YouTube has been used to post a video-predicting the fatal shooting at a school in Finland, with the none too subtle title of “Jokela High School Massacre – 11/7/2007.”
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iPlayer Opening: Post BBC Interview with Mark Taylor, OSC (Podcast)
As promised, below is the interview we did yesterday evening with Mark Taylor, President of the Open Source Consortium, following their meeting the BBC Technology staff, giving you the latest news on the BBC’s view on changing the iPlayer to an open platform rather than the Microsoft-only approach they’ve taken until now.
iPlayer: BBC DOES Want Open Platform: OSC
We met with Mark Taylor, President of the Open Source Consortium (OSC) last night, directly after his meeting with the BBC to discuss opening-up the iPlayer to run on more platforms than just the Microsoft browser.
It appears that the meetings were positive and boiled down to two points, the BBC feels they haven’t communicated their desires for iPlayer properly and that they want the iPlayer to run on an open platform.
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UK iPhone Launch On Friday: iGussets Moisten
Expect much shivering and perhaps a little moistening of the iPants as over-excited fanboys settle down to queue up for the UK launch of the iPhone on Friday.
For some reason we can’t even be bothered to look up, those crazy marketing cats at Apple have set a launch time of precisely 6:02 p.m., with iPhones being made available at more than 1,300 Apple, O2 and Carphone Warehouse retail locations across the UK.
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Ashley Highfield & The BBC iPlayer PR Offensive
We’ve had a listen to the podcasted interview with Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC Future Media and Technology, put out by BBC Backstage and thought it was worth some comment.
It’s clearly part of a PR battle against those who are voicing disappointment at the BBC making the iPlayer only work on a Microsoft platform.
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ZoneGate, Ubiquisys’ Femtocell: A Cellular Base-station In Your Home
Last Wednesday morning I went along to the first briefing with a company called Ubiquisys to see their product ZoneGate, a Femtocell. If you think you’ve heard of them, it’s could well be because of the investment that Google made in them recently.
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Sony UX490 (VAIO UX) Micro PC Released
More than a month after Amazon let the cat out of the bag with details of the forthcoming new Sony UX490N Micro PC, the unit is now officially up for grabs for those feeling the pint-sized PC love.
Like its predecessor the UX390, the UX490 features the same slide-out 4.5″ screen offering SVGA 1024×600 resolution displaying pixie-dwarfing text size, with a full 64-key mini-QWERTY keyboard lurking beneath.
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MySpace Adopts OpenSocial: Google Happy
Google is to collaborate with MySpace on OpenSocial, an Open Platform for Social Application Development.
Consisting of a set of common APIs that can be used for building Web-based social applications. The hope is that they will simplify the process of developing social applications.
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Skype/Logitech HQ Video Service London Launch (Video)
In the velvety red surroundings of what felt a bit like an underground porn cinema, an invisible DJ was pumping out a selection of ultra-bland house music as the large screen displayed nonsense quotes from Lewis Carrol’s, ‘The Mad Gardener’.
Kah! Those Kerrr-azy Skype folks!
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Google TextAds Now On YouTube
We’ve been keeping our eyes on the growth of advertising on YouTube – first there were text adverts on top of the YouTube videos, then they tried placing video adverts on the YouTube home page.