Foursquare for media.

"It will help you find shows that others have not only watched, but are talking about. Hopefully it'll throw up a few hidden gems. People's interest, attention and engagement with shows are more important to Shownar than viewing figures; the audience size of a documentary on BBC FOUR, for instance, will never approach that of EastEnders, but if that documentary sparks a lot of interest and comment - even discussion - we want to highlight it."

"Shownar tracks millions of blogs and Twitter plus other microblogging services, and finds people talking about BBC telly and radio. Then it datamines to see where the conversations are and what shows are surprisingly popular. You can explore the shows at Shownar itself. It’s an experimental prototype we’ve designed and built for the BBC over the last few months"

"Tracks the online buzz around BBC shows. It's an experimental prototype."

"Graph mentions of any word on national U.S. television"

"According to new figures from Nielsen Online some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began."

US digital -> analogue TV switchover site.

"A new study by Simmons, a unit of Experian Research Services has found that consumers are 47% more engadged by ads that run with television programs viewed online than those watched on a TV set."

"BitTorrent and the like are simply new distribution models and the number of our viewers choosing to view our content this way is as relevant as those still choosing to watch on broadcast television. What’s missing is the definitive business model for

Unofficial Flash iPlayer announcement with quick round-up of the competition.

"Just Add Wetpaint gives businesses an easy way to generate an official community, as has been done with CSI, Dexter, Tmobile, the always-awesome Myth Busters, and even Oracle."

"A day after each segment's initial airing, it also will be presented on Quarterlife.com, a social networking site that Zwick and Herskovitz are starting with an aim to connect young creative people to one another and to the resources they need."

"Create a Film4 Mash-Up or Widget and Win £1500!"

"Platform 4, best described as the geeky arm of UK TV station Channel 4, has announced a widget contest at the WidgetyGoodness conference in Brighton today."

"The video content includes a few adverts that play in-show similar to standard TV broadcasts. All of the available films are high quailty and in surround sound."

"You can’t skip the ads or remove them without making the film unwatchable. But it does mean the file could go anywhere on the Net and still show adverts based on the user’s preferences when the registered to get the codec."

Cohen credits DVD sales as the force behind Futurama's return. "This new revenue stream saved our neck," he says. "A few years from now, when Internet speeds are better, maybe one person buys it and shares it with a hundred of their friends."

"The BBC has commissioned a new daytime Australian soap after losing the long-running show Neighbours in a bidding war with Five."

"The lesson learnt by MTV Networks subsidary, Comedy Central, when it made the entire archive of “The Daily Show” available for streaming online, is that Internet TV viewing can lead to more traditional television viewing."

"Rossi declined to disclose how much Verizon paid for the "30 Rock" integration but said that in addition to fees, it provided marketing support for the show with a co-branded ad in Maxim magazine and promotional content on VerizonWireless.com."

"The DVDs basically have a little more material than the episodes will have, but we actually put in a few treats in the episodes that are not on the DVDs, so you know... we want to reward people no matter how they come back to Futurama, we want to give th

"77% of today’s online youth would rather live without television than live without the Internet."

For Suburban Shootout. Assume it's official. Looks dead.

"The new service [...] will be launched in 2008 and will include free downloads, streaming, show rental and purchase via the internet, with possible future expansion onto other platforms."

"Kangaroo will have wide implications for the BBC’s iPlayer and Channel 4’s 4oD service, with the latter being replaced by the new joint service. The smallest UK TV player, Channel 5 (owned by RTL of Germany), is conspicuous by its absence from the ve

On KateModern: "The whole thing is filmed in one take, in five minutes flat at 6pm, in the middle of rush-hour traffic. The film is then posted on the social networking site Bebo, where you can log on daily to catch up on the storylines and post comments.

"Responsible for providing estimates of the number of people watching television. This includes which channels and programmes are being watched, at what time, and the type of people who are watching at any one time."

"The organisation that compiles television ratings in the United Kingdom [..] currently, BARB have approximately 5,100 homes". How crazy is it that 5,100 households dictate UK TV ratings? Will VOD fix this?

"'One of the big criticisms of Neighbours' fans is that the BBC never promoted the show,' said Murphy. 'Five might make a bit more of a fanfare about it, so it might even be for the benefit of the show in the end.'"

"Provides information on all current TV and radio programmes across the BBC."

"The closing date for tenders to run the “targeted help” scheme to help the elderly and disabled in the switchover to Digital TV from analogue has now passed."

"Some people call it a 'TiVo for the internet' or a 'Firefox for videos'." Both of which are kind of dumb things to say. Looks good, though.

"Access to thousands of shots from the vast and diverse archives of the BBC"

"Converting British households to digital viewing is proving more difficult than expected - and could have major political repercussions, says Conal Walsh"

"An entertainment company located near Vancouver BC Canada which focuses on producing humorous original content for the internet and beyond."

"Does anyone know how the development of digital TV will affect the reception of sign language, sub-titling, and audio description services for deaf people and visually impaired viwers respectively?"

"This report examines the user needs of older and disabled people in relation to digital TV and provides solutions that would make digital TV equipment more suitable and usable for them."

"Second the XBox w/modchip. Easy to use, turns on and off like any device, install as big a hard drive as you like, FTP any video formats over to it (or play directly over the LAN), plays back up to 1080i."

"While Azureus and µTorrent both have built-in RSS parsing and downloading features, Ted is the most user-friendly, simplest solution I’ve seen for downloading television on a schedule, and since all it does is download the torrent and open it in your

"Add your favourite tv shows to ted and ted will automatically download torrents of new episodes!"

"The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com."

Well, that needs fixing...

"3 Parts. Broadcast 9 - 9.50pm on Tuesday 19th, Wednesday 20th & Thursday 21st April 2005, BBC FOUR."

Look Around You - back on BBC TWO and back to the future via the Eighties - Starts Monday 31 January, 10.00pm

"Nathan Barley has finally got a place in the C4 schedules - 10pm, Friday 11 Feb."