Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-05 Thread Sean Dillon
Adam wrote: Tinyurl is a great service and i can understand why it is used, but i feel that using this type of service in a wider audience is a bad idea. We're having this exact same argument at the moment here, and I would agree that ideally this service should be located under the main

Re: [backstage] Lifehacker's Top Ten free video rippers encoders and converters

2007-11-01 Thread Sean Dillon
Simon Cobb wrote: there's a couple I hadn't heard of on here http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-free-video-rippers-encoders-and-converters-316478.php I know it's a collection of various tools (some mentioned) but I'm amazed that Godian Knot wasn't mentioned. Certainly

[backstage] Linux Port of iPlayer

2007-08-22 Thread Sean Dillon
Can't recall seeing this posted here, but then again it might have gotten lost in all the noise or I may have been too bone idle to actually remember what I've read. http://bbciplayerlinux.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page BBC iPlayer on Linux project Wiki This is a project to bring the BBC

Re: [backstage] Plain text or easy-to-parse news articles

2007-07-27 Thread Sean Dillon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/6918490.stm I know this is totally off topic but I notice that the links to external stories are actually being redirected through moreover.com rather than link directly to the site in question (even if it does go through the internal Beeb redirect

Re: [backstage] Tivo StopWatch beginner questions...

2007-07-17 Thread Sean Dillon
James Ockenden wrote: Interesting news from Tivo, it has been measuring 20,000 users second-by-second viewing habits. The results show people actually like the direct response ads better... more interesting i thought was how StopWatch managed the 20,000 CRID/URI-style info streaming in every

Re: [backstage] Microsoft TV - Live!

2007-07-06 Thread Sean Dillon
Christopher Woods wrote: Applied... Symbolic irony? The woman in the site's stock art is sitting in the grass and using (presumably) LiveStation... on an iBook. Hah. ... Or is this a hint towards Microsoft implementing some of that much-vaunted platform agnosticism we all talk about but

Re: [backstage] www.FreeTheBBC.info

2007-06-19 Thread Sean Dillon
David Greaves wrote: Sean Dillon wrote: vijay chopra wrote: Besides, if there are meeja prima donnas and wannabe luvvies (on this list or otherwise) that believe that DRM is a long term, workable solution to this problem, then I couldn't care less if they get their egos bruised a little

Re: [backstage] Test tube

2007-06-15 Thread Sean Dillon
Dave Crossland wrote: On 14/06/07, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/testtube I've seen the remixer thing on another site - guess thats yet another Google acquisition. I seem to recall Yahoo getting to market before them with their purchase of Jumpcut Remix.

Re: [backstage] www.FreeTheBBC.info

2007-06-15 Thread Sean Dillon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of what the media produces isn’t creative: it is formulaic and componentised in much the same way as any factory that assembles work on a production line. Of course, media production needs to be financed, but it isn’t a scarce resource and it does warrant

Re: [backstage] DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY

2007-06-07 Thread Sean Dillon
Jason Cartwright wrote: Apparently TFL are trialling mobiles on the tube next year... http://www.tfl.gov.uk/modalpages/4577.aspx And aircon as well :-) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102sid=acUFU0IpxGDc Seán - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe,

Re: [backstage] BBC Web API - additional audio formats // additional speed descriptors

2007-02-02 Thread Sean Dillon
Chris Newell wrote: At 17:22 01/02/2007, Pete Cole wrote: what we would see is, for example: location typeaudio/x-pn-realaudio/type (MIME type) bitrate128/bitrate (kbps) networkunicast/network (unicast | multicast | dvb)

Re: [backstage] Hosting (Slightly OT)

2007-02-01 Thread Sean Dillon
James Cridland wrote: On 1/30/07, *Davy Mitchell* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Thought this might be the ideal crowd... I am looking for a free (or cheap) hosting for MP3 files for my various auto-generated podcasts such as Mood News and

Re: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-19 Thread Sean Dillon
Brendan Quinn wrote: The questions were actually [1] Do you ever use the internet to... Download a podcast so you can listen to it or view it at a later time? Did you happen to do this yesterday, or not? Which doesn't seem too misleading to me... Putting in the listen to it or view it at a

[backstage] BBC to launch six-month trial of online archive next year...?

2006-12-18 Thread Sean Dillon
Today's Lovelacemedia is reporting The BBC is to launch a six-month trial of its online archive next year by making 1,000 hours of content available on-demand to 20,000 test participants. The Corporation’s director of future media and technology Ashley Highfield said of the move to eventually

Re: [backstage] EasyUtil Recommendations API

2006-03-20 Thread Sean Dillon
Tom Loosemore wrote: http://easyutil.com/ EasyUtil Recommendation web service provides a web API to make recommendations in the format of people who liked this item also liked those items. Isn't there some sort of patent issue with regards to this. Amazon filed a patent back in 2000.

Re: [backstage] Auto-tivo...

2005-11-08 Thread Sean Dillon
Leon Brocard wrote: How do you record TV? Leon Currently I have an AverMedia DVB-T card in a Windows box. It's own software is easy to use, if not particualarly feature packed, although you can easily schedule recordings in the future, and also schedule repeat recordings as well. Output

Re: [backstage] Google News launch RSS and Atom service

2005-08-12 Thread Sean Dillon
Amias Channer wrote: On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:50:51 +0100 Tony Hirst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of interest - how *do* google get away with republishing other providers news? With great wads of cash paid to licence them i suspect , google have a lot of funds at their disposal which can make