When it was first launched, Virtual Earth from Microsoft was nothing more than a Google maps clone, with older aerial photographs. Then came the ‘Walk the streets‘ function which was very impressive, but never actually made it into full production and has remained in ‘Preview’ mode and thus still has only limited availability (San Fransisco & Seattle) which makes it untenable. Finally though, the Microsoft Live development team have come up with something unique and worthwhile. Birds eye view mapping. Using Virtual [...]

Talking to the BBC, Youtube founder Chad Hurley has confirmed that a scheme will be rolled out in the next couple of months that will “reward creativity”. Youtube are clearly using this to give users an incentive to make their own videos and not to upload copyrighted material. The money will come from the advertisements which are displayed when a video is viewed on the website, this is another system which the Youtube team are working to re-vamp, more than [...]

LG Shine – Review coming this week

The full text of this article was retracted on February 5th 2007. Please read the retraction notes for more information Can we go three days without somebody calling for Rodney Berman to resign please? It’s getting boring. Neil McEvoy, an unsuccessful Plaid Cymru candidate for various offices, isn’t happy with the fact that Cardiff County Council is attempting to keep its residents informed about a proposed ‘Controlled Parking Zone‘ scheme. Mr McEvoy wants the head of Rodney Berman, council leader, [...]

If I put up a sign in my theoretical restaurant window which said “British diners only”, would I get away with it? With the focus of the entire country on racism this week, thanks to a certain pug-ugly degenerate, a hostel in Cardiff has hit the news for having a “Foreign passport holders only” policy. Is this legal? According to the Comission for Racial Equality, it isn’t. In my imaginary restaurant with my sign, it hasn’t been up for more [...]