I’ve created a bookmarklet for use with the BBC’s new messageboard system (which currently includes Points of View, 6 Music and 1xtra, although it’ll eventually replace all their cranky old messageboards). The bookmarklet enables you to ‘subscribe’ and ‘unsubscribe’ to threads, which can then be tracked via your ‘space’ on one of the sites (see [...]
The slightly bewilderingly name Yahoo! MyWeb 2.0 marks and attempt by Yahoo! to clawl some credibility back to its search offerings. It consists of a few features, most of which can already be found elsewhere: Saving search history – As seen at: A9 and Google. Implementation: nothing special, the switch to turn it off isn’t [...]
h2g2 is a user-created encyclopedia project intitially set up by the late Douglas Adams and then sold to the BBC. This week, ‘a girl called Ben’ has written the first of a four-part article looking at the site’s future in light of the recent Government Green Paper about the BBC. The article includes a comparison [...]
Dan Dixon, a BBCi technical architect, has posted a blog post with some thoughts on where the BBC should be going with its online community offerings. He starts from the observation that in social networks (or YASNs – a dodgy new acronym meaning ‘Yet Another Social Network’), the people with friends end up getting more [...]
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours at BBC Bush House taking part in a ‘user testing’ session for the iCan [Update: now called Action Network] website. It was co-incidentally the same day as the Hutton Report results came out, damning the BBC in favour of the government, and so the mood was pretty sombre, [...]
My friend Dave Thair pointed me towards Meme-nto [2008: link now dead], a concept site which examines how internet discussion is governed by impermanence. In simple terms, it’s a messageboard where only the last three messages are displayed – others are lost into the ether. This is meant to mimic what happens in offline conversations, [...]