An utterly fantastic video from 1966 that speculates on what life will be like in 1999… so I thought I’d upload it to celebrate 2009! Unlike most videos from the past that speculated on flying cars and robots doing all our chores, this one went for the ‘home shopping’ angle, bank account unification and a ... Read more
Hooray! Widget Web Expo is coming to town (London)! The future of the web is widgets – in fact, the present of the web is widgets too. Long time associate and thoroughly nice bloke Ivan Pope (Mr Widget) is chairing the WidgetWebExpo 6-7th October, in Covent Garden, London. It should be a great event and ... Read more
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Posted July 4 2008 By Laura
New research by the IPA has shown that almost a third of people between the age of 15 to 25 have watched TV via the internet. And around 18% of people aged between 25 and 64 (a very broad ‘old people’ category or what?!) had too.
The IPA Touchpoints report surveyed over 5,000 people and ... Read more
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Posted July 3 2008 By Neoco
Bored with Twitter? Fed up with Twinkle? Step it up a level and stream video direct from your mobile phone to the web using Qik!
The core idea is that you download a small application onto your phone, sign up to qik.com and then simply stream whatever you fancy direct to the Internet. Videos can be ... Read more
BBC1 has just announced that within the next year, all of its programmes will be simulcast as a live video stream on the internet. This makes it the first of BBC’s analogue TV channels to be aired on the web – ITV has already been simulcasting ITV1, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 for a year.
The channel ... Read more
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Posted May 21 2008 By Laura
We have just delivered a customised version of our new ChatBox application for Sony Ericsson, which enabled their Head of Region CEEMEA and over 400 employees across 104 countries to hold a 60 minute live chat session over the internet and mobile phones.
The chat session had a high engagement rate with Sony Ericsson’s key staff ... Read more
Lycos Europe, one of the dominating search giants of the 90s, is now up for auction. Unable to compete with Google’s power, the search engine ran into net losses of EUR 5.9 million for the first quarter this year, according to PaidContent.
Dresdner Kleinwort is now Lycos’ advisor in its bid to find a new strategy ... Read more
According to WSJ, Adobe are going to develop Flash for the iPhone. And they’re not just going to use the existing Flash Lite – they’re going to develop a new version (or tweak the existing one) especially for the iPhone.
Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen had said: “We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, ... Read more
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Posted March 19 2008 By Laura
Most likely as a result of being outclassed and outflanked by noted anti-Scientologist and self-proclaimed Wog Sean Kennedy, nine years later the Church of Scientology answered back with their own online video channel.
Recently, there was an interesting bit of collateral damage noted in the ongoing war between Scientology and the Internet, but Scientology’s war on ... Read more
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Posted March 17 2008 By Laura
Web creator, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has told the BBC that he is against web tracking systems, and he would change his ISP if they introduced it. He believes that consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the Internet.
Recently, plans by leading ISPs to use Phorm, a company which tracks ... Read more