Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 06 March 2007 14:02 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> BBC and IBM Create Strategic Alliance to Embrace the Digital Future
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Ashley Highfield, BBC Director of Future Media & Technology, said:
>>>| "This alliance with IBM will offer new and genuinely innovative
>>>| services to our audiences. For example, combining the BBC's massive
>>>| TV and radio archive with IBM's cutting-edge research into video
>>>| and audio search technology should provide the means to unlocking
>>>| huge latent value in our long tail of content."
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070305/0222604.htm
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ahh, sanity is dawning at last. I do wonder if IBM didn't approach the
>> BBC when they saw what was going on - I know that I would have done had
>> I been them.
>
> There was a rather silly article about it, with another illusionary buzzword
> -- Web 3.0. This had me wonder, however, because the BBC had a deal which
> involved buildign a Web 2.0 portal with Microsoft. I doubt anyone is getting
> the boot though...
>
No, they won't - these things just don't work that way. Bear in mind
that probably almost no money has changed hands between the beeb and MS,
so there'll be no major waste (so far), plus IBM have been invlved
rapidly enough that there'll be no major red faces by the time things
start to appear for real. To a certain degree, you could argue that the
consultation exercise had some value, although I remain concerned about
the statement that says "DRM is required" without a single thread of
analysis or justification. It sounds to me like that was fed from
Microsoft, not from elsewhere.
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