Techcrunch recently announced the results of their annual tech awards – ‘The Crunchies’, with some exciting and original new names being recognised among the more established older companies and services. Once more Facebook has done extremely well, despite some controversy over its continued classification as a ’start-up’ (it has won the award for ‘best overall start-up’ for three years running…)
Anyway click over to the original Techcrunch post for a link to watch the full ceremony live – I won’t spoil the other results for you here, apart from one which I think deserves a special mention: Spotify (which won the ‘best international’ award). A fantastic service of which I’m a big fan, and perhaps even more crucially – possibly the thing…
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The topic of online filesharing has again been pretty prominent on the news agenda this week, with the Featured Artists Coalition (which includes names such as Lilly Allen and George Michael) issuing a new statement on their position regarding the disconnection of downloaders. Basically they agree to a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ type policy, whereby the ‘out’ would actually represent more of a crippling bandwidth throttling (thus making filesharing unfeasable) instead of outright disconnection: e-mail for example will still be accessible.
Now, my view on introducing any kind of policy which actually threatens to decrease the general level of web access and connectedness in this country is pretty simple: it’s stupid, from most perspectives – including the economic one that…
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