Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> GBP20m ITV website revamp
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> | "Some are already streaming their channels, some are providing catch-up
> | and some building their archive, but ITV.com will provide all three."
> |
> | The unveiling of the service comes after final plans for a new service,
> | the BBC iPlayer, providing programmes on demand were announced by the
> | BBC Trust yesterday.
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>
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/technology/s/1005/1005955_20m_itv_website_revamp.html?rss=yes
>
> Joost opens online video service
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Joost, the on-demand online video service backed by the founders
> | of Skype, has launched commercially.
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>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6612199.stm
>
> YouTube fights Viacom legal bid
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Google has asked a US court to dismiss a $1bn (GBP500m) copyright
> | action from entertainment giant Viacom Media, saying it is
> | a threat to the internet.
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>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6613931.stm
>
> There's a conspiracy theory which says that several media companies get
> togethertry to kill Internet video because it take away from their
> revenue. They already kill Internet radio.
>
>
> Related:
>
> Joost for Linux -- Amazing PR response...
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Thanks for your interest in Joost. Yes, a Linux version is planned,
> | but the timeline for that is TBD right now.
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>
http://www.theantiblogger.com/technology/joost-for-linux-amazing-pr-response/
>
>
> Corporate Fight Against Open Source
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Remember during the Dot Com boom when sites used to display which
> | browser you should use in order to best utilize their website?
> | Quaint, annoying and even a little narrow minded. Those of us who
> | have been yearning for a blast from the past will be thrilled to
> | learn that Wal-Mart is apparently doing this in the year 2007.
> | Wait, it gets better...
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>
>
http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2468&Itemid=449
>
>
> BBC plans to lock viewers into Microsoft monopoly says Open Source
> Consortium
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The Open Source Consortium (OSC) believes the plans are anti-competitive
> | and will use public money to lock viewers into the technologies of
> | a repeatedly convicted monopolist.
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> http://www.publictechnology.net/article_avantgo.php?sid=7655
>
>
> Beeb slammed for 'fawning' to Bill Gates
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | BBC viewers have flooded the corporation with complaints over how it
> | covered the launch of Microsoft Vista earlier this week.
> |
> | In one cringingly servile interview worthy of Uriah Heep, the
> | Beeb's news presenter Hugh Edwards even thanked Gates at the
> | end of it, presumably in appreciation at being allowed to give
> | the Vole vast coverage for free.
> |
> | In other TV news items presenters excitedly explained how Vistac
> | ould be obtained and installed - details courtesy of the BBC's
> | website.
> |
> | But British viewers, currently forced to pay a Â131.50 licence
> | fee to maintain the BBC's "impartiality", were less than impressed.
> |
> | Scores got in touch to complain that so much was Auntie up Bill's
> | bum that you could barely see her corset.
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>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411
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>
> http://slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias
>
>
> Brits! Act now to save the BBC from Microsoft
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The BBC are holding an open consultation regarding how they're
> | going to delivery on-demand content, they want answers to
> | questions like: "How important is it that the proposed seven-day
> | catch-up service over the internet is available to consumers who
> | are not using Microsoft software?"
> `----
>
> http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/31/brits_act_now_to_sav.html
>
>
> Beeb breaks out with Windows WMA protection
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | According to a press release from Sonos, the blokes over
> | at the Beeb have decided to jump ship for relying on
> | Realplayer for web content, and have switched over
> | entirely to the Windows-friendly WMA format. Now
> | that the BBC has made The Big Switch, BBC radio
> | stations will be received automatically for users
> | of wireless music and radio provider Sonos.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35282
>
>
> BBC Looks To Microsoft For Web 2.0
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | However, you don't sign deals or commitments if you're a
> | quasi-autonomous Public Corporation operating as a public service
> | broadcaster, as the BBC is. BBC Director General Mark Thompson met
> | Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in Seattle on Wednesday to sign the
> | non-exclusive memorandum of understanding and discuss the BBC's digital
> | strategy.
> `----
>
>
http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/28/bbc-microsoft-internet-cx_cn_0928bbc.html?partner=yahootix
> http://tinyurl.com/j5pn7
I watch more TV and other entertainment online than I do on the TV. It's
great, not only things like the news, but I watched many a program on
youtube and others, usually split into 15 to 20 minute videos, but very
watchable. But more, for my tastes anyway, various science things that
would never make it onto the TV. You get school and college lecturers
making videos of their science lesson, I love those things, teachers make
natural presenters, comes with the job I suppose.
Bet you didn't know you can generate power with four buckets and some water
or that you can make 3d shapes out of a bit of (forgot what the stuff was,
but it was just a sort of powder) and some vibrations, I had a go in the
bath but it doesn't work with talc. Actually as I watched I remembered a
school science teacher from when I was a kid say that possibly the only
thing holding any solid together is vibration and movement, I didn't
understand that and thought it was pure tosh. But he might be right.
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