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online video
The definitive guide to watching the Olympics online
The folks who are bringing you the Olympics online don't actually want you to watch their coverage. NBC and Microsoft are delaying the most popular events by three hours so that it won't interfere with more profitable TV broadcasts. And you'll have to download Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in to watch in your browser. But a bird's nest of geography and time-delay restrictions worthy of China's Communist Party government is in place. Thankfully, the anarchy of the Web offers plenty of options for having a crowd of curious coworkers surround your computer as you watch live handball, with varying degrees of expense and difficulty. Rather than being the coming-out party for Silverlight Microsoft hopes for, it may instead be the year sports fans learn a few new online-video tricks. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by cainmark: @stevieQ @tdhurst What's with the OS hating? I've paid plenty for hardware and software, even paid for a program to work on linux... more » | Other threads
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death of print
Eric Schmidt laments lack of Iraq war coverage, while hiring away journalists
Google CEO Eric Schmidt stopped by Advertising Age's Madison and Vine conference last week, and proceeded to weep incredibly expensive tears over the fate of investigative journalism after Google helped eviscerate newspapers' business. "It's a tragedy for America," Schmidt declares before noting how few resources are going into reporting on the war in Iraq. "We'd spend a little more money to cover it, but our economic system doesn't justify that." Meanwhile, across the pond, Google hired away veteran BBC newsman Peter Barron of Newsnight for the company's public relations machine. Maybe Google will open a new PR bureau in Baghdad and send flacks to the front lines to cover the war. Would certainly be one way to improve Google News.
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By Jackson WestComment by Vulture: To point out the obvious: Schmidt is a douche, and one of the larger ones in this galaxy (I still... more » | Other threads
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Alan Blumlein
First 1934 stereo recordings restored
The BBC has an early video clip from EMI research engineer Alan Blumlein, who made a series of stereo recordings in the early 1930s after filing a patent for binaural sound technology. Blumlein early recordings include a stereo capture of the London Philharmonic rehearsing Mozart's Jupiter Symphony in 1934. The recordings have been digitally cleaned up to remove the aging effects of the 78 RPM phonographs on which they were stored. Blumlein was a prolific inventor, awarded 128 patents over the course of his life for everything from stereo phonographs to TV to reconnaissance radar. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by WagCurious: And to think 74 years later this is all we have to show for his work [www.totlol.org] more » | Other threads
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BBC Trust slams website's weak management
Think dealing with ADD-addled venture capitalists is bad? In the U.K., the operators of BBC.co.uk have to answer to something called the BBC Trust, charged with making sure BBC media "provides high quality output and good value for all U.K. citizens." The Trust's latest review says BBC.co.uk's "not sufficiently strong" management overspent its 2007 - 2008 budget by 48 percent, or $70.5 million. "This lack of financial accountability is not acceptable," reads the report, which also decrees BBC.co.uk's management has to be out by December. The Trust says the site needs more linking out, better search, better navigation and more caution with its investments. The report does not address our need for Little Britain torrents. -
your privacy is an illusion
The BBC creates a Facebook app to steal identities
In order to demonstrate how easy it would be for an malicious developer to create an application that steals private information from Facebook users, BBC television series Click created such an application themselves. Then they set up some spooky lighting and filmed a dude using two computers. "ID theft is a serious matter," the narrator intones. Check it out in the clip.
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Comment by Captain Angry: Oh my, it can collect something that ps already publicly available on peoples profiles. more » | Other threads
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online video
BBC rolls out absolutely useless streaming TV for iPhone
The paid-for-by-British-TV-owners BBC has rolled out an iPhone compatible version of its on-demand streaming video service, iPlayer. Neat, right? Yeah, kinda. It's Wi-Fi only and, oh yeah, available strictly in the U.K. What's the point of all that, then, if I can't watch new episodes of EastEnders?
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Comment by renaissancechambara: Suck it up, now you know how us Brits feel about Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Heroes, The Unit, 24... more » | Other threads
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dirk-willem van gulik
Ex-Joost CTO "an arrogant, condescending jerk," like most CTOs we know
Joost fired its former CTO, Dirk-Willem van Gulik, when it found out he was looking for a new job. Or he quit. Hard to tell. But according to a new tipster, one thing is clear: Many at Joost were glad to see him depart for a new job at the BBC. More »
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Comment by tacurran: Die Schadenfreude . It seems that the insidious organ rejection process at BBC began before the HR department could dry... more » | Other threads
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sex trade
BBC wants to know if you're getting any
After my first week reporting here, BBC Radio 5 Live interviewed me about Valley sex. Do "geek casanovas" (that's what they called you) have to pay for it? Listen to the archive of the broadcast or download through iTunes for my characteristically delicate response.
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Comment by franky: @TechMerkin, And I were going to throw in a pity-joke about how Vw, no reference to any German car brand since... more » | Other threads
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Fired Joost CTO already had new gig lined up
Joost fired its CTO, Dirk-Willem van Gulik, a company flack told NewTeeVee. For a replacement, the Web TV service named Comcast's Matt Zelesko to be the company's senior vice president of engineering. Here's the weird part, though: van Gulik already has a new job. More »
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Comment by anonym00se: I can't claim to know for sure why he was fired, but having had dealings with van Gulik in the... more » | Other threads
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linden lab
Philip Rosedale, master of damage control
Just when things turn bleak for Second Life maker Linden Lab — CTO Cory Ondrejka recently "left" the company — CEO Philip Rosedale manages to pull a fluff piece out of the BBC. He's previously denied he has anything to do with timing these media wet kisses, but we're skeptical. Perhaps it's his boyish charm and ability to spin numbers — or the fact that these media outlets are easily impressed by the whizzes and bangs of virtual worlds. More »
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Comment by ram.perpe: Sadly this seems to be the last nail in the second life adventure coffin, As much as I grumbled on... more » | Other threads
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online video
Everyone's doing the Hulu
Afraid of being left in the stuffy, old-fashioned world of channel-hosted Web videos, the BBC is teaming up with rival U.K. broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 to develop their own multibrand TV destination. The model is Hulu, News Corp. and NBC's joint venture, which operates as a showcase for its partners' content as well as distributing it to other Web-video sites. The new British "aggregator," which will launch sometime in 2008, will offer content in a variety of formats, including free download, streaming, rental and purchase.
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Comment by guhd: Kangaroo is very different to Hulu in many ways. Its not just a webshite for one. They're hoping the major... more » | Other threads
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online advertising
Above-it-all BBC to put ads on website
Who needs subscriptions? The U.K. public pays a mandatorylicense feetax to fund the British Broadcasting Corporation. As a result, BBC TV, radio and websites are generally advertising-free. Now, the BBC Trust, the board overseeing the Beeb's operations, has approved a plan to put ads on BBC webpages for international readers. Apparently, users "did not express a strong objection" to advertising. How very commercial of them. (Photo by AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Comment by Owen Thomas: @jlgolson: No, just that you'll sound more intelligent if you cite a source other than Wikipedia, as Wikipedia itself would... more » | Other threads
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online video
The Beeb to team up with Xbox 360?
There's a new battleground for digitally ditributed content brewing in the most unlikeliest of places — home videogame consoles. Last week there was the rather shocking announcement that Sony's PlayStation 3 would soon be home to movie and television content. Not to be outdone, Microsoft's Xbox 360, which has had video content downloads since last November, is now courting the BBC and all of its TV shows and HD programming. While the soothing tones of the BBC are not usually what we associate with xBox, the deal, which Microsoft is "working diligently on," would add some much needed gravitas to a portfolio currently dominated by South Park and UFC Fights. -
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BBC gets schooled by videogames
Simon Nelson, the BBC's new-media guru, is delivering a keynote at next week's Edinburgh Interactive Games Festival. His speech, as described in the official literature, is why "the [BBC] had something to learn from games and how games will figure in the Beeb's new media folio in the future." The Internet interpreted this as a pending announcement of a BBC videogame strategy — the rumor strengthened by BBC's current portfolio of downloadable games based on its TV shows. And it's not like it would be that strange. Even the New York Times has started using newsgames to illustrate everything from the oil crisis to the E. coli outbreak. But the BBC is now denying everything. More's the pity. More » -
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The race to roll-up video content
We obviously spoke too soon when calling video tech jobs the object of the online video gold rush. Content deals are where it's at. Big fish like Viacom are going to Joost, while singing their own praises in terms of pushing internal video. Joost in turn is pursuing moderate players like JumpTV. Not to be outdone, Google has signed up the BBC for Youtube, even while it pursues a host of littler deals (and we enjoy how the New York Times likens the NBA to a "smaller media company"). So if you have some video content lying around that no one is bothering to pirate anyway, why not cash in with a little Youtube money? It's a seller's market, at least for the next 30 days or so. -
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Google Motto: "Don't Be Evil, Now "Don't Be Stealing"
BBC News reports on Google being called before British Parliament to discuss online its policy on online copyrights in leiu of the still pending acquisition of youTube. Google Europe vice-president Nikesh Arora told MPs his company would not tolerate copyright violations. More » -
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How journalism works: A word is worth a thousand words
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Fake Guy Kewney not a cabbie, not that cool
In a disappointing little update to the "BBC mistakes cabbie for IT expert" story, it's come out that the bewildered man mistaken for IT expert Guy Kewney — and then mistakenly interviewed on live TV — is IT expert Guy Goma. According to Kewney, Goma is not a cabbie but a business studies grad who was at the Beeb applying for a high-level IT job. More » -
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The IT-expert cabbie
In case you didn't see the video this weekend: A cabbie being mistaken for an IT journalist in the wake of the Apple vs. Apple decision. Here, the BBC interviews an unwitting taxi driver, thinking he's tech expert Guy Kewney. The cabbie gives one look of shock ("face of horror" on the transcript) and then decides to fake it. More » -
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Apparently this "blogging" thing is big
Oh BBC, aren't you above this sort of thing? Not just running a four-year-late trend story on blogs' influence — "The impact of blogging has reached a tipping point, argues Julian Smith, senior analyst at Jupiter Research" — but tying it to the recent We Media conference. More » -
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And in his trendy glasses were reflected hordes of demons
Are we back to sniping Bill Gates with press photos again? Through his career at Microsoft, coverage of Gates moved from "Nerdy young Gates" to "Lurking evil Gates," softening to "Old and feeble Gates," before honoring him as "Wise and wizened elder statesman Gates." But with one little defeat for Microsoft in Europe, the BBC picks its favorite AFP photo: "Shrieking crypt-keeper Gates." More »
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By ndouglasComment by Dimitar Vesselinov: The young Eric Schmidt http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/04/17/googles_eric_... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=736568242160902053... more » | Other threads
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Mission Accomplished
The BBC is so witty, the writers coordinate gotchas with the photo captioners. More »
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