I’ve been undertaking some consultancy work down here in sunny Brighton and was fortunate enough to be around for the start of a very interesting video focused website build; whose details I can’t go into until it’s live of course.
We had a few solutions along the way as to how we were going to enable users to upload their own videos and so forth. Attempting to use YouTube wasn’t as straightforward as expected and so another route needed to be found. The guys at Bionic Media were kind enough to tell us about Limelight Networks and their UGC framework which does all the upload, storage and delivery you could possibly need if delivering videos to your users.
It’s new and is only just being utilised for it’s first few projects just now but is based on their usual global structure that a lot of the big media firms hire Limelight Networks for. Worth checking out.
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So I’m all for Facebook and it’s ilk in a general fashion. In fact I’m spending a lot of my time working out ways for clients to reach customers on these sites; and often advising them that it is the wrong route for their particular campaign.
And I do quite like Facebook and think it’s functionality is excellent. The photo recognition is particulary impressive. But why oh why do very good friends of mine insist on emailing me via Facebook?! They have my usual personal email address and my mobile number so why irritate me by using FB? So I get an email saying such and such has sent you an email via FB when they could’ve just as easily sent the same pub invitation to me via my usual email address.
It’s madness I tell you. Not too mention Facebooks possible identity theft implications that I might get into another day. But you aren’t silly enough to make your profile public now are you?
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Bruce and his cohorts have mostly been presiding over an evenings entertainment at:
The Eagle – North Laines
The Hampton and The Windmill – Montpelier Terrace
The Caxton Arms – North Gardens
And we’ve had a fine meal at The Coach House down on Middle Street. Wonderful service! And lunch at The View down on Marine Parade was good with top food and of course the view over the seafront.
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I am a bit of a history nut with the whole phrase ‘we study the past to understand the present and throw light upon the future’, reverberating within me whenever I watch the nightly news.
So thought I’d share this interesting fact with you that Martin Kettle wrote about in the Guardian last Saturday. To summarise, it’s generally perceived that the first day of the horrific Battle of the Somme was the bloodiest in our history with 19,200 soldiers falling in just that one day. Apparently though more Englishmen died at the Battle of Towtown on March 29th 1461 with estimates anywhere between 20 and 28,000 killed in just that one day. And killed of course by sword, arrow and spear and not by bullet or shell.
Quite horrific if you imagine then the scale of that slaughter. One in every 100 Englishmen died on that day. So an event with huge impact that doesn’t feature heavily in the teaching of our history and I think certainly deserves some more research from me.
Oh, and the Yorkists won the day against the House of Lancaster in case you didn’t know.
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