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1308249141 61 Let software choose the soundtrack to your pictures

Websites like Flickr and YouTube make it easy to share photo slideshows and videos of memorable events, but what about the killer soundtrack that every memorable montage must have? if you’ve ever spent hours hunting through your MP3 collection, you’ll appreciate a new algorithm that is meant to suggest the perfect mix automatically.

1307917238 82 AFP: Japan 3 D pop avatar a real world hitJapan 3-D pop avatar a real-world hit

TOKYO — Japanese teenage pop sensation Miku Hatsune has millions of smitten fans, a string of top hits and an image entirely unblemished by drug use, scandals or celebrity meltdowns.

1307865024 12 Potential savings for ISPs

KUALA LUMPUR: Internet service providers (ISPs) can potentially save more by paying less for international gateway and also reduce bandwidth congestions on their network following the instruction to block access to 10 peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing sites.

Looking back on websites from the mid-1990s, you can clearly see the evolutionary link to many of the sites and apps from this era. For example, Razorfish’s 1995 online art gallery The Blue Dot is an ancestor of Arcade Fire’s Wilderness Downtown video – animation is a feature of both sites. The Blue Dot was one of the very first animated websites, according to Razorfish co-founder Craig Kanarick. Obviously the Arcade fire site is much more advanced technologically, due to the software and hardware available today.

1307439335 37 Making music on the Web

A new start-up company aims to bring a slice of Silicon Valley to the Twin Cities.

SwapBeats is a social networking platform for musicians, producers and sound engineers of any background or skill level, aimed at fostering digital music collaboration and networking across the globe.

 Video   Rihanna defends violent video   The AgeReturn to video Help with videos Streaming media

Websites in the Fairfax Digital Network offer streaming video and audio in the Flash format. Streaming media allows you to watch video on a website as a continuous feed, as opposed to waiting for an entire audio or video file to download to your computer before you can use it.