Links for 2007-10-11
- Google are acquiring Jaiku and with it, presumably, the lovely Jyri and Ulla Well done guys! I'm assuming this has something to do with the fabled GPhone?
- Serious Eats posts on the wonderful Stichelton cheese available from Neal's Yard Diary You can get it at Borough Market too. I've persuaded the chocolate shop chaps to explore putting it in a chocolate!
- Mr Hicks has proposed a nice informal cover design contest for the Radiohead 'In Rainbows' digital download Not a lot of transformative insights yet, but quite like the idea and would be delighted if someone came up with something dramatically better than the finished official version...
- Has anyone got any idea of how many people are actually using the iPlayer? First talked about in 2003, supposed to be publically launched to everyone a really long time ago, and still--frankly--quite a bad idea, particularly in the context of Joost, is there anyone out there who's actually using it?
Comments
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I've tried the iPlayer a few times, and never got it to actually work. Torrents are far easier, and I figure what's the difference than If I'd recorded it on my Sky+
→ Posted by: evamedia at October 11, 2007 8:29 AM
I must admit to using the iPlayer. iIknow how much you guys hate it, but for all the MS DRM and the clunky interface it actually works well. The downloads are quick, it generally works fine, no complaints here.
I also use torrents, mainly for US stuff, but I actually find I'm watching much more tv originated content since I downloaded the iPlayer.
→ Posted by: sboy2010 at October 11, 2007 10:00 PM
The knowledge that the disc-box will feature real genuine Stanley Donwood artwork, works a bit paralyzing to make up something. But the My Little Pony version comes close what i'd like...
→ Posted by: pastedescape at October 12, 2007 11:14 AM
I don't think it's the case that I'm down on it per se, and if people are genuinely getting value from using it that's absolutely brilliant. I'm just suspicious about how much it does get used versus how much it cost to build and the Microsoft lock-in. That's why I'd like to see some figures.
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at October 12, 2007 12:11 PM
I'm interested to see the news on the BBC/Adobe partnership for iPlayer: http://tinyurl.com/2g6ms7
I will certainly be paying attention, if for no other reason than I have just invested in a Real Enabled Wifi internet radio that plays the on demand streams from the current BBC Radio Player. It's a steal & works very well.
I think I'm becoming pragmatic in my old age. Once upon a long ago I would have taken a very ideological stance on this issue. Lately tho I have come to realise that the only thing that matters is: Does It Work??
→ Posted by: sboy2010 at October 16, 2007 10:55 PM
I've been using iPlayer for a while now, but I really only use it to prevent rushing around trying to find a spare disk to record something. Of course, I'd probably use it more if the Beeb had more stuff I wanted to watch, but that's not the iPlayer's fault...
→ Posted by: liptrot.org at October 18, 2007 12:10 PM