Category: Internet
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BBC Websites
I’ve got to say that I’m somewhat disappointed by the current state of play of some of the BBC’s websites. In particular, their main BBC1 and BBC2 homepages, and the BBC Radio homepage. Let’s start with a specific example. BBC2 has a new series called Are We There Yet presented by ex-Panorama reporter John Ware.…
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MySpace
We all know that MySpace is rubbish, but I hadn’t realised, until I went to play with it, just quite how rubbish it is. Considering its popularity, you might think that they’d make the damned thing a teeny bit user friendly. You’re stuck with default sections and to do anything neat at all, you have…
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DRM Again
A bit more on DRM. Sorry. It’s interesting that at about the same time as Steve Jobs becomes a sudden convert to going DRM-free, the BBC Trust reports back its conclusions to the BBC’s on-demand proposals and in particular the iPlayer. One of the key things they want the BBC to ensure is that DRMd…
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How Many Video Players On A Single Page Can You Get?
Well? The answer according to the new-look mirror.co.uk is three! One on the left, one on the right, and a big one in the middle! A word of advice – don’t try playing them all at once. The planets get into alignment or something and bad things happen… Roy Greenslade at Mediaguardian shares his thoughts…
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A Hypothetical YouTube Case
YouTube, it’s reported, is working on an advertising revenue sharing mechanism that rewards creativity and generates cold hard cash for people who include advertising in their videos. The offer applies only to people who own the full copyright of the videos that they are uploading to the YouTube website. Right. But surely they’re not suggesting…
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TV On The Internet
As this week’s BBC >Click show gets excited by the growth of TV torrenting, legal alternatives are finally presenting themselves. The BBC is all ready to roll (I was a beta-tester back in 2005, although somehow failed to blog about it), but is having to go through a public value test. Ofcom last week published…
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Words and Phrases I’m Really Fed Up With
It’s not that there aren’t some fine sites that utilise some of the following; but the words and phrases themselves are so over-used that tedium sets in when I read them. To put this in context I read a trade story about the Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards). It explained that as…
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Bush TR2015WIFI Wi-Fi Radio
I thought I’d write a brief review of the recently released Bush Wi-Fi radio. With the growing number of home networks being set up, this has to be a growth area for radio, and I’ve only really been waiting for prices to fall far enough to buy one. This particular model can be purchased at…
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Five’s Download Service
Five’s TV download service has been working for a few weeks now, offering downloads of the various CSI flavours. For some reason the service is being heavily advertised in the marketing trade press. Indeed, I thought that maybe they’d put a free episode up for trial such is their current press spend. But no, it’s…
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Inside Look At Google/YouTube Deal
Fascinating insight into the recent Google/YouTube machinations from an anonymous insider posted at Mark Cuban’s blog (via Waxy).
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More Illegal Clips on YouTube
Following on from the FA the other day, Media Guardian today reports that a rights protection company called NetResult has got YouTube to remove over 1,000 clips for copyright violation. The article goes onto report that NetResult believes that there are “as many as 10,000 more illegal clips on the website.” Right. I think they’ll…
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Footie on YouTube
The latest company looking at copyright violations on YouTube seems to be the FA. Unsurprisingly, along with any music video of any note, most of the key goals from around the world and other football incidents (Defoe’s arm chewing for example), quickly find their way onto YouTube. All this is copyright of course, with Sky…
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Google Gadgets
Just testing the embedding of Google gadgets into webpages.