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Submission + - BBC iPlayer content for Linux goes live (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

leftcase

on Friday December 14, 2007 @07:39AM

leftcase writes: "BBC iPlayer support for Linux has arrived (kind of). Although programming is currently delivered using Flash, the quality isn't all that bad and heck, at least you can watch BBC TV at work now.....

Cheers BBC, ta very much!"

Submission + - Digg still affected by year-old controversy

Submitted by holy_calamity on Friday December 14, 2007 @07:24AM

holy_calamity writes: A researcher at UCSD suggests that Digg is still feeling the consequences of annoying its top users back in September 2006. At the time, Kevin Rose responded to accusations that relatively small numbers of users had control of Digg's frontpage by tweaking his algorithm to penalise people that often digg the same stories. Top ranked users got angry and even quit Digg. In a paper in the pre-print Arxiv, the researcher used data scraped from digg to show "a general decline in individual user participation on Digg" that persists today. After the recent Facebook u-turns, proof that annoying your users can have long-lasting effects.

Submission + - Demonoid Shutdown

Submitted by

Broxx

on Friday November 09, 2007 @11:43PM

Broxx writes: "Demonoid.com is no longer available. Apparently it has been shut down by the CRIA. The message on their site says: "The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.""

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