Ben Ayers http://benayers.co.uk Work, Life, Play Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en links for 2008-09-10 http://benayers.co.uk/2008/09/10/links-for-2008-09-10/ http://benayers.co.uk/2008/09/10/links-for-2008-09-10/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:00:30 +0000 Daily links http://benayers.co.uk/2008/09/10/links-for-2008-09-10/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-09-10", url: "http://benayers.co.uk/2008/09/10/links-for-2008-09-10/" });]]>
  • Ashton Kutcher's celebrity news site | Media | guardian.co.uk
    It was round about this time last year that MC Hammer wanted a bite of the juicy web cherry (does that sound like a specialist site?) and took to the stage at TechCrunch40 to share his thoughts on a few startups working with rich media and mashups. Hammer's qualification is that he founded a site called DanceJam where users upload videos of themselves dancing and the community rates them.

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  • Victoria Coren: Live in the now? What an absolutely idiotic proposition | Comment is free | The Observer
    A brilliant article - the genius of a writer like Victoria is that they can beautifully articulate - and get 800 words out of - stuff that we may all think fleetingly. Marvellous.
  • Kerstin Mogull takes senior BBC technology role | Media | guardian.co.uk
    The BBC has created the new role of chief operating officer for the future media and technology department, promoting Kerstin Mogull, the corporation's deputy director for policy and strategy, to the role.

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  • Widget Channel: Yahoo promises to bring wonders of the web to television |
    A new project announced by internet giant Yahoo is promising to bring the wonders of the web to television, allowing viewers to customise their TV screens with a swathe of internet services including eBay listings, weather, financial news and Twitter updates. I will be watching this one with interest.

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    ]]>     http://benayers.co.uk/2008/08/23/links-for-2008-08-23/feed/     Content shops must be web centric to the core - Leonhard http://benayers.co.uk/2008/08/19/content-business-must-be-web-centric-to-the-core-leonhard/ http://benayers.co.uk/2008/08/19/content-business-must-be-web-centric-to-the-core-leonhard/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:26:36 +0000 Ben Ayers http://benayers.co.uk/?p=223 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Content shops must be web centric to the core - Leonhard", url: "http://benayers.co.uk/2008/08/19/content-business-must-be-web-centric-to-the-core-leonhard/" });]]> Here is media futurist Gerd Leonhard’s latest video in his GerdTube series. Gerd asserts that the technology-fueled ‘Culture of Participation and Sharing’ is now changing the content and media industries at a very rapid pace.


    Youtube has changed TV and video, forever; blogging and self-publishing has changed journalism and print media; P2P, web radio and now on-demand streaming has uprooted the recorded music industry. Any successful ‘content’ player must now develop and put in place a web-centric (and web-native!) business model that is based on unrestricted sharing and user-engagement as THE crucial starting point - not as an after-thought or a mere concession to the demands of the people formerly known as consumers.

    He is of course absolutely right. But then people won’t want to share, engage with or emerse themselves in content if it’s no good. So the business model must also allow for making some damn good content.

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  • Online TV viewing doubles : Broadband TV News
    British viewers are increasingly relying on broadband-delivered on demand TV services rather than turn on their digital TV sets.

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