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BBC – BBC Internet Blog: BBC launches Enhanced Search

I’ve been a bit late to the party on this one, the BBC have a photography blog called Viewfinder, and rather good it is too.

Johnathan Ross and Stephen Fry chatted about Twitter just now on Johnathan’s return to his show. Both are big Twitter users and I follow them both.

Twitter has gone mad with new users and chat about it.

Looks like Stephen was watching too.

Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross set Twitter alight

Why Britain is suddenly all a-twitter

Twitter traffic up 974 per cent in a year

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7845823.stm

Why celebrities love Twittering

I completely missed the fact that the BBC re-designed all their TV channel landing pages to include live streaming of each channel and integrated with the schedule listings, giving each episode of each programme on every TV channel which in turn is linked to the iPlayer. There is also a new TV schedule homepage and one for Programmes.

I love it, and it is very slick with a very smart, accessible and classy design.

They get it right time and time again on the web the BBC. Their phenomenal resources help massively of course!

BBC Internet Blog Post: 16 Sept 2008.

Plane crash into Hudson River by grego!

Social media in action – Flickr had photos of this before the BBC News Online did and Twitter had the story before it was on their home page. Amazing shot of the passengers on the planes wings. I’m going to use this as a case study one day.

Update: They keep coming this twitter user Janis Krums is on one of the ferries his twitpic is here.

Update 2: Rory Cellan-Jones has blogged about what I was thinking last night – that the Hudson crash broke on twitter. He also heard about Steve Job’s medical leave through the service too.

Update 3: The bandwagon – Znet | VentureBeat | Silicon Alley Insider

Update 4: Kottke does a nice round up of the new videos

Another video I found: Twitter’s iconic image of US Airways plane

Twitter to hit the big time with explosion in microblogging

Great result for Chris Hoy, and for Team GB over all, a lovely reminder of what an amazing summer of sport we had this year.

This looks amazing, and check it out – you can finally embed BBC video! Well, for this project you can:

As Nick Cohen explains here, “One nice new feature is embeddable video: you can click on “SHARE” and host the clips, for example in your blog” – thanks Nick, I have.

The series launches on August 10 on BBC One at 9pm and BBC Two at 10pm.

People blatantly stealing the BBC homepage code is cracking on:

BBC Internet blog post

How HRT failed in their intention to become Croatian BBC

Croatian HRT rips-off BBC.co.uk

Imitation, flattery and the BBC

Little Ilford School

For some reason, the school really annoys me with it’s blatant plagiarism, I hope the pupils and parents have taken note. It is staggering, they have not even changed the metadata!

…come to an end…

You can share BBC News video now, thanks to their new EMP (embedded midea player).

Here is one of my faves:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7348931.stm

no sign of being able to embed it on your own site yet mind you, that will be the coolest, and can’t be too far away!