BBC Diggs Social Media, But Doesn’t Seem To Get It
Last August I wrote about how happy I was to see that the BBC had added social bookmarking chicklets to all of their stories as it suggested that they really understood the way the world of new media works.
Unfortunately it would seem like I was being slightly naive as Patrick Altoft has found what looks […]
New BBC Homepage? It’s Rather Excite(ing)
This week saw the launch of the new BBC homepage which has, unsurprisingly, generated a large amount of comment, including this interesting post by Tom about whether this means that BBC.co.uk will end up being a competitor to Google.
Whilst the comments on the new design have been mixed one thing that strikes me is […]
BBC, ITV & C4 Launch VOD Service: Is Joost Worried Yet?
A very quick post as TechCrunch UK has some great background, but essentially the BBC, ITV & Channel 4 have announced plans to launch a joint on-demand web TV service. As with all these things it has a stupid code name (Kangaroo apparently, possibly influenced by the marsupial nature of Google’s Platypus project), but I’d […]
AOL & MSN Should Be Very Scared: The BBC Is Coming
Amongst all of the coverage of the BBC’s plans to cut thousands of jobs and sell off Television Centre, one point seems to have slipped through with almost no mention. And that is, as The Telegraph puts it, the decision to:
[Sell] Advertising for the first time on the BBC’s website.
Now I’m assuming that this news […]
BBC Gets Social: Adds Social Boomark Chicklets
The BBC, which has taken user generated content to heart, has now taken a step into the world of user selected content, or social news & bookmarking sites.
We noticed today that the BBC have finally added the social bookmarking chicklets that are already ubiquitous on many other sites. Whilst this feels a little bit like […]
