Comments for Up Your Ego http://www.upyourego.com/blog How to survive the 21st Century Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:07:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 Comment on Licence fee and the internet by BBC HATER http://www.upyourego.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/18/licence-fee-and-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-88596 BBC HATER Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:47:25 +0000 http://www.upyourego.com/blog/?p=2024#comment-88596 The BBC is a disgusting corporation built on greed. I may eventually be required by law to pay a fee for services I do not, and do not ever intend to use. The BBC should remove there media from the internet, then people will not be able to abuse that service at all. I feel that the BBC is pushing to have everyone pay regardless of whether they watch the service or not, its dispicable. This kind of behaviour makes me feel like we should have surrendered to the germans during the war and saved a hell of alot of lives in the proccess. The BBC is forcing there corporate tax nation wide and should be ashamed. DOWN WITH THE BBC. The BBC is a disgusting corporation built on greed. I may eventually be required by law to pay a fee for services I do not, and do not ever intend to use. The BBC should remove there media from the internet, then people will not be able to abuse that service at all. I feel that the BBC is pushing to have everyone pay regardless of whether they watch the service or not, its dispicable. This kind of behaviour makes me feel like we should have surrendered to the germans during the war and saved a hell of alot of lives in the proccess. The BBC is forcing there corporate tax nation wide and should be ashamed. DOWN WITH THE BBC.

]]> Comment on Imitation, flattery and the BBC by Freetracking.org » Kayak broadside hits Microsoft’s search redesign http://www.upyourego.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/16/imitation-flatter-and-the-bbc/comment-page-1/#comment-88370 Freetracking.org » Kayak broadside hits Microsoft’s search redesign Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:09:42 +0000 http://www.upyourego.com/blog/?p=1215#comment-88370 [...] Travel search remains one of the most profitable parts of Microsoft’s search business alongside its local and shopping search engines. Microsoft purchased Farecast in 2008 to boost its profile in the travel search market. It was then integrated deeply into Microsoft’s MSN properties, and now Bing. Other high-profile design similarities in recent history have involved AOL’s beta site, which looked suspiciously close to Yahoo’s front page; Google’s Chrome browser logo; and Croatian Radiotelevision’s BBC-like redesign. [...] [...] Travel search remains one of the most profitable parts of Microsoft’s search business alongside its local and shopping search engines. Microsoft purchased Farecast in 2008 to boost its profile in the travel search market. It was then integrated deeply into Microsoft’s MSN properties, and now Bing. Other high-profile design similarities in recent history have involved AOL’s beta site, which looked suspiciously close to Yahoo’s front page; Google’s Chrome browser logo; and Croatian Radiotelevision’s BBC-like redesign. [...]

]]> Comment on iPlayer pick: JAM by David http://www.upyourego.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/10/iplayer-pick-jam/comment-page-1/#comment-88266 David Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:16:41 +0000 http://www.upyourego.com/blog/?p=1886#comment-88266 Bzzz… deviation from the English language as we know it: "All of whome." Bzzz… deviation from the English language as we know it: "All of whome."

]]> Comment on Bands: Don’t go with Facebook by Chris Almond http://www.upyourego.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/23/bands-dont-go-with-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-86686 Chris Almond Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:11:14 +0000 http://www.upyourego.com/blog/?p=1981#comment-86686 Hi, interesting article. I think the migration to Facebook by bands setting up fan pages is welcome. Facebook are developing their interface in step with another successful service, Twitter, by providing automatic, and real-time updates to users of the friends and pages they subscribe to (though not groups). This is something that would work well on MySpace, but as it is, if a band sends out a bulletin the chances of it being read are very low indeed. You'd have to search for the bulletins link to find it. MySpace haven't grasped this obvious point, that users would like information about members of their personal network first, and most prominent, and adverts for junk second (at least). Another issue with MySpace which make it unsuitable as a main brand hub is that sent mail is deleted after 30 days, so you have manually back it up. Facebook is where people who are serious about networking go (for now) and yes, I believe that includes musicians. You can build a collection of your own music, videos, photos, allow fans to contribute to your presence there as respected co-authors, and build workable, trusting associations with other individuals and groups a great deal better than is, and will ever be possible on MySpace. There will be a time when Facebook will be replaced by something better, maybe Twitter will be the thing - it has the potential. But for now, no-one is doing it better. By the way, nowhere in Facebook information about their new username policy have they said users have to pay anything. It clearly seems to be a free feature. Hi, interesting article.

I think the migration to Facebook by bands setting up fan pages is welcome. Facebook are developing their interface in step with another successful service, Twitter, by providing automatic, and real-time updates to users of the friends and pages they subscribe to (though not groups). This is something that would work well on MySpace, but as it is, if a band sends out a bulletin the chances of it being read are very low indeed. You'd have to search for the bulletins link to find it. MySpace haven't grasped this obvious point, that users would like information about members of their personal network first, and most prominent, and adverts for junk second (at least).

Another issue with MySpace which make it unsuitable as a main brand hub is that sent mail is deleted after 30 days, so you have manually back it up.

Facebook is where people who are serious about networking go (for now) and yes, I believe that includes musicians. You can build a collection of your own music, videos, photos, allow fans to contribute to your presence there as respected co-authors, and build workable, trusting associations with other individuals and groups a great deal better than is, and will ever be possible on MySpace.

There will be a time when Facebook will be replaced by something better, maybe Twitter will be the thing - it has the potential. But for now, no-one is doing it better.

By the way, nowhere in Facebook information about their new username policy have they said users have to pay anything. It clearly seems to be a free feature.

]]> Comment on Who let Clarkson programme Glasto? by Phil http://www.upyourego.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/27/who-let-jc-programme-glasto/comment-page-1/#comment-86125 Phil Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:00:23 +0000 http://www.upyourego.com/blog/?p=2031#comment-86125 Neil Young, The Specials, Fleet Foxes, Crosby Stills & Nash, Blur, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - this sounds awesome. What's your problem with Dad Rock? ;) Neil Young, The Specials, Fleet Foxes, Crosby Stills & Nash, Blur, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - this sounds awesome. What's your problem with Dad Rock? ;)

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