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This little gem holds some great potential for linking to .tel domains across social networks:
New updates to the telhosting interface allow you to:
Oliver Humpage, Watershed’s ICT Co-ordinator explains how Watershed.tel works. Launched this week, watershed.tel is a strong example of how a .tel domain can be used for near real-time communication in a simple-to- access format. Bristol-based Watershed Media Centre has 3 cinema screens, several events spaces and a Café/Bar, and has lots of events both film and not film.
“Watershed opened in 1982 as Britain’s first dedicated Media Centre – that is, concentrating on photography and the moving image. Watershed’s strength is its ability to mix up creativity, learning, R&D and business in ways which benefit everyone. ”
“The internet is a vital part of Watershed’s activities. We started experimenting with online content in 1999 (we got a symmetric 10Mb internet connection, well before broadband was widespread), and we were one of the first places in Bristol to offer completely free wireless access in our Café/Bar. ”
“As a result of these early experiments we concentrated more and more on online artwork and activities, until we reached a point around 2004 where we made a conscious decision to stop having “traditional” exhibitions in the building at all. http://dshed.net is our online showcase, which is currently undergoing a major redevelopment to help it cope with the sheer quantity of creative output it’s trying to display. ”
“Watershed is a rarity in the arts world, having a relatively large IT department and managing as much IT as possible in-house. This gives us the knowledge and flexibility to experiment with new technologies. A large part of being a successful IT dept relies on having the time and skills available to do R&D, coupled with an underlying recognition that technology is there to help people communicate more easily and more effectively. ” Read more…
Samuel Voet, internet entrepreneur from Belgium is the creator and owner of cancel.tel, a free but invaluable service for people who have to cancel their credit cards. Extremely accessible from a simple word over mobile devices, cancel.tel enables people to quickly navigate to the right credit card company and click to communicate with them – a fantastically simple solution to an emotionally-charged action no one likes to perform.
“At first when .tel launched I was looking for interesting names and while trying to understand what .tel could be used for and what it was all about I registered a few names. Some are very good and will find their usage in the future. Cancel.tel is something different. I didn’t even register that name during the first day of .tel going public, but when I noticed it after a few days for some reason it caught my attention.
“People use their phones to take care of business, so then I tried to find a link between the domain cancel.tel and how this could be used in a good way with the .tel platform. I am convinced that .tel has a lot of power and could mean something important in the age of mobile telephones. Of course, you have the directory-style applications on things like realestate.tel and phonebook.tel, and it allows a great form of branding for companies and celebrities. If .tel becomes more important in the future it will have a significant amount of value for people and companies. Cancel.tel is a bit different from all those things. It doesn’t promote anything, but I decided to turn it into a service instead. Read more…
“Hi Oprah. Love your show. This domain is yours – for free. Just can’t get to contact you to tell you. The guy that owns OPRAH.TEL probably wants to sell it to you for a million bucks. Not me – this is yours.” promoting.tel | oprahs.tel
