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BBC online video download service launches

Popular programmes on the BBC can be downloaded, BBC News reports here: The BBC’s flagship online TV service is being launched, offering viewers the chance to download their favourite programmes from the last seven days.

Pictures from Panama

Please check out our new website PTY4U.com - Pictures from Panama, with tons of slide shows, honoring the abundance of beauty of to be discovered in Panama and let us know how you like it.

The Top Webby Award Winners

Webby winners you probably missed, never mind Flickr and YouTube. Here are some Webby Award winners you may not have heard of. Check them out on this page at News.com.

Putting The World’s Books On The Web

Spiegel Online reports here: Two years ago Google, the Internet search firm, began scanning hundreds of thousands of books and making their contents available on the Web. Could this signal the end of libraries as we know them?

BBC to Broadcast via YouTube

Siegel Online reports here: The BBC and YouTube have agreed to a new media partnership, which will make BBC content available on the video-sharing Web site.

Number Ten Downing Street

BBC News reports here: "Number Ten Downing Street has opened its famous front door to the public after more than 270 years, with a virtual tour for web users." You can visit the Number Ten Downing Street virtual tour here.

Mozart’s entire musical score now free on Net

Reuters reports here at News.com: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s year-long 250th birthday party is ending on a high note with the musical scores of his complete works available from Monday for the first time free on the Internet. The International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, has put a scholarly edition of the bound volumes of Mozart’s [...]

Charles Darwin’s Works Online

The complete works of one of history’s greatest scientists, Charles Darwin, are being published online. The site currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts. Charles Darwin’s works can bee seen at:  darwin-online.org.uk .

Casting Net For Better Airfares

Wired News reports here:  New websites claim to find the best airfares by mining airfare data and and reversing carriers’ own profit-maximizing algorithms.