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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Which Operating System would you choose?

Thursday, November 19, 2009

The tube tunnels are full of posters showing people who apparently helped design Windows 7. Which is probably why stories like this one appear from time to time. If you let members of the public design your operating system, it probably would be better than Windows, where even the version number is a hack. There [...]

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BBC’s Canvas Prototype – the future of internet TV?

Saturday, November 14, 2009

This movie shows a demonstration of what TV on the Internet could look like in the near future. While watching a live program, the viewer can switch to classic archive footage, follow Twitter conversation about the program they’re watching, interact with a sponsor (not on the BBC, of course) and there is a platform for [...]

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Stats from bit.ly

Monday, November 9, 2009

This morning’s fascinating fact is about the bit.ly URL shortening service:
If you have a bit.ly link, for example http://bit.ly/4dWnCu
you can insert ‘info’ into the URL thus:
http://bit.ly/info/4dWnCu
to get all sorts of facts and figures, like how many clicks that link has had, which sites are referring using it, who’s tweeting about that particular URL, and that [...]

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