Interesting Stuff 15.04.08
| 11:04 UK time, Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Jemima Kiss has the to replace Ashley Highfield, with comment at the Guardian's and .
Away from the gossip, Neil Berkett of Virgin Media has written a forthright article about ISPs and broadband costs for the 's Television magazine. The article is not available online, but it's set off some very heated and (I warn you) tasteless comment at .
Aqute Research asks an unusual question: .
Social Reporter of the 大象传媒's Action Network.
Matt Deegan .
And in Miami, of the FM&T Information Architecture team is speaking at the Information Architecture Summit. Martin Belam .
Nick Reynolds is editor, 大象传媒 Internet Blog.
Comments
Interesting point on the Virgin thing; Anthony Rose's post below about the iPlayer on PS3 seems to express the idea that the 大象传媒 wants users to get the best possible experience of the iPlayer, or none at all. If that's the case, will you be blocking Virgin users so they don't get a poor service on the same principle that you try to block PS3 users now?
FYI - The Aqute Research blog is actually based on my original TechCrunch UK post, linked to above.
Re the Neil Berkett of Virgin Media piece.
鈥淰irgin is already in the process of doing deals to speed up the traffic of certain media providers.鈥 Virgin鈥檚 CEO 鈥渢hen turned on the 大象传媒 and their iPlayer service, telling them - and other public broadcasters like them - that if they don鈥檛 pay a premium to gain faster access to Virgin Media鈥檚 customers, their service would be put into 鈥渂us lanes鈥.
I think you should tell iPlayer users if an ISP is deliberately slowing down iPlayer traffic ~ and let them know those that are not. That way it鈥檚 clear to the user why a particular service may be slow, and gives consumers choice.