trying to kill open standards. Free Software Foundation Europe has gotten hold of a letter in which the BSA tries to bully the European Commission into removing the last traces of support for open standards from its IT recommendations to the public sector. FSFE published the BSA's letter (PDF), and picked apart its arguments one by one."
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