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To promote its Cingular Sounds mobile music services, Cingular has created a user-generated music contest with partner Freewebs.…
Billboard, 5-12-2007
Pittsburgh Innovates: Fotowoosh Transforms Web Site to 3-D Experience
Imagine getting inside a two-dimensional picture, moving around in the space and seeing it from a different angle. That is the idea behind Fotowoosh, a revolutionary new digital tool…
POPcity, 5-9-2007
A New Dimension for Your Photos
Web service Fotowoosh wants to be the Flickr of 3-D.
Looking at the photo prints from your Washington, D.C., vacation can prompt memories of being at real, three-dimensional places like the Lincoln Memorial. But what if you could actually walk into your photograph…
MIT Technology Review, 4-27-2007
C|NET: Four brothers from Afghanistan founded the Web publishing company Freewebs. For them, free speech is a dire issue.…
USAToday, 4-27-2007
The Free-Speech Fundamentals of Freewebs
Shervin Pishevar believed he had to speak up.
At the D technology conference in San Diego last May, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel was explaining why his company turned over information that likely helped Chinese authorities sentence a journalist to 10 years in prison…
CNET, 4-26-2007
IN THE RACE TO CREATE contextual advertising that is equal parts relevant and inconspicuous, Cingular has partnered with the Silver Spring, MD-based Freewebs…
Online Media Daily, 4-26-2007
Transforming 2D photos into 3D models
Courtesy of StumbleUpon, I happened across an interesting service called Fotowoosh that purports to turn 2D photographs into 3D models. The demo is very cool…
Computerworld, 4-24-2007
Ask the Readers: Best Free Web Hosts?
Reader Jeremy wants a web site, and he wants it free:…
lifehacker, 4-17-2007
Advertiser Widgets Bump Into MySpace Roadblock
NEW YORK As part of its "Cingular sounds" campaign to sell ring tones, Cingular has tapped the latest social media ad trend: It developed a widget…
AdWeek, 4-16-2007
Fotowoosh Will Turn Any Picture Into A 3D Image
Fotowoosh, a new service from Maryland-based startup Freewebs, will turn any image (preferably an outdoor image) into a 3D model. They went live on Friday…
TechCrunch, 4-16-2007