Sunday, November 26, 2006
I had to go to dictionary.com after reading this article.
My first thought was “bombastic” but that wasn’t quite right, so I tried “pretentious” but still not quite the word for what I was reading.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Click here for the only information I could find on this, having heard about it on the radio tonight. The BBC has released the latest series of Doctor Who on a DVD it describes as the World’s first that is fully accessible, meaning that it has audio menus for everything, simple button press menus that [...]
Monday, November 20, 2006
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20061117PR200.html
Materials and manufacturing costs for the 20GB model exceed the suggested retail price of US$499 by a total of $306.85. For the 60GB version, costs exceed the US$599 price by US$241.35. And look what people are doing to them once they’ve got them out of the store:
Excellent sledge-hammer action.
Monday, November 20, 2006
This is very interesting: a banner advertising O2’s UK mobile phone service, in Polish. There have been a few stories recently about media focusing on the Polish market, including a local paper in Reading publishing a Polish edition as a trial. The price is in pounds, so this isn’t a Polish banner that’s lost its [...]
Monday, November 20, 2006
In his blog Jupiter Analyst Barry Parr is enthusing about the development of user generated video today, recollecting how he felt about the arrival of the mass-market web in 1994.
He’s suggesting that a lot of the pioneering work is going to be done by amateurs with pro-sumer technology. The shift from broadcast TV, in the [...]
Friday, November 17, 2006
Can’t help but love this.
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Sigur Ros are getting very popular here… The BBC have picked up on them and they’re using them a lot in links and trailers. Rather like what they did with Lemon Jelly a few years back.
Friday, November 17, 2006
When your mate gets a new phone, do you worry you might not be able to call him any more? Your old phone and his new one might be incompatible somehow?
Me either.
So why doesn’t the new Skype beta work with the previous production version? My colleague in New York had to downgrade again after installing [...]
Friday, November 17, 2006
I saw this site a while back, but it was demonstrated to me again at a meeting with Autonomy this week.
Autonomy do search, and they do it very well from what I’ve seen. The BBC use them, as do the Financial Times and the CIA apparently, so I think we can assume their search solution [...]
Thursday, November 16, 2006
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This video was created to attract attention for the new hidefchamber website we’ve built for BT. I had serious doubts about my colleagues’ mental health the day it was being made. Why are they all screaming at their PCs?
No “when we roll we roll big” in this one…