Tag: free

5FactsAboutMe: Find Out How Well Your Friends Know You

Posted by Nexus – 02/03/2011

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How well do your friends really know you? You can never be sure unless you distribute a questionnaire testing your friends knowledge of you. “5 Facts About Me” lets you do this in a very simple way.

5 Facts About Me is a free to use website that presents your friends with 5 facts about you. Your friends need to choose whether or not those facts are true or false. You can type in your own facts after creating an account on the site or connecting your Twitter or Facebook account. You get a public URL for your facts that can be shared on online social networks. Friends can easily take the 5-facts quiz and get their score.

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Digital Economy Bill signals end of free WiFi

Posted by Nexus – 01/03/2010

[via bit-tech.net]

The administrative overhead in offering customers free Internet access could become to much to bear if the Digital Economy Bill goes forward.

The Digital Economy Bill – which aims to curtail file sharing by introduction stronger sanctions against those found trading in copyright material, up to and including disconnection from the Internet – could have an unfortunate side effect: the death of the free, open wireless access point.

Lillian Edwards, professor of Internet law at Sheffield University, is quoted by ZDNet as stating that the scenarios detailed in an explanatory document produced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills would “outlaw open WiFi for small businesses.”

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Top 10 Free Ways To Discover New Music Online

Posted by Nexus – 28/02/2010

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Bored with your music and want to discover some new bands or singers? There are two main ways you can do that online. You can use services which create music maps, allowing you to explore artists similar in genre to the artists you already listen to. Or you can use music blogs and websites that showcase independent or up-and-coming artists, whether the music is being reviewed, or posted by the musicians themselves.

Some of these websites have a community built around them, which gives fans the opportunity to interact directly with these new talents.

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