HAHAHA! Go on, HOST YOUR NEWS on FACEBOOK, FOOLS! Facebook has inked news-hosting deals with nine media outfits, including the BBC and Buzzfeed, in a move to slurp ad revenue from publishers and keep netizens locked into its site for even longer. The Mark Zuckerberg-run company said that its free content ad network would initially offer Apple iOS users of the Facebook app a …
Why...
...do the BBC insist on promoting these companies and jumping in bed with them all the time?
Judging by their activities of late it appears to be a combination of rampant stupidity and desperation. It's license fee negotiation time again, and they now have to explain why they lost a good £50M per annum in revenue by mishandling the Top Gear affair. That's a large hole to negotiate around, so they will grab anything that looks remotely like it'll bring revenue.
As for Facebook, I closed that account end of December and I'm glad I did - you only notice just how much time you waste there (that you could spend posting here :) ) after you close it down.
Never again.
Tweets and Facebook comments give the Beb an idea of who's listening and watching their output. It also ticks the box labelled 'interacting with the audience' - nobody could accuse them of just ignoring them if they keep soliciting communication. And social media is trendy (or was a few years ago) and this makes the Beeb look modern, go-ahead, fab, groovy etc. Cynical? Not me!
Quick search: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/speed-is-a-killer/
Personally, if a page just showing text takes > 1 sec, my immediate reaction is "Fscking idiots, bye."
Even with images/movies, having to wait more than 3 secs gives me a bad impression.
And no, I am not sitting on a fat line anyone could possibly be envious abit.
surely bitter experience?
Yup. That's what you get with auto-correct :).
The new BBC news website is, well, I think disastrous would be too complimentary. It seems to be designed for people who read their news on a VGA screen, and, even more irritating, it doesn't work if you have AdBlock enabled.
So they didn't just lose me program-wise (there are maybe 3 programs a week left that I watch), they also lost me online. Idiots.
Having been percolating in Facebook's R&D labs for well over three years, the Facebook Internet Plugin is now a reality.
Now, due to the wonders of web technology, a user can access the entire internet from within Facebook. "Think of the possibilities," said a breathless Facebook scientist, "You could be chatting with friends through Facebook Messenger, and then quickly search for something on Google, or even Bing!"
The rich possibilities that have been exposed through this breakthrough technology can't be quantified, said Bloomberg. Because Facebook users now have access to the entire Internet, the value of the company has now grown to encompass the planetary GDP, or $37 Trillion.
The nicest irony of that time was that you actually needed a really rubbish recorder to play it back.
You could throw almost anything at that interface, gummed up heads, bent capstan, rubber roll with a dent, messed up azimuth alignment, even if the tape deck was certainly no longer capable of playing back anything remotely considered as "music", it would still be good enough to load software. However, if you would use a good, well maintained high quality deck it would not work for love nor money.
I sometimes miss the whole belt & braces nature of the IT world then. You know, when men were men, leatherman tools had not yet been invented and expanding storage meant using a hole punch on the edge of a 5.25" floppy so you could use the uncertified side (etc etc - I must work some more on my old codger routine) :).
Did you know your programs by their sounds? If so: welcome to the club! For me that (knowing programs by their chirps) was on both ZX81 and Apple ][, the latter a clone I had to assemble (solder) myself. Ah, and on ZX81 you could recognize them by the specific way the screen got garbled "fast mode", feck yeah!
Am I old?
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