David Black

“Three YouTube channels – one for news and two for entertainment – will showcase short clips of BBC content.”

“the BBC is missing out not getting it’s act together and having a way this can be displayed in a custom BBC-embedded player that can properly link back to the relevant BBC site for the clip… the BBC has waived it’s right to sue YouTube for any copy

“the primary axiom of online communities: Small software implementation details result in big differences in the way the community develops, behaves, and feels.”

“When information is abundant, the false positives are very costly “

“Telegraph TV will go live on March 5 with the Business Show, presented by city editor Damian Reece and Sunday Telegraph city editor Dan Roberts, as the first programme.”

Comments on stories, registration, RSS, Ajax, white space.

“From an uber-view, what strikes me is that we are seeing a coalescing among the news sites around a roughly common aesthetic… less-cluttered with more white space… We are establishing a visual grammar for news,”

“Should BBC correspondents writing for the News website write in blogs, or in conventional diaries/columns” Pros and cons.

Emails you a transcript of your voicemail messages almost immediately. Wonder whether this will ever work with the office phone system, and if there’s a UK equivalent?

“it does not appear that interest in local search is increasing, but the substantial growth in Yelp’s traffic indicates that the social networking/local search combo is an effective means of engaging users around local content.”

“the assets of the eight person company have been acquired by Cisco. This follows their acquisition of Five Across, a social networking infrastructure service, two weeks ago.”

Mark Andreessen: “The existing social networks…are restrictive about what you can and can’t do, and they were not built to be flexible. They do not let people build and design their own worlds, which is the nature of what people want to do online”

“DoubleClick’s UK arm has bought UK-based online ad technology provider Tangozebra for about $30 million.”

My links find themselves in illustrious company in Journalism.co.uk’s journalism blog aggregator.

AOL’s Andy Jonesco joins Sky as head of digital strategy. Julian Gorniok, formerly at GCap, also moves to Sky. David Wolffe, SVP of corporate development and M&A at AOL Europe, becomes new AOL UK MD.

“Following last month’s forecast drop in magazine sales, Emap has announced that it is to invest £25m in its digital products. The publisher plans to increase its percentage of revenue derived from digital from 10 per cent to 30 per cent by 2010″

“The social networking site topped the list of favorite sites in Youth Trends’ most recent quarterly survey, and it is now the first choice of nearly 70% of females ages 17-25.”

“the mainstream press, though late to the party, figures out how to make serious money from the Internet, uses the Web to enrich traditional journalistic forms, and retains its professionalism—along with a readership that is part print, part Web”