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Archive for March 2009
BBC News rollout video embedding
An old post noting the BBC’s trialing of video embeds remains one of the most popular on this site, even though the story is out of date. Thankfully I can update the story after a post on the BBC blog announcing that the trial is going to be rolled out using the embedded media player, … Continue reading
Rise of the e-book and digital print
The history of the internet is littered with failed experiments to shoehorn print online. From PDFs simply stuck online, to ‘turn the page’ user interfaces, to a dump of reams of text into HTML, simply trying to replicate print online misses the point of what makes digital different. Slowly though, momentum is building for digital … Continue reading
Martin Schaedel remembered
It was with great sadness that I learned of the tragic death in a plane crash of the ball of energy and ideas that was Martin Schaedel. I played a small part on his journey to internet celebrity, giving him what I believe was his first ever job. as described in the article in the … Continue reading
Google Adsense trial
In a post last year, I explained that I was looking to run an ad trial on the site to test ad optimisation service Pubmatic as a way to test it for some much larger sites. That test is now over, partly as this site doesn’t really get the traffic to provide precise enough data, … Continue reading
