BBC site founder picks up OBE
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Mike Smartt, founder of the BBC News website, picked up his OBE at Buckingham Palace on Thursday.
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Media & professional: TV firm gains access to online community of 15m.
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The BBC announces a Â£3 million package of investments to raise the profile of current affairs on BBC One.
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Viewers skip swarms to join streams The BBC's Flash-based streaming service has gifted a massive traffic boost to the iPlayer site since it went live in mid-December, independent figures have revealed.â¦
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By Nic Fildes  Last.FM, the London-based music-recommendation internet site, has been snapped up by the US media giant CBS for [pound]140m in cash, the largest-ever acquisition of a UK social networking company.
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A paying passenger reports for the BBC News website about his experiences on the first commercial A380 flight.
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The online community MySpace is partnering with the BBC to bring some of the British broadcaster's programs to a worldwide audience in the site's first global content deal involving a major network.
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Also: Stephen Hawking looking for assistant. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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The founder of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia launches a service offering free tools for community websites.
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The Jimmy Wales-founded organization, which encompasses Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based sites, is appealing to its reader for donations to help expand its language reach (among other things).
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A website detailing the inner workings of leading tobacco firm British American Tobacco has been set up.
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The first public preview of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' new open-source search engine launched Monday. Even though the project is very young, it currently lacks many of the human-powered ranking and rating features that will enable it to emerge as a threat to current search leaders like Google.
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A new website is being launched in an attempt to strengthen patient choice.
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A month ago, I'd mentioned Nigel Pocklington's appointment to the newly created role of director of online publishing for the Financial Times .
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(InfoWorld) - Users of YouTube's online video service will soon be able to view news, TV series, documentaries, and other programs from the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC). Under the nonexclusive partnership, the BBC and its commercial subsidiary BBC Worldwide will create its own advertising-funded commercial "channels" on YouTube, the companies said Friday. The deal comes on the heels ofÂ revenue-sharing agreementsÂ YouTube has reached with other content providers, including Wind-up Records and the National Basketball Association, which plans its own NBA channel. The BBC is keen to broaden its audience and, in particular, use YouTube to generate new revenue. By promoting current programming via YouTube, the broadcasting company also hopes to attract users to its own Web-based, on-demand iPlayer service, formerly known as iMP (integrated Media Player). While the BBC, the U.K. public broadcaster, will provide advertising-free clips of news shows and promotional content linked to TV series such as "Doctor Who" and "Life on Mars," its commercial unit will offer an ad-funded entertainment channel, "BBC Worldwide," featuring clips from programs including "Top Gear," "Spooks" and "The Catherine Tate Show." Another channel, BBC World, will deliver around 30 news clips per day, with up-to-the-minute news and analysis from around the world. The content will come from the BBC Global News Division. Users will be able to comment on clips and post their own video responses to communicate with the BBC and other viewers. Advertising-funded clips will be available only to users outside the U.K. The BBC's deal with YouTube could spark criticism from media companies that accuse the broadcasting company of bending the rules of its public service broadcasting mission, funded by a compulsory license fee, by moving into commercial Web ventures. The company's new on-demand offerings, including the iPlayer service, are currently undergoing a "public value test" by the BBC Trust, which works on behalf of license-fee payers. The offerings have been given provisional approval pending a further consultation and final decision by May 2.
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Exclusive Canadian mountie, Olympics organiser and now ICANN Ombudsman
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Bebo, which describes itself as the No. 1 social network site in the UK and Ireland, has struck a deal with Yahoo that marks the Internet portal&#39;s first major agreement with a social-networking site. The ad deal includes direct sales for a majority of Bebo&#39;s display ads.