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It’s the beginning of the week so welcome to a bumper edition of Your Dose:
Articles:
Guardian - Kangaroo offers to sacrifice joint selling of shows to achieve launch
Guardian – BBC Worldwide holds crucial talks with Woolworths backers over 2entertain
Mashable - Tweets to Go: 35+ More Twitter Resources for Your Phone
Mashable - Track Santa on Twitter
Guardian - Hallelujah! No 1 for Burke, and triple hit for Cohen
Guardian -Despite everything, 2008 proved to be the BBC’s year
Guardian - A life in broadcasting: The BBC
Guardian - Thunderbirds to be given TV revival
Guardian - Gavin & Stacey to return for third series
Blogs:
Gizmodo - Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
PDA - Analyst: Music labels must get over their CD fixation
PDA - The world’s first dot com domains – back in 1985
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It’s the weekend (whoop!) – about 5 days to Christmas (whoop!) and I have another bumper edition for you (whoop!)….
Articles:
BBC News - Dr New – is this the next Doctor?
BBC News - BBC iPlayer now available on Mac
Guardian - ITV axes Passage to India remake starring Matthew Macfadyen
Guardian - Stars urge fellow actors to sign up to Comic Relief’s ‘Taking on the Tough Stuff’ fundraiser
Guardian - Could Catherine Zeta-Jones be the next Doctor Who?
Guardian - Remember this guy?
Guardian - 100 top sites for the year ahead
CNET News - Adobe squeezes AIR out of beta for Linux users
The Wall Street Journal - How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs
AdvertisingAge - Report: News-oriented Websites Have a Future
Mashable - YouTube Videos Are Becoming an Unwatchable Mess
Mashable - Beyond Facebook Gifts: Virtual Currencies 101
Mashable - Baby Blogging: 8 Trendy Tools Compared
Mashable - Notify.me Custom Alerts Get Even Faster With Desktop AIR App
Mashable - Why Facebook Connect is a Big Deal: Workstir’s Winning Implementation
Guardian - Tipping point for digital radio switch over could be 2015, says report
Blogs:
PDA - BBC introduces CBBC iPlayer, plus beta Mac and Linux downloads
Technology Blog - Sky moves towards 3D broadcasting as Hollywood moves towards 3D movies
Organgrinder - Jonathan Ross turns to Twitter for radio advice
PostSecret - http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com/
InsideGuardian - Turning official figures into understandable graphics, at the press of a button
PDA - Demand for music down in Q3; paid downloads grow a mere 2%
PDA - The outlook for 2009, as defined by Twitterers
Ruptured - http://ruptured.wordpress.com/
One more dose – just for you…
Articles:
Guardian - Bebo and RDF team up for online show
Blog:
PDA - We’re internet dependent. Did we need Yahoo’s research to tell us that?
Website:
Internet Addictions Test
http://www.netaddiction.com/resources/internet_addiction_test.htm
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Yes, I know what your thinking…it’s Friday and the weekend is upon us!. So its time to sit down, relax and feast your eyes on some interesting stories……
Articles:
MacRumors - Apple Exploring 3D Desktop and Application Interfaces
BBC - Brit Awards tip top rising star
MediaGuardian - BBC pilots iPlayer content sharing with Telegraph Media Group
MediaGuardian - Wallace and Gromit star in BBC1 Christmas idents
Blogs:
BBC dot.life - Canvas and the connected home
WIRED:Gadgetlab - Tag Your House With UV-based Temporary Grafitti
WIRED:Gadgetlab - Producer Directs Video via Webcam
WIRED:Gadgetlab - European Retailer Using RFID to Improve Customer Service
OrganGrinder - Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Who was the best guest team captain?
Websites:
I love photography, so its great to find a website to help you get the picture you want.
Customise a Jellybean – AMAZING!
Convert files - Brilliant!
Online shopping organizing….really needed this time of year.
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Here is another delighful dose of internet goodness for your needs!
Articles:
Top of 2008 Lists:
Organgrinder Blog - The Top 10 viral ads of 2008
Organgrinder Blog - The worst TV ads of 2008
TV Drama:
MediaGuardian - Ridley Scott firm makes BBC2 teen series based on Greek myths
MediaGuardian - Neve Campbell and James Purefoy to star in new NBC drama
Youtube:
N-Dubz – OUCH – It has the classic comedy line – “My Name is Schiqua and What?” - it was mentioned on Never Mind the Buzzcocks to - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IbTC-hZMD5s&feature=related
A really funny banned advert for an insurance company – Eve and Gay Adam
Websites:
I love looking at concept cars and peoples ideas for the future.So when i found this website at work i had to share. Maybe one day cars will actually look like this…
I found this through someone elses delicious page, but wish I had known about it sooner. They are talking about all the new TV dramas for 2009 -Awesome!
Television – Tubetalk – DigitalSpy
My and my friend were talking about how good this would be last night. Being able to watch full gigs online – and we found it!
Thats all for today but keep coming back to find some more goodies!! As always to be kept up to date check out my delicious page!
