Author Archives: take21

Facebook: 75% off

By take21 | Published: February 13, 2009

Out-law reports: “Facebook considers itself worth around a quarter of the $15 billion valuation on which a Microsoft investment in the company was based. The company considered itself to be worth $3.7bn in the middle of last year, according to court documents.” The valuation emerges from court documents in the case brought by former university […]

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Get Carter

By take21 | Published: February 13, 2009

Out-law.com reports: ‘The Government’s Digital Britain plan is a failure that gives favourable treatment to the music business and props up failed business models, a software trade body has said. ‘The Federation Against Software Theft and Investors in Software (FAST IiS), which promotes the legitimate use of software, has launched a stinging attack on the […]

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Spotify: listen up

By take21 | Published: February 13, 2009

Spotify may be the future of music. As of February 10th the Spotify music service is open to the public, so you don’t need an invitation to register. Sign up quick. Free with ads, or ad free £10.00 month www.spotify.com/ … and the record companies force them to remove tracks … “Spotify has been forced […]

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Nic Carr on newspapers

By take21 | Published: February 11, 2009

Nic Carr talking a lot of sense about the coming concentration of power in the hands of a few remaining players in the news industry. ‘Supply side adjustment’ means fewer jobs and fewer titles. Then ad revenue can recover and subscriptions become possible. News doesn’t want to be free. News wants to be paid for. […]

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Quotes from TED 2009

By take21 | Published: February 10, 2009

Jeremy Silver blogging from TED 2009. Music industry insider. Also Deputy Chairman of Futurelab – the educational innovation think-tank chaired by Lord Puttnam. Quotes from TED 2009

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Comment on Digital Britain report

By take21 | Published: February 5, 2009

Jack Schofield has a Guardian piece  linking to a WordPress site which allows you to comment on the text of the Carter report. How excellent. We will. Writetoreply.org

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TV on the web. Find it, watch it.

By take21 | Published: February 5, 2009

TV on the web. Find it, watch it. Bobbie Johnson, Guardian Tech on some new playlist features for the Blinkx video search service: Blinkx ‘inform me’ service Some people are very excited about Boxee, which gives users a single interface to access all the photos, video and music on their hard drive “on a laptop or connected to […]

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Design typography harmony

By take21 | Published: February 5, 2009

At the end of a long day looking at blogs you might come across i love typography. Your tiredness will slip away because you have arrived in a space where every element has been thought through. It’s a rarity: a beautifully designed blog. You don’t have to be involved with typography to enjoy looking. Go […]

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Inside BBC: How we make websites

By take21 | Published: February 5, 2009

Michael Smethhurst Information Architect @ BBC radio labs How we make websites A Slideshare presentation of the text. Inevitably, a bit technical: the BBC build database driven websites which handle a huge amount of content. Also, and understandable by anyone interested in building any sort of website, some of the sketches and diagrams they use […]

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Carter report on Guardian tech weekly

By take21 | Published: February 5, 2009

Discussion on Carter report Digital Britain on Guardian Tech Weekly podcast. Government intervention. How to pay for universal broadband? “Think like the Victorians” (Vic Keegan). 2MB is an aspiration, compared with 20 and 50MB in other countries. ‘Universal service obligation’ does not include a commitment to achieve even this speed for all. New media startups […]

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