A trawl around the web, November 23rd to December 17th
Posted on Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 10:11am. #
My team
The Rockterscale [MAKE magazine]
My team make it onto MAKE magazine's blog. I'm proud.
RadioAunty [whomwah.com]
A nice little Apple Mac app, which effectively embeds the current iPlayer radio console as an application on your desktop. And auto-updates when the BBC updates the radio console (which will be happening by March next year). Nice work.
BBC builders: Tom Scott, and the team behind /programmes and /music [guardian.co.uk]
Great piece about Tom Scott, who worked for me until recently, and what my team are working on across the BBC.
Permanent web IDs or making good web 2.0 citizens [Derivadow.com]
Slides from a presentation the excellent Tom Scott gave when I was still employing him
More from the BBC
Bigscreen version of the BBC iPlayer
Not seen this before. Looks nice.
Other radio stuff
Nick Abbot & the Half-Indian Gay Skateboarder – LBC 97.3 [YouTube]
A brilliant example of adding images to radio. Excellent. Splendid.
Putting the ‘app’ in ‘Capital’ (except there isn’t an ‘app’ in ‘Capital’) [popjustice]
Great review of the new Capital FM iPhone app
Other fun
Free WiFi with your coffee at Pret [Techcrunch UK]
Excellent news. Free wifi is being much more ubiquitous. More excuses to find a Hidden Location and actually get on with some work. Meanwhile…
Free Public WiFi [JSTN]
… always wondered about this and now I know. Thanks to @metajack on identi.ca for the link.
I Love Spam! Especially When It Comes from Princeton Premier! [Say hello to my little red pen]
I got one of those emails the other day, and believed it for a second. A quick Google search later, and not believing it any more.
The High Cost of Pretending [43 Folders]
Rather useful piece of advice about your inbox while going on holiday. I normally say "I'm not reading email, I might not read your mail when I get back, so if you want to be sure of a reply, send it again on xxxx." Nobody ever sends the mail again. And I still have unread email from my last holiday.
SMS and data in the air [bmi]
My favourite airline adds the capability to send text messages, and use data, in the air. Doubtless at mad prices, but thank heavens, they're not enabling voice.
Big media steals again from the little guy [diamond geezer]
The Daily Mail steals a photograph from a Flickr user. I'm looking forward to stealing something from the Daily Mail, if only I could ever bring myself to look at their website.
Listen to songs from your iTunes library on your phone [didiom]
Quite interesting, this – it "placeshifts" your entire iTunes library to be on your mobile phone – whatever phone you have (except an iPhone). Nicely done, by the looks of the screenshots.
Innsbruck [Venere Travel Blog]
Another outing for my photograph of some rather colourful (and ever so slightly enhanced) houses.
This is a tidied and edited list of my del.icio.us postings from November 23rd to December 17th. You can subscribe to this list, live, via rss.
Re: Daily Mail. Must be a DMGT thing as one of my chums had a photo ‘used’ by the Bristol Evening Post (same group I believe).
Bit of a palava resolving it from my overhearings – the most amusing aspect was him explaining to their picture desk what Flickr was and the concept of attribution.