Month: May 2010
BBC iPlayer – the big changes: Facebook, chat and cross-channel partnerships
Big changes to the iPlayer were announced today. Here are the three main ones. 1) Friends - there will be a tab for friends on the home page, where you can add in Friends from Facebook and Twitter. Incoporating BBC ID log-ins for Facebook. Each programme comes with a "Recommend to Friends" button. Does the…
Live-Blog: BBC iPlayer announcement
Director of Future Media at the BBC, Erik Huggers and developer Anthony Rose outline the ethos behind the iPlayer changes and tell us about what's coming up. The big changes - Facebook and Twitter integration and integration with Windows Messenger and links with other content platform. Live from now. 9.15 - why they launched the…
BBC iPlayer relaunch tomorrow – we'll be covering the exciting bits
News just in that the BBC are relaunching their iPlayer tomorrow with some exciting new features. One of the most popular sites on the internet, and the cause of approximately 10% of all web traffic in the UK, the iPlayer is big news and we look forward to seeing what they've got in store for…
Google AdSense – finally reveals who gets the money
Google finally coughed up a few stats on the mysterious topic of who makes money from Google AdSense. Well we all know Google does, but this cleared up the percentages and showed how the pie divides up: Revenue goes 68% to publishers for content ads, 51% for search ads. Google said they had decided to…
The Twitter march: a nice way to kill time and visualise twitter
If you like to pass time idly staring at your Twitter page, you can kill even more time by watching a cute pictorialisation of your Twitter page. Twitter Parade (isparade.jp) is a sweet Japanese website that takes your account, pictorialises you and your followers and displays them as a troop of merry stick men with…
Instant Messenging is not dead, it's just gone elsewhere..
Instant Messaging isn't dead - it's not even resting - but that doesn't stop people pronouncing the poor thing out for the count. The BBC reckoned here that the conversation has been terminated. Straight out, they've got a point of course - who goes on MSN or Yahoo chat these days? So fun in the…
Three offers cheapest iPad internet deal: 10gb for £15 a month
Three has slashed iPad internet costs by announcing their new £15/10gb data plans for the iPad. 1gb will cost £7.50. This beats the previous best offer we've seen - from Orange who offered 10gb on a £25 a month plan. An additional benefit is that all data plans will be available without a contract, providing…
It's Towel Day: how will you wear yours?
It's Geek Pride day and it's also Towel Day. It's Towel Day because this is the day Douglas Adams fans celebrate their love for the sci-fi authour and his book and wear a towel to show it. They wear a towel because of a passage at the beginning of HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy which…
Head to Head: how will Dell's Android-powered Streak match the iPad?
The iPad will have barely arrived in the UK market before Dell get an Android-powered 5 incher out into shops. The computer makers have just announced the Streak, a tablet that will be powered by Google's operating system and an HTC processor - the one that runs in HTC's latest Desire handset. Are we interested?…
Five things we'd miss about Bebo
Rumours are flying that Bebo, the social networking site beloved of tweens, is on the rocks. A buyer can't be found and the site might have to be closed. Founder Michael Birch sold Bebo in 2008 for 850 million dollars. Now it's seemingly worth a bit less than that. But I personally would be very…
