Category: Internet

Today’s Media Guardian reports how Alexa is now showing YouTube as having overtaken MySpace (note to self: when you create your Web 2.0, or even 3.0, company, ensure that it’s two words with no space and two capitals – it’s the law). I’m sure it’s fantastic news for YouTube, a bit like the way that…

Last week MSN released a report entitled Blogging in Britain (PDF via The Daily Telegraph) which is all very interesting and supplies lots of hard and fast numbers which I’m using for a work project. But whoever worked on the presentation of the stats in the report really needs to go back to school and…

A fascinating piece on copyright issues in The Hollywood Reporter (via TV Squad) following on from Newsnight the other day. There are a couple of questions I’ve got after reading this piece: First, YouTube’s 10-minute clip limit and tiny video window cater to clip culture, not pirates. Well yes, but it may be a tiny…

A very interesting comment piece by Daniel Pearl, deputy editor of Newsnight on what I consider to be the fatal flaw with the business model of sites like YouTube.

A picture in today’s Times shows a tangle of cables as David Baddiel and Frank Skinner recorded their first World Cup podcast (a separate website incidentally). I wish that amidst all the kit, someone had spent a little time normalising the audio. The level of the first recording is really low. With the volume at…

Office workers of the UK are rejoicing. In a pair of announcments, the BBC has revealed that it’ll be simulcasting all its live World Cup games on the internet. To UK viewers only of course. They’ll also be providing the full interactive option for Wimbledon too. Fantastic. Nobody will get any work done in the…

I’ve played around quite a bit with VOIP but thus far, I’ve not really embraced it. A while back I mentioned that I’d seen Tesco selling cheapish phones accompanying their own VOIP service. Today I crossed over to the darkside and went into Tesco where I noticed a sign that suggested that the phones had…

Just like playground crazes of yesterday and favourite toys that nobody can get hold of at Christmas, we are now forever likely to be stuck with knowing about the latest flavour-of-the-month social website. The latest of these is Bebo.com, which The Guardian reported the other day, as muscling in on MySpace. No, I hadn’t heard…

Here’s an interesting post (via Waxy) about YouTube from someone who’s fed up of having his videos deleted because they’re copyright. To be honest, I’m not surprised, and the author probably has no real grounds to complain. These video services are treading a very fine line, and frankly are lawsuits waiting to happen if they’re…

Well I had a very scary experience over the last 24 hours. No, not going through the pain that is watching Arsenal scrape through a very tricky tie to go through to the Champions’ League Final in Paris on May 17 (any offers of tickets most welcome). I went through an upgrade process to get…

What is it about some companies that means that even the smallest new product launch or enhancement generates widespread coverage in the media? This week is an excellent case in point. Apple have announced some price cuts for their iPod Shuffles and the introduction of a 1GB iPod Nano. Lovely. Meanwhile Google’s upgraded their Google…

I’m sure that all that needs to be said has already been said about Google’s decision to censor their own offering. I suppose I find it sad that even one of the biggest companies on the planet with unparralleled power in the supply of information, still feels that it needs to bend over and do…

According to a report from Continental Research, as published in Campaign magazine, one in ten adults watches television on the internet. Really? Already? Maybe “has watched”, but “watches” implies they do it regularly. Unless you want to catch up on last night’s Newsnight, or are engaged in downloading via bittorrent (both reasonably marginal activities still),…