Category: Europe
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World Cup football blogging marathon in Berlin
With just over two weeks to go until the start of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, here’s a great opportunity for footie fans who are also bloggers (or vice versa) – stay in a flat in central Berlin during…
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Google: The Buddha of the internet age
A nice soundbite from an observer of the Google Zeitgeist Europe conference taking place in the UK today: […] One analyst, who declined to be named, said: “Google likes to see itself as the Buddha of the internet age who…
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The French oxymoron called Quaero
In January, I wrote about Quaero, a planned European multimedia search engine, the answer to Google and brainchild of the French government. My own thoughts about it were expressed thus: […] The idea of Quaero is a terrific one. Yet…
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The Kremlin’s PR challenge
The Financial Times reports on a big task for any PR agency: Russia’s presidential administration has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Ketchum, a US-based PR firm, to advise on communications with western media during its G8 term, which started on…
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EU domain takes off
Europeans have rushed to grab a virtual home in cyberspace, says the BBC. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up for new .eu domain name since it became available to the public on Friday, according to the BBC News…