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TiVo and the VOD holy grail

Essential is of course platform-neutral, independent and impartial when it comes to media. But as a Virgin Media customer, I am almost salivating with excitement about the announcement today of this potential tie-up between Virgin Media and TiVo.

Although the FT describes it as a ‘rebuff to Project Canvas’, I’d imagine this has got [...]

Who says flow charts are boring?

Web 2.ohhhhhhh god please stop talking.

I’ve just been reading this Research Live contribution from Forrester analyst Tamara Barber, entitled “Market research catches up with Web 2.0”. Tamara confidently asserts that “it’s time for the industry to embrace online communities as a research tool.”

I’m constantly irritated by this assumption that the research industry has yet to wake up [...]

London’s lost Lite… Will anybody miss it?

It’s been nearly 2 months since the London Paper closed, and the London Lite is set to go on Friday. And quite frankly, aren’t we glad to see the back of them? Did we really need them in the first place? Was there ever such demand for scurrilous gossip about B-list celebrities that couldn’t be [...]