Category: Internet
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Taking Your Twitter Followers With You
A few weeks ago, Matt Deegan wrote an excellent piece about radio and usage of, and infatuation with Twitter. He argued cogently on many aspects of stations’ use of Twitter. But towards the end of his piece he raised a question that I’m sure many stations think about depending on how their presenters are using…
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Keep An Eye on the FT
Anyone with any sense in publishing will be watching very carefully what the FT is doing. They’ve decided to forgo platform-specific apps, sold through app-stores, and instead produce a compelling, HTML5 compliant mobile-oriented website. OK – they’re not actually dumping their apps. But they are actively trying to persuade their readers to go direct. And…
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iCloud Cuckoo Land*
As regular readers will know, I’m a frustrated iTunes user. So what should I make of Apple’s announcements yesterday – in particular those associated with iCloud? I tend to still buy quite a lot of music on CD, if for no other reason than you get nice album covers and booklets to look at. It’s…
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iTunes Woes – When Consolidate Breaks
This is a bit of a plea. Any solutions welcome… I have a big iTunes library. It’s something like 250GB because I keep certain old podcasts, have lots of music (ripped at high bit-rates), quite a few audiobooks (also in high quality) and now have a few films (mainly from “triple play” DVD/BluRay/digital sets). Anyway…
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What Do I Do With My Music?
I’m facing a dilemma. I’m wondering whether I should ditch Apple for my music needs… Here’s where I am, as Duncan Bannatyne might say: I use iTunes to manage my music and audio. I have over 160GB of music/audio. Partly because I have a “reasonable” amount of music; partly because I rip that music at…
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Serendipity Redux
No, not a very poor film in John Cusack’s ouevre. noun the occurance and development of events by chance in a happy and beneficial way I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. This is something that sadly the internet is not able to deal with effectively in certain areas. I’m going to talk…
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Searching Myself
That sounds quite philosophical doesn’t it? Well it isn’t. Earlier today, I just wanted to check whether I’d previously commented on something in Twitter. All I needed to do was doublecheck my Twitter feed and I’d be away. Except that it would have been about a year ago. And Twitter’s river of tweets doesn’t really…
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Groupon’s Having a Laugh!
A report in the New York Times recently revealed that Groupon, the social buying site, is looking at generating $15bn in a prospective IPO. We’re surely back in internet bubble days with valuations like that! If Facebook’s valuation of $50bn is questionable, then it’s surely not even remotely credible that a business built around coupons…
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HTC Desire – Initial Thoughts
I’ve got a new phone, and it runs Google’s Android OS which is a first for me. It’s an HTC Desire, and I’ve had it less than 24 hours. So these are just some intital thoughts. I previously used the company’s Nexus One phone, and essentially this is the same phone as Google’s own phone.…
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BBC Mobile Apps On Hold
Today comes news that the BBC has had to delay its mobile phone applications until the BBC Trust has taken a close look at what it’s doing. That obviously includes iPhone apps, but other operating systems are available, and the BBC was developing for them too. The announcement that the BBC was developing applications came…
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Spotify Making Money?
Yesterday’s Observer had an interesting piece on Spotify that included a little more substance about whether or not Spotify is making money. I tried to find out as much as I could about Spotify ahead of Radio at the Edge a few weeks ago, and put everything I determine into a short video. As I…
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Radio at the Edge – Factoid Videos
Yesterday I was at the excellent Radio at the Edge conference 2009 (my notes are here). My major contribution to the conference was a series of “factoid” videos introducing different sessions. If you were there and the statistics flashed by too fast, then I’ve put them on YouTube. My “ecelctic” music choices also saw some…
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Why Can’t I Download A Film and Burn It To DVD?
As Peter Mandelson continues to show us that he completely misunderstands the nature of the internet, a general failing of “content-owners” can be seen when you try to do something very simple that you should be able to do in this day and age but can’t. At the weekend I thought I’d try to get…