2
June
Categorised: Media.
When I wrote this, I was thinking about: App Store, Business, Media.
This is something that’s been bugging me for a while. It’s something that started with multimedia but has now found its way onto Apple’s app store. I’m talking of the recent trend of charging per device or per medium. My first experience of this was with BSKYB when I upgraded my satellite system to high […]
20
February
Categorised: Usability.
When I wrote this, I was thinking about: Interface Design, Media, Usability.
Last night I put off going to bed so I could watch the Women’s Skeleton in the Winter Olympics. There was a chance of Britain picking up an unlikely gold medal (we did!). As the night hours turn into the morning hours, and the skeleton enters its final runs, my Sky+ HD receiver decided to […]
13
March
Categorised: Apple.
When I wrote this, I was thinking about: Apple, Media.
Red Nose Day 2009 is upon us and all around the UK people are donning wigs and plastic noses and doing “something funny for money”. If you’re not familiar with Red Nose Day, also known as Comic Relief, it’s a UK-wide event, orchestrated by the BBC that raises money for various national and international charities. […]
23
December
Categorised: Technology.
When I wrote this, I was thinking about: Adobe Air, bbc, BBC iPlayer, DRM, Media.
When the BBC initially launched the iPlayer, it was a Windows only service that used Windows DRM to baffle its users. At the time, the BBC stated, and then retracted, and then was forced into restating that a download version of the iPlayer would be available on OSX and Linux machines before the end […]
15
January
Categorised: Apple.
When I wrote this, I was thinking about: Apple, Apple TV, iTunes, MacWorld, Media.
Oddly for a Steve Jobs keynote, he started the Apple TV/iTunes Movie Rentals section on a negative point. Movies and the Apple TV aren’t performing as well as they hoped, apparently. I’m not quite sure what they were hoping for, seeing as iTunes has more sales than the rest of the competition put […]
9
January
Categorised: Apple.
When I wrote this, I was thinking about: Apple, CES, Marketing, Media, Technology.
Apple always appear to create huge amounts of buzz without really trying. So what tactics do they use? And how have they managed to upstage an entire industry two years in a row?
15
December
Categorised: Media.
When I wrote this, I was thinking about: bbc, iplayer, Media.
Today, the BBC launched a Flash version of the controversial iPlayer. So how does it stack up given the all round beating the download based iPlayer took? The first thing is that the iPlayer is now cross platform. Well, cross platform in as much as it uses Macrodobe’s Flash technology which, while still proprietary, at […]
30
November
Categorised: Blogging, Media.
When I wrote this, I was thinking about: Blogging, Community, Media, Scandal.
Building a community of loyal, active readers is difficult, time consuming process fraught with dangers. So why, in the last 24 hours, have two major online publications put the loyalty of their communities in jeopardy? I’m not comparing the two cases, one is simply questionable behaviour while the other is downright despicable. So what am […]
16
October
Categorised: Media.
When I wrote this, I was thinking about: adobe, bbc, flash, iplayer, Media, Usability.
I’ve been highly critical of the BBC’s iPlayer in the past. Not only did it have some very obvious failings, including the interface and confusing DRM, but it was also tied to Microsoft Windows XP. Well, not any more. Mashable is reporting (without a source I might add) that the BBC have […]