Tag: Website
BBC to revamp news and sport websites
BBC Journalism has announced that it’s given the News and Sport websites a new look, with phase one of the revamp launching next week.
Pushing its multimedia offerings more strongly, the new websites will include higher profile promotion of the new embedded video service, more emphasis placed on breaking news and live events, wider page designs, and “more ambitious use of pictures”, whatever that means…
Phorm's internet-tracking service 'illegal' claim academics
Worried that your ISP will track your every move for advertising purposes? You’re not the only one. Indeed, a group of academics claims the new Phorm service is illegal.
British scientists want your Beatles-related memories for their Magical Memory Tour website/experiment
Those crazy British psychologists! Several University of Leeds peers have embarked on what they’ve dubbed ‘the Magical Memory Tour’, to discover what the general population’s first memories are when they think about the Beatles. LSD-soaked memories not sought, sorry.
The project consists of a massive online database of memories, which will be presented at a festival in Liverpool come September. It’s not simply an outlet for old hippies to reminisce about the first time they heard I Am The Walrus whilst on acid, as according to the two psychologists, the survey will help scientists…
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation set to buy Yahoo?
Never mind Microsoft, it seems like Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is in pole position to buy Yahoo.
Win a DVD boxset of Planet Earth, with thanks to Tech Digest and Love Earth
Quick reminder about our competition from the other day, where you can win a DVD boxset of the BBC documentary Planet Earth.
Tech Digest has teamed up with Love Earth to give the prize to ten different people, to promote their website www.loveearth.com , which allows visitors to submit their own photos, or ‘postcards’ to the interactive map, and…
The UK Scout Association goes web 2.0 for their Kids Outdoors website
After discovering through the largest survey so far that children and teens are spending less time than ever outdoors, the Scout Association has brushed up on their web design skills and launched their Kids Outdoors Campaign today, complete with spiffy web 2.0 flourishes.
They’ve got videos! That you can upload and share yourself! Share your photos of your kids getting sporty! They’ve got blog posts! They’ve got a tag cloud! They’ve even got a little log-in section on the top right-hand side, so you know they know you know they know their stuff! It’s just a shame about the poo-green colour scheme.
Their aim is to raise £10million…
Remind your future self how much of a moron you used to be, with Dear Future Me
A nifty idea which has spawned an actual real-life book (full of paper! wondrous 1.0 words!), FutureMe.org is like an online time capsule which can email you in the future and remind you of whatever it was you wanted to be reminded about back when you typed those now-meaningless words in.
Simply write…
Win a DVD boxset of Planet Earth, with thanks to Tech Digest and Love Earth
Who’s with me when I say that Planet Earth is one of the best BBC documentaries ever made? I enjoyed watching it so much on TV I actually – shock! – paid money for the DVD when it was released. It was that good.
Together with Love Earth, Tech Digest is giving away ten DVD box sets of the documentary (worth £45 each), to promote their new website, www.loveearth.com, created for the BBC Film ‘Earth’, which showed many celebrities such as Will Young, Patrick Stewart and Graham Norton sharing their favourite places to visit…
mydeco – founders of lastminute.com launch interior design site
The people brought you lastminute.com have launched mydeco – claiming it will transform the way we shop and design for our homes.
UK tax deadline extended as website crashes
Leave your tax to the last minute? Join the club, just about everyone does, even though you have from July to post it. And that’s bad news for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which has been forced to extend its self-assessment tax return deadline after its website crashed under weight of traffic on the last day of filing.
