• Germany cloning goes on …


    Germany is starting to build a name for itself as the startup cloning capital of the world. German clones of popular U.S. services, refer to the very previous post.

    The latest German clone, Verwandt, means “related” in English. Its design and functionality is very similar to its U.S. counterpart, Geni (a cool service enabling you to build your own family tree free for free). In fact it goes well beyond similar – Verwandt is a Geni clone dressed up in some cuddlier graphics. It uses the same layout and quick sign-up flash-based registration form as the U.S. site. They’ve also copied the family tree navigation and profile pages. Take a look below to judge the similarities for yourself. Here is:

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  • Germany & copy/paste innovations


    Whether you’re looking for social bookmarking, photo sharing, video posting or a college social network, Germany’s clever entrepreneurs have done the translation for you and some even fared quite well.

    You are familiar with some great services like Facebook, digg, blogger, flicker, YouTube, etc. Germany has cloned their versions of these by itself. See the table listed below.

    In the U.S. In Germany
    Web 2.0 Web Zwei Null
    YouTube Sevenload, MyVideo
    MySpace  UndDu
    Flickr  Sevenload, Photocase
    del.icio.us Mister Wong
    Yelp  Qype
    Facebook  StudiVZ
    Digg  WebNews, Yigg
    Blogger, LiveJournal  blog.de, twoday.net
    Meebo  Mabber
    Etsy  Dawanda
    Cafepress  Spreadshirt
    Slide  imageloop
    Flixster  MoviePilot
    Twitter  Frazr, Wamadu, Sloggen, …

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  • ATV, Jordan’s first independent TV Channel


    200px-atv_jordan.jpgATV (Jordanian United TV Broadcasting Company PLC), Jordan’s first independent TV Channel started its pilot broadcast and signal testing as of July 23, 2007. The channel is broadcasting through Nilesat 102 on a frequency of 12303H¾.

    ATV was founded by Mohamad Alayyan, a Jordanian business man who has invested in Jordan’s media scene including Al-Ghad daily, Al-Waseet classified paper, in addition to several magazines and FM radio stations.

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  • Microsoft can hack XP systems legally


    You’ve gotta read this:

    Microsoft said its engineers included a secret back door including the phrase “Netscape engineers are weenies!” in Web site authoring software that could allow hackers to gain unauthorized access to potentially thousands of Web sites…

    + Find more here & here.