I thought I’d treat myself to a Sushi lunch from Pret before a meeting on Wednesday. Bad idea, because during my meeting I developed the…
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Jeremy Zawodny (of Yahoo!) has referenced an Intelliseek investigation into the most popular News-related links from blogs. It turns out that BBC News is the…
One CommentThe BBC has launched “Popular and New”, perhaps what the homepage should really be? Looks very interesting, and certainly an interesting mine of information –…
One CommentOrange, and probably all other mobile phone service providers, seem to be able to charge you for expensive content without any real proof – or…
One CommentNetcraft are reporting that the Lycos Screensaver I wrote about a few days ago has started to bring down servers as intended (and expected). So,…
2 CommentsAccording to the BBC, the Chinese government is blocking access to all versions of Google News other than the Chinese version. (As you will know,…
2 CommentsAs regulars will know, I’m not afraid of rubbing up my colleagues in BBC News Interactive AV the wrong way… (cough cough) So, with that…
Comments closedLycos have released a screensaver that will flood the urls used by spammers to sell their wares. Effectively what Lycos are setting up here is…
Comments closed(Direct link to the paper in pdf) Or as my colleague Jo Twist @ BBC is putting it, “could the eBay trust model be adapted…
Comments closedMy neighbour (who I?ll call Tom) asked me whether I had Digital TV – he didn?t know anything about it and wanted to know more about it. And few weeks ago, I spent a couple of days with my parents in the family home ? despite owning a Freeview box, they don?t seem to use it at all.
With only 50% of UK homes having Digital TV, these two events started to make me think about what is wrong with Digital TV and why people simply aren?t getting it.
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