I saw SeeSaw
Arqiva’s UK based online TV content service SeeSaw started sending out beta invites today. Arqiva picked up the technology that was to power Project Kangaroo before Ofcom squashed the whole cross channel TV catch-up project as somehow uncompetitive. Obviously it’s only a beta offering so the number of available programmes is no as extensive as perhaps it will be when the service launches properly around March 2010. By then the free content will be joined by paid for items and maybe even availability via Wii or iPhone if users express enough interest.
At the moment there’s a smattering of content not available elsewhere. A token range of old school Doctor Who , Blackpool plus the entire IT Crowd and Queer as folk via the 4OD offerings.The least extensive content offerings come from Five. A quick try out has given a good quality full screen picture quality and stable streaming for me at least.
Whether SeeSaw differentiates itself sufficiently from any independent channel on-line offering and whether it can monetise its service sufficiently to survive long term remains to be seen.
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The Linkest Week
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When we buy bread from the supermarket it’s more often than not tiger bread. Some searching on the internet for a recipe appeared inconclusive and one forum where the recipe of tiger bread has been in hot discussion couldn’t settle on a recipe
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“Remember floppy disks? Specifically those little 3.5″ diskettes that were the bees knees and cat’s meow? Popularized in the 80s and 90s, they wouldn’t hold the equivalent of one mp3 file. Nick Gentry also remembers those times. He’s taken his artistic ability and applied it to storage devices of yester year. Come take a trip down memory lane…”
Sound sculptor and musician Henry Dagg has created one of the most extraordinary musical instruments of our time. And it’s looking for a good home
“A new music file format has been unveiled by some of the key figures behind the development of the MP3. The new file, MusicDNA, can include things like lyrics, videos, artwork and blog posts, which will continually be updated, as well as the music.”
History as it happens or token democracy?
I’m a sucker for having historic items on whilst doing other things.Whether via the TV, radio or Internet.As I write this we’re part way through ex-PM Tony Blair giving his side of why he took Britain to war in Iraq. Twitter has probably already made up its mind as the wisdom of crowds extracts the sound bites whilst trying its hardest to find the humour in a deathly serious subject. Maybe this is the nearest many of us can feel to being involved and having a say, It’s a token democracy.
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It’s been hard to escape the hype and expectation around Apple’s new iPad tablet device thingy. I’ve been a long term user of Apple computers (my first was a second hand Apple IIe way back when) though of late I’ve been using linux for everything aside from advanced audio and video production.
I’ve had little desire to own an iPhone and I can’t say I currently have an iPad shaped hole in my life. That’s not to say that it isn’t an important device in the history of personal technology but my mobile needs are already catered for by a netbook (3G and WiFi capable), a device which Steve Jobs dismissed as ‘not really good at anything’.Well at least it can run the flash plugin which the iPhone and iPad do not.Oh and voip/skype. Okay no access to Apple’s app store or iBook or the print media portal but I can download eBooks from our local library and subscribe to PressDisplay to read newspapers from around the world.Oh and plug it into a larger monitor if required.And it has a real keyboard that’s not an optional extra. The point is I don’t find a netbook that limiting.
But then maybe the iPad is just not aimed at me.Or is is that the fabled Steve Jobs reality distortion field isn’t working on me these days? I wait with interest the unveiling of the special inflated UK pricing for the iPad models when Apple get around to launching it in the UK in June.
Back to square one?
The UK is out of recession. That’s alright then. Onward and upward.Really?
If the past 18 months had been a military campaign there would be a debriefing or maybe a (whitewash) inquiry similar to the Iraq one going on at the moment. Have the banks learned anything. Have we? We all collectively still owe a galactic sized chunk of debt, right?
Obviously a fraction of a percent growth does not an end to recession make and whilst I take no pleasure in adopting a glass half empty viewpoint (no really) on the situation it would surely be worth a cautionary dose of realism to speculate that any recovery may take at least a couple of years. Paying off the debt may take a generation.
But if we haven’t leaned collectively from what got us into this recession then we’ll ll make the same mistakes again. Won’t we?
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