Round Up Wednesday 2nd February
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| 11:20 UK time, Wednesday, 2 February 2011
From The Telegraph: Ian Maude, head of Internet at Enders Analysis is quoted:
"...these cuts, which have been driven by the need to slash budgets, will force the Online team to sharpen its focus which ultimately is a good thing for its audience....most of the sections and websites that are being cut are the least popular part of its output."
reports paidContent. The relevant press release and the full report can be found on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Trust's website.
From the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Research and Development blog: "Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ MyMedia Field Trial Report":
"This EC-funded project studied recommender systems, developing state-of-the-art recommender algorithms and a public source recommender system software framework. In the final year, the project ran four individual fields trials to evaluate the technology in different applications and environments... In the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ field trial the target application was web-based radio and TV catchup services. describes the implementation of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ trial, the analysis of the results and the conclusions that followed."
And still at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ R&D blog, Richard Wright asks a provocative question: "Can Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ R&D save the world's audiovisual heritage?".
"The temptation is to say "Yes we can" but the realistic answer is "Well, not all by ourselves". But we are on the brink of creating something that can make a major difference to the amount of broadcasting content, and other audiovisual content"
JEDDEH! (Tim Sidwell)
"Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer is now a favourite, but being one he hasn't quite worked out how to work that so tends to fire up whatever is on the home page..."
Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Online
Comment number 1.
At 2nd Feb 2011, Spartacus wrote:re: Using an iPad, I have an iPod Touch. Every time I go to try to play iPlayer content I'm told I need to install Flash. Which I can't.
If there's an iPad specific version, can you get it to check for the iPod too? Theoretically they have identical capabilities, just a different screen size, so the only thing I can think of is that somewhere you're specifically testing for "iPad" in the browser string.
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Comment number 2.
At 5th Feb 2011, cping500 wrote:Nick could you give an official view on
As a trustee of the licence fee should not the trust be requiring due diligence to safeguard Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ intellectual property on (in the case correctly licence payers) behalf. A lot seems to have been thrown away without this consideration being reported on.
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At 5th Feb 2011, Nick Reynolds wrote:cping500 - you may find this blog post relevant to your comment.
Thanks
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At 6th Feb 2011, Dawn Matthews wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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