Bookmarks for 4 Jun 2010
- po-ru.com: What is the BBC platform strategy?
On BBC iPlayer platform coverage: "No Android, despite the fact that quite a lot of Android handsets have now been sold, and they’re all capable of playing video. The BBC did manage to make an iPad version before a single iPad had been sold in the country. But still no Android. [...] The strategy isn’t based on anything measurable. It’s based on nothing more than the narcissistic gadget purchasing habits of the BBC executives." (iplayer bbc android ) - Facebook Beta Testing User-Generated Question/Answer Service | Drake Martinet | MediaMemo | AllThingsD
"Facebook is beta-testing a product in the same space that so many giants have attacked and fallen short–a curated question-answer, which has stumped the biggest of bigs. Has it been about social scale all along?" (quora social_media facebook ) - designcult: Quora: How third-party auth can go horribly wrong
"A while back, I requested an invitation to Quora, a newfangled question-and-answer service. Yesterday, I got my invitation email, and clicked on the link." There are 12 screen to sign up, plus a few glitches on the way. UX designers take note. (quora social_media identity oauth facebook twitter user_experience ) - Flojuggler
"Track the periods of girls you know. Seriously." Good grief. (weird iphone app ) - A defensive experiment: How the Times of London and the Times in New York diverge on paid content » Nieman Journalism Lab
(paywalls newspapers timesonline nytimes ) - http://coins.guardian.co.uk/coins-explorer/search
"This is our first attempt at producing a way to navigate around the 3.2m data items released by the UK government as part of Coins. Scroll down the page to choose which chunk of data you'd like to explore – and let us know what you find." On the same day the government released its COINS finance database content, guardian.co.uk releases this navigator for it. (guardian government data tools financials )
