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Round up, Monday 22 March, 2010: "One Million Downloads!"

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Paul Murphy Paul Murphy | 17:10 UK time, Monday, 22 March 2010

The Guardian reports that :

"The Office of Fair Trading is to examine , the video-on-demand service backed by the and others, giving critics including and Virgin Media a chance to submit their concerns to competition authorities for the first time."

Meanwhile the Project Canvas website . Remember Arqiva? They're the ones who bought Project Kangaroo (now ) when .

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The Guardian's hosted by Matt Wells and "performing monkey" (her words) Emily Bell has an interview with "´óÏó´«Ã½ Internet overlord Erik Huggers" (Wells's words) and an analysis of his speech at last week's Guardian's Changing media Conference. After Erik's piece there's some interesting comments about the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Strategy Review from Emily Bell so keep listening. Wells's other :

"Mad thought... Eric (sic) Huggers for next ´óÏó´«Ã½ director general?"

For ´óÏó´«Ã½ watchers who didn't make it to the conference there's an courtesy of featuring ´óÏó´«Ã½ online Controller Seetha Kumar (details of the rest of the panel are somewhere in this ).

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Going against the general trend by not demanding that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ cut its services, Paidcontent . The reasoning is simple:

"The ´óÏó´«Ã½ must commission a quarter of its online work from external suppliers, so Pact members are concerned at loss of work."
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wii_400.jpgThe Press Red blog reports that there have been over one million iPlayer views on the Nintendo Wii downloads of the iPlayer Wii channel. (Ed's update: my error, now corrected.) There's also been a software upgrade that introduces new features like the Resume Playback function:

"You can now resume watching partially viewed programmes from the point you were watching previously, like you can on the web version of ´óÏó´«Ã½ iPlayer. Plus we have added a list of your previously watched programmes. You can see that in action within the improved home page."
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Phil Bradley bemoans the "sad state of ´óÏó´«Ã½ search" on ("Where librarians and the internet meet: internet searching, Web 2.0 resources, search engines and their development") which has prompted a .

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On The Editors Steve Hermann is asking for your feedback on how ´óÏó´«Ã½ news should link to external sources.


Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog.

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