September 2011
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Calibri disappears from Google docs
The Ascender Corp font “Calibri,” first included in Google Docs a year ago, seems to have disappeared from Google Docs. Several websites report on the same issues.
June 2011
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Joseph Calleja: Una furtiva lagrima (Donizetti,...
It has been rumoured for a long time that Facebook and Spotify were planning an integrated music service that would extend beyond the current facility in Spotify where, using Facebook Connect, users can connect to friends on Facebook and share playlists and songs from the Spotify music library.
The project has been dubbed Facebook Music and news about the service is expected to be given at the...
Alexandra Picard: The Willow Song (Douglas Moore,...
Alexandra Picard: Der Hölle Rache (Mozart, Die...
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SoundCloud reaches 5 million users
Launched in 2008, the the social audio platform SoundCloud founded by the Swedes Alexander Jung and Eric Wahlforss just reached 5 million users. The news was made known in the SoundCloud blog on 15 June, where an infographic was posted showing the explosive growth of the cloud service.
According to Jung, 4 million of the users have signed up in the last year alone, and the user base grew from 2...
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August 2009
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Twitter Meaningless?
In an article for TechCrunch (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/why-i-dont-use-twitter/), Devin Coldewey lists the reasons for why he doesn’t use Twitter. “Tweets have no value” he suggests, and continues to say that a tweet is “a quantity of data which I believe to be useless, at least in this context. What can be said in 140 characters is either trivial or abridged; in...