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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:08:33 +0100 Some watchers encouraged overdoseThe Florida teen whose lethal drug overdose was broadcast live over the net earlier this week began blogging about his intended suicide 12 hours before.… Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:39:46 +0100 88 domain names, admin tools, provisional patent, and more!In the summer of 2006, at the height of the digerati's Web 2.0 frenzy, social networking startup Kiko.com sold itself on eBay. The share-your-appointments-with-the-world online calendar extravaganza was pulling in exactly zero dollars a month. But after a flurry of late bidding, eBayers decided it was worth $258,100.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:11:21 +0100 Metaphor swallows Man
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:47:47 +0100 Sad end for Florida teenA US teenager has used a video sharing website to broadcast his suicide live across the internet.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:10:49 +0100 Fails public value testThe BBC Trust has rejected the broadcaster's plans to set up local video news sites for different areas of the country.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:42:31 +0100 No sack for Ross, thoughThe BBC Trust has branded the Brand/Ross Manuelgate outrage a "deplorable intrusion with no editorial justification".… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:38:50 +0100 This will only take a secondAnalysis Put yourself in these hypothetical shoes for a moment. My goal is to make as much money as possible by doing as little work as possible. I have no creative talent except for generating and recycling marketing buzzwords. I have no technical knowledge or ability - but I can get my head around a Twitter feed. It doesn't sound promising, but you'll want in, I promise.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:18:38 +0100 Look familiar?Microsoft released the anticipated face-lift for its Xbox 360 game console and online service today, dubbed the New Xbox Experience (or NXE).… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:40:40 +0100 The music machine rolls onUnlicensed music distributor Baidu has admitted taking money from unlicensed medical companies.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:54:37 +0100 TV licence requiredViewers in the UK will be offered broadcasts of BBC One and Two live online from 27 November, the BBC said today.… Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:23:59 +0100 'A very serious editorial lapse', admits director generalMPs at a meeting of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee have been giving BBC bosses a bit of a hard time over the Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross Manuelgate scandal, the corporation reports.… Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:13:13 +0100 Guest opinion Hope is all you need
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:47:33 +0100 'Anonymization' - a word with no meaningWhen unveiling its search-data-driven Flu Trends modeler earlier this week, Google insisted it could never be used to identify the web habits of individual people. Flu Trends, the company said, uses nothing but "anonymized" data.… Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:13:31 +0100 Online affairs bust real-world marriageA British woman is divorcing her husband after catching his Second Life avatar having cybersex with other virtual women.… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:38:27 +0100 'Good evening, friends, Tron guy, Star Wars kid, sneezing panda...'US President-elect Barack Obama plans to use YouTube to modernize the traditional White House weekly radio address.… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:11:02 +0100 Rewriting history as it happens...On the 6th of November the BBC announced to an astonished world that "People 'can't wait for ID cards'. Breathlessly repeating the words of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's speech that morning, Auntie reported: "I believe there is a demand, now, for cards - and as I go round the country I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don't want to wait that long."… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:54:56 +0100 Noises in head punishment enough?The US blogger arrested for uploading tracks from Chinese Democracy, the long-awaited Guns N'Roses/Axl Rose album, is not likely to serve prison time.… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:46:23 +0100 The revolution will not be auctionedeBay has agreed to ban ticket sales for US President-elect Barack Obama's upcoming inauguration ceremony on its websites.… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:39:55 +0100 Buy your way to the topIn its ongoing struggle to actually make money from YouTube, Google has shoehorned its ridiculously-successful search advertising setup into the popular post-your-own-video site.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:19:54 +0100 Explaining the inexplicableMicrosoft wants you to know that its Live Search bribery program has seen "positive traction," claiming that searchified cashback offers have resulted in a significant return on investment for its advertisers. The question is whether Microsoft will ever see ROI for itself.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:20:36 +0100 Wall Street ignorant of Mountain View money machineGoogle's share price has dipped below $300 for the first time in three years, after some Wall Street guessmen decided the ad broker's revenues are on the wane.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:02:04 +0100 New Media: It's in your earHere's a conundrum. Top Media People want to come out of the shadows and get "closer to their listeners" - it's what the Web 2.0 people urge them to do. BBC people in particular are obsessed with being seen to be bossy or "out-of-touch" - especially since three out of four license payers have a gripe with the corporation.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:57:10 +0100 World Cup cheat unsearchableFollowing a judge's temporary restraining order, Yahoo! Argentina has blocked all web searches for the country's most famous son: notorious football cheat Diego Maradona.… Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:25:36 +0100 'There is only one Batman in the world'The mayor of Batman, Turkey, is suing Warner Bros. and The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan for using the Cape Crusader's name without the city's permission.… Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:27:06 +0100 Resurrect 'the great communicator'A savvy online campaign by Barrack Obama and the Democrats is at least partly responsible for enabling last week's landslide victory in the US presidential election.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:27:11 +0100 Extends exercise in futilityAs part of its ongoing effort to shrink the Google gap with shameless bribery, Microsoft is now offering 25 per cent off eBay purchases made by way of its Live Search engine.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:48:29 +0100 Silences former member of church's 'secret army'Amazon UK has barred the sale of a new Scientology exposé penned by a former member of the church's "elite paramilitary group."… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:17:02 +0100 November rains on cuffed US manThe 27-year-old American blogger who was arrested by the FBI in August for leaking some unreleased Guns N' Roses tunes to the interweb has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to one federal count of copyright infringement.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:11:17 +0100 The lion meows tonightYouTube's position that full-length features have no place on the website is now nothing but a memory.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:22:43 +0100 Joey'd itAfter just four months in charge of web TV joint venture Project Kangaroo, ex-BBC tech chief Ashley Highfield has quit for a new job at Microsoft UK.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:25:26 +0100 A Freeview moment for digital radio?Parliament may need to step in with new legislation, to save the digital radio fail whale OFCOM admitted today.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:32:13 +0100 Report says firm has iced MP3 playerDell is reportedly ditching plans to launch its digital music player tied to online entertainment software before Christmas. In fact it could be shelving the MP3 warbler indefinitely.… Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:07:10 +0100 Wired's advice could seriously damage your businessExclusive The most comprehensive empirical study of digital music sales ever conducted has some bad news for Californian technology utopians. Since 2004, WiReD magazine editor Chris Anderson has been hawking his "Long Tail" proposition around the world: blockbusters will matter less, and businesses will "sell less of more". The graph has become iconic - a kind of 'Hockey Stick' for Web 2.0 - with the author applying his message to many different business sectors. Alas, following the WiReD Way of Business as a matter of faith could be catastrophic for your business and investment decisions.… Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:42:28 +0100 But the company's considering itMySpace may launch a branded MP3 player in the future, the social networking website’s co-founder has revealed. But not right now.… Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:02:27 +0100 But not in the way you think...Blog front pages are now large pages of images and scripts rather than the pared-down text pages of old.… Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:03:50 +0100 Compatible with Red Book CD standardSony failed to tune the masses into its better-than-Compact-Disc format, Super Audio CD, so it's having another go, this time with technology derived from Blu-ray Disc.… Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:08:15 +0100 Calls for 'less and better targeted aid'The European Commission has opened a period of consultation on its proposals to change the rules governing state aid handed to broadcasters.… Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:21:59 +0100 Completing the set of terrestrial broadcastersChannel Five will arrive on free-to-air satellite broadcasting network Freesat in a couple of weeks.… Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:26:46 +0100 Virgin Media drops legal handbagA contract feud between Virgin Media and Sky has ended today with a new deal that will see the return of Sky's basic channels to cable.… Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:07:11 +0100 ISP must filter, just later, SABAM saysThe Belgian music royalties collecting society SABAM has denied reports that a judge last week binned a landmark decision forcing an ISP to block unlicenced file sharing.… Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:28:49 +0100 Carrots - milk - entire EMI catalogueSupermarket chain Sainsbury's is amongst the retailers who'll be offering you a £99 a year unlimited music service that lets you keep the DRM-free songs you download.… Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:21:16 +0100 Lining up the ducksExclusive What happens when you put three economists from the internet, telecomms, and the music businesses in a room and don't let them out until they've agreed on something useful?… Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:23:57 +0100 Will you still need me when I'm 64-bit?MTV and Apple Corps, the Beatles' licensing company, have put together a deal to bring the music of the Fab Four into a play-along video game.… Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:50:08 +0100 'Wronged youth' gets high speed airbrushingGovernment advice about being careful what you post on the web may have come just a little too late for Andrew Sachs’ granddaughter, Georgina Baillie – aka Voluptua, the goth vampire stripper. The same advice might also have been helpful to the pictures desk over at the Daily Mail, which along with Ms Baillie has been indulging in a flurry of online back-tracking over the last couple of days.… Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:17:02 +0100 If you love Russell Brand so much why don't you go and live there?The BBC's "Have Your Say" online comment forum briefly collapsed this afternoon as the entire population of Britain sought to express HOW INCREDIBE ANGRGY it was about those men being mean to Manuel off Fawlty Towers.… Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:47:55 +0100 Will sell scanned worksGoogle has agreed to pay $125m to settle a three-year-old class action lawsuit that accused the ad broker of infringing publisher and author copyrights with its library-digitizing Book Search project.… Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:39:53 +0100 'So here it isn't, merry Christmas...'The BBC has decided to can the traditional Top of the Pops Christmas Special in favour of eight "special" episodes of the archive spin-off TOTP2, the festive fun-busting corporation reports.… Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:36:07 +0100 Dual tuners, 320GB HDD on boardHumax is to release its long-awaited Freesat-branded HD-capable DVR next month.… Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:21:29 +0100 And incredible shrinking businessA report by Maltby Capital, the company created to acquire and run EMI, reveals that the British music giant is still spending money like a drunken sailor. A highlight of the out-of-control budget was £700,000 spent with just one London taxi firm.… Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:06:53 +0100 UK Music sets sailThe Monday morning after the clocks go back traditionally brings us very little cheer, but here's one piece of good news - you'll be seeing less of Sir Cliff Richard in the future.… |
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