BBC iPlayer gets the go-ahead

The BBC has now got the green light to launch it's iplayer service later this year.

The service - which will launch later this year - allows viewers to watch programmes online for seven days after their first TV broadcast. Episodes can also be downloaded and stored for up to 30 days and can be played back on your tv via media centre pc's or by storage/playback devices such as Apple TV.

Other on TV on-demand services are covered here.

Celtic Media Festival Welsh success

Good to see that Welsh media and broadcast companies dominated the awards at the 2007 Celtic Media Festival.

For those who may have not been able to make the long trip to the stunning Isle of Skye, a complete webcast (ironically delivered by Welsh live webcast and streaming media specialists MultiStream) can be viewed online at http://www.celticfilm.co.uk/index.php?node_id=1.11

Congratulations all!

Online advertising becoming the channel to young consumers?

Legislation against fast food adverts targeting children on TV is welcomed by most; however key stakeholders in the future health of this nation feel that this legislation should be extended to include the web.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6601465.stm

5 Key Characteristics of Web Brands

“Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007,” Gemma Simpson wrote for Silicon.com in April 2007. “It’s the second year in a row a tech brand has beaten household names such as Coca-Cola, Marlboro and Toyota.”

5 Key Characteristics of Web Brands

Using Amazon as a fulfilment house

An amazing new service from Amazon for small ecommerce outfits: send all your stock to Amazon, and they'll store it and then ship it to the client for you when you ask:

Sold on eBay, Shipped by Amazon.com (NY Times)

Is Google Overvalued? Discuss

An interesting quick debate between two "experts" on whether Google is overvalued (i.e. its business model based solely around pay-per-click), or "the lifeblood of many sites"...

Is Google overrated? Tapped out? Due for a fall? Two experts take sides

Do you freecycle?

If you don't know already, Freecycle is "is an email list where people give away things that they no longer need for free".

It sounds too good to be true, but I've been subscribed to Cardiff Freecycle for a while know, and people really do seem to be give away decent, good quality items. So it seems not only a good way to save money, but helps do your bit for the environment, too. A nice example of the virtual world improving the real world, perhaps.

Ironically today I saw an item I wanted, went to contact the original poster, and it turned out to be someone sat 10 feet away from me in the same office... Small world...

Google Maps Results With User-Created Content

Google Maps Results With User-Created Content

Interesting news for all those of you who have started to create your own Google Maps - your info might now start to appear in other people's searches...

Our very first entry

A bit of humour to kick us off...