The BBC’s Head of Audience Measurement (HAM?) Jo Hamilton has written a post on the BBC Internet Blog explaining the corporation’s move towards sharing data on iPlayer usage.
The numbers give new insights into how people use the service, who they are and which programmes are most popular.
The data is quite rich and shows us how many people watched via live simulcast versus on demand and even how many people watch iPlayer on each platform – PC, mobile or games console.
What the data shows is as many men as women use …

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As well as the realtime translate (see above), Google’s also added a new feature to help English speakers pronounce and read non-roman languages like Chinese and Japanese.
Google’s also added text-to-speech support for English translations to Google Translate. Click the speaker icon and you’ll hear the translation. Watch the video below for Google’s explanation of the new features in Google Translate.

Have fun…
or as we say in Chinese…

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I uncovered a bit of a find whilst exploring the virtual test-tube racks (or should that be Rax?) of Google Labs last night.
Launched back in June, Google’s City Tours enables (in theory) you to create your own itineraries for city breaks and plots out a schedule on a map together with a proposed route.
According to the official description:
“Making holiday planning as easy as searching the web. City Tours helps you identify points of interest and plan multi-day trips to most major cities. You just specify the location of your hotel …

I came across the following article on Wired.com’s Epicenter blog:

Twitterer Arjan El Fassed paid €100 to have a street in a Palestinan refugee camp named after his Twitter profile: “@arjanelfassed tweetstreet”.
Brainchild of the Dutch website Jouw Eigen Straatnam (which in English means ‘Your Own Street’, the scheme aims to allocate names to all 200 streets in the Askar camp raising money for the Palestinian Child Care Society (PCCS) to fund cultural and expressive after-school activities for the 1,000 children (aged under 12) currently living in the area. …

I meet Murray Newlands at a tweetup. I am not sure what we were both doing there; I think we were both curious as to what a “tweetup” was. After that we just seem to run into each other and having established that he was not stalking me I agreed to interview for his affiliate blog. Other interesting stuff I have learned about Murray, he is an SEO wiz and a bit of a character, Google famous blogger and you will see what I mean, I wish him good luck …

I guess I never really thought about it before, but the BBC’s role as a public broadcaster means that it feels that its blog content is liable to the same strict guidelines that are imposed on its TV and radio channels.
This manifested itself by the temporarily freezing of comment submissions on its political blogs during today’s European Parliamentary elections in the UK:

The following section of the BBC’s 2009 European Election Broadcasting Guidelines focuses on all online content:

4.1 BBC Online
The same guidelines as those for programmes will apply to BBC Editorial …

The Telegraph today engaged in Twitter-nomics to set up reports for this Wednesday’s forthcoming UK Budget announcement from Chancellor Alistair Darrrrrrling (gotta love that name).
Following their Editor Will Lewis’ example of embracing Twitter, the Budget team created a TwitterFall for their website. A TwitterFall is a way of viewing the latest ‘tweets’ of upcoming trends and custom searches on Twitter. Updates fall from the top of the page in near-realtime.

So the theory is that anyone on Twitter talking about the Budget will appear on the Telegraph’s …

Event Wax – the Web based event organisation lubrication (their words, not mine) has announced today that it will be shutting down the service down completely on Thursday 16th July.

Whilst I signed up for Event Wax a few months back, I’m a keen Google Calendar user and have never really had any reason to stray from the Big G’s offering. That said, I have had brief flirtations with Meetup.com and have been known to use Facebook to organise private events.
Taking a closer look at Event wax, it was actually a …

To celebrate Ogilvy’s 60th birthday, the Bold Ogilvy Company, together with Shaya Hansen and Yannis Petritsis recorded their very own Ballard For David*.
[*An Ad Man from A to V]
All I can say, is watch it now and then please help me out…

OK. Come out from behind the sofa. It’s over.
Surely, this has to be tongue-in-cheek, right? Right?

But even if that is the case, did it success in making you laugh? No? Me either.
So why (o’why, o’why, o’why, o’why)?!
Someone please explain… because I’m kinda freaked out by this video.

You …

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