Round Up Thursday 7 October 2010
According to the Daily Telegraph the BBC iPlayer is the “good in the highest degree catch-up service in the UK”. The research, which was carried wanting by Webcredible, a user experience consultancy, scored iPlayer 88 per cent in usability stakes, closely followed in sixtieth part of a minute place by STV Player, the Scottish TV [...]
Tameside Council wastes 36,000 on Second Life flop
IT chiefs at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council in Greater Manchester squandered a integral of £36,665 building a virtual town hall in online globe Second Life. The council scrapped the project after one year suitable to the low levels of interest shown in the service. The council said it was “looking at innovative and modern ways [...]
Round up: Tuesday 6 July 2010
When David Madden blogged that the iPlayer was now available on certain Google Android devices in June there was a discussion in comments which referred to (among other things) an unsupported third party app called beebPlayer. Dave Johnston who made beebPlayer has now clarified a few points, in a post on his own blog: “Beebplayer’s [...]
Study suggests public bodies are paying too much for web site services
Private sector businesses are spending on average 10 times less on their web site services than UK local councils, according to research from freelance jobs site PeoplePerHour.com. A Freedom of Information Act request put to every local council in the country by PeoplePerHour.com revealed an average bill for web site services of £40,917 in 2008/2009. [...]