Digital Corner

In the News

• YouTube, bigger than BBC in UK

• Royal Mail loses Amazon's £8m second class mailing account:
• The loss of the account is a blow to Royal Mail, which has cited higher costs as a direct reason for not being able to modernise operations and retain customers
• Earlier this month, Royal Mail union members voted for industrial action after rejecting the company's 2.5% pay rise offer

• The percentage of households with digital television rose from 77.3% to 80.5% during the first quarter of 2007 (Ofcom)
• 20.4m UK households now have digital TV equipment connected to their main television

• Murdoch's News Corporation is in talks with Yahoo! over selling MySpace for £6.2bn for a 25% stake of the digital giant

• 16 UK agencies clinched 28 shortlist entries in the Cyber Lions at the Cannes Lions 2007 advertising festival. Glue London led the British pack with a tally of seven shortlisted entries for Royal Navy recruitment, Mini, Coca-Cola and Adidas

• MySpace announces a beta for its IM

• Nintendo, Pret a Manger and Joost have been identified as the latest wildfire brands that spread rapidly and weave themselves into the fabric of every day life:
  
  Speaking at the Cannes the director at Leo Burnett singled out a series of brands that he claims are proving the creative and financial potential of the new media landscape. Dale said that Nintendo had put a bomb under the gaming market with launch of its Wii console, claiming the device has been marketed in such as way that consumers all over the world now want to give it a try.

• Addfone, an iPhone apps directory. Already?

• Windows Live Messenger jump on the 'Making a difference' bandwagon!
  

Blogging

• Social media burnout? YES YES AND YES
• Forget eBay-Google fracas: Daily Motion, YouTube cat fight is more fun
• YouTube offers online editing
• YouTube launches its own mobile site
• How private are your conversations on MySpace and Facebook?

Websites

• Question: If web design makes the new information age possible—if it creates new markets and new products, generates significant global cash flow, changes the way companies and non-profits interact with the public, and employs untold legions of specialists—why, until now, hasn’t anybody tried to find out more about it as an industry? Read Jeffrey Zeldmans article.

• Recently we've seen a spate of DIY web-build sites, so now any one can build a website now - right? Erm, read why it's not quite as simple as that.

• Now we all know that one of the first things in web-design is not to simply throw printed content straight on to the web. So how should we go about it then? Here's how the Guardian newspaper did it.

Progress?

For all the news from Cannes see: www.canneslionslive.com/

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