Virtuaffinity News 2005
The Register - Music and Media
Biting the hand that feeds IT
eMusic rattles ISPs over legal downloads
Pakman eats dots, avoids ghosts
The boss of Apple?s iTunes nearest rival eMusic has warned that recent deals struck between the music industry and UK internet providers could threaten the existence of legal sites.?
Nokia pitches 'free music with old phone' offer
Comes With Music comes with old 5310
Nokia has said its Comes With Music free song download service is coming to the UK. The only snag: you?ll have to buy a phone that?s more than 12 months old.?
Now Hollywood is chasing UK downloaders
And getting the wrong guy
Exclusive Tiscali threatened to disconnect a customer for illegally downloading a TV show last week, after receiving a copyright infringement notice from a Hollywood studio. The only problem was the customer had quit the ISP months before the alleged transgression was made.?
Reformatting freetard fubars RIAA fight
Kazaa user destroyed evidence
Good grief, people. As things are, we'll never have to pay for recorded music ever again. Getting free music online is as easy as picking up five pound notes in the street (when no one's watching) - and the chances of facing a fine range from minimal to non-existent.?
GooTube cheers online gay porn ruling
Court boots Veoh suit, steels DMCA
Much to Google's delight, a federal judge has dismissed a porn infringement suit brought against online video site Veoh.com.?
- At Last Our New Website is complete.
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It was meant to be the new Virtuaffinity 2005 website and launched by March 2005 but finally it arrives just in time for the start of 2006. We've been so busy with everyone elses web work that our own site has repeatedly been put on the back burner.
As well as giving the site a facelift we've incorporated a few bits and pieces that we've been playing with over the year and have come to love.
Blogger
We love blogger and our own blog has grown to such an extent that we felt it worthy of becoming a part of our main site. We've branded it to look exactly like this site so it will fit in seamlessly.
Flickr
Still relatively new to us but it made an instant impression. Flickr is brilliantly simple but ticks all the boxes and is a great example of collaborative media sharing via the web. We're adding photos we take of our wonderings and displaying a random selection of 6 on our home page. It's a lovely way to have our home page look fresh and different on each visit. It's not big or clever but it's simple and effective which is something we like.
del.icio.us
del.icio.us is an online service that lets you save a list of your favourite websites and tag them with appropriate keywords. The beauty of it is that no matter where you go you'll always have your list of favourites with you. We're using it to display a list of sites we use regularly on our resources page so take a look to see if there is anything of interest to you.
- December 2005 | Roy Wilding
- Website Accessibility Working Group
I'm starting to "do my bit" for Manchester Digital. We start with the first in what I hope will be a series of events to drive Greater Manchester forwards as a centre of excellence for standards based intelligent website delivery. We're great believers in inclusivity and website accessibility is so very key to how we drive the web as whole forward. Consequently, in conjunction with Manchester Digital and with the very valuable assistance of the Manchester Digital Development agency, we are launching the Accessibility Working Group.
- June 2005 | Simon Wharton
- e-Tameside Site Launches
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We've launched two new sites this month that are both taking part in the e-Tameside scheme.
- May 2005 | Roy Wilding
- The Best Restaurant in Manchester
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It was something of a POETS Friday today as Simon was treated to lunch at the best restaurant in Manchester. Believe me when I say that once you've tried the steak and kidney pudding, you can die happy.
- April 2005 | Simon Wharton
- Virtuaffinity to provide consultancy to Kintish
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The rather talented and inspirational Will Kintish has retained VirtuAffinity to provide consultancy services to the Kintish organisation
- April 2005 | Simon Wharton
- Blog Off
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We've both launched our own blogs in a bid to record our experiences of the Internet and the Internet service industry.
- March 2005 | Roy Wilding
- E V Leonard Phase 1 Complete
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We've completed phase 1 of our e-marketing campaign for E V Leonard and the results are starting to show.
http://search.msn.co.uk/results.aspx
- March 2005 | Roy Wilding
- Virtuaffinity contracted by E V Leonard to provide e-marketing support
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VirtuAffinity are extremely chuffed that we have been contracted by E V Leonard to provide e-marketing support via their website. E V Leonard manafacture high quality Forklift Truck attachments including self dumping hoppers, jibs, booms and working platforms.
- March 2005 | Simon Wharton
Phill Page and Sons - Block Paving Manchester
