http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/feb/05/flappy-bird-new-angry-birds-makes-rage-apps Flappy Bird is not the new Angry Birds - it's pure rage In a single week, it has become the No 1 free app on Google Play's app store. But this game with a pudgy green bird isn't fun to play - it just sends you into a fury Flappy Bird is the No 1 free app in the Google Play app store. Since its launch on the site last week, it has become such a phenomenon that people are already calling it the new Angry Birds. In it, you control a pudgy green bird. Tap the screen once and the bird soars into the air. Leave the screen untapped and it plummets to the ground. The bird lives in a world full of pipes, and you have to guide it through the gaps between them. If the bird misses one gap - just one, no matter how glancingly - it dies, and you have to start again. - Flappy birds was originally launched in May 2013, but all off a sudden everyone has been downloading it from play app store, the use of word of mouth advertisement had become big, and everyone has been telling their family/friends to download it, hence it being no1 on the play app store. The game is really frustrating as it is hard to get through the pipes. However, it really challenges you and makes people want to play more until they get a good highest score.
Sunday, 16 March 2014
Weekly NDM #12
Weekly NDM #11
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/10/media-briefing-monday-10-february
Public service broadcasters join forces on catch-up service for smart TVs
BBC, Channel 4 and ITV work to make catch-up services available as standard on smart TVs under Freeview Connect brand
BBC, Channel 4 and ITV work to make catch-up services available as standard on smart TVs under Freeview Connect brand
BBC chief: no more comedy shows with all-male panels
Corporation is acting on recommendations by the Trust to boost female presence on screen
Corporation is acting on recommendations by the Trust to boost female presence on screen
Libération journalists fight investors' vision for future of French newspaper
Staff fear shareholders are intent on making money from brand and building, 'with no mention of journalism'
Staff fear shareholders are intent on making money from brand and building, 'with no mention of journalism'
Line of Duty's Jed Mercurio: 'I like to write characters who are conflicted'
Maggie Brown: The creator of the BBC2 hit on his fascination with corruption in public service – and why Lennie James is a great leading man
Maggie Brown: The creator of the BBC2 hit on his fascination with corruption in public service – and why Lennie James is a great leading man
Advertising sales could transform as programmatic trading takes off
Computer auction-based system is set to go beyond its roots in display sector but questions remain on transparency
Computer auction-based system is set to go beyond its roots in display sector but questions remain on transparency
Danny Cohen: 'TV panel shows without women are unacceptable'
The BBC's director of television talks to Rachel Cooke about sending executives back to the floor, the fallout from the Savile scandal and the 'joy' of Mrs Brown's Boys
The BBC's director of television talks to Rachel Cooke about sending executives back to the floor, the fallout from the Savile scandal and the 'joy' of Mrs Brown's Boys
Guardian's Georgina Henry dies aged 53
Launch editor of Comment is Free was 'a real pioneer', says Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger
Launch editor of Comment is Free was 'a real pioneer', says Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger
Simon Cowell to return to The X Factor UK
Music mogul to return as a judge in the ITV talent show for the first time in four years in bid to reverse ratings slide
Music mogul to return as a judge in the ITV talent show for the first time in four years in bid to reverse ratings slide
Weekly NDM #10
Social networks to face government grilling over suicide promotion
The culture secretary is expected to demand greater action from networks over sites promoting self-harm and suicide
Tallulah Wilson, 15, died after being hit by a train in St Pancras station. Photograph: Eggmedia/PA
Culture secretary Maria Miller is to call on social networks such as Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook to crack down on cyberbullying in a dedicated summit scheduled for the next few weeks.
The plans follow the suicide of a London schoolgirl, Tallulah Wilson, who had spent months accessing blogs about self-harm and suicide on Tumblr beforehand.
Her mother, Sarah Wilson, described Tallulah having entered "a world where the lines between fantasy and reality became blurred", and called on companies to "withdraw their advertising from those sites who continue to host inappropriate self-harming and suicide-promoting blogs to stop this poison spreading".
Miller is expected to echo Wilson's call, and demand that social networks be more proactive about tackling content which could be harmful to younger users.
The government is reportedly feeling emboldened having won the fight over filters on the internet, and is now aiming to do the same thing for social media sites.
Weekly NDM #9
Schools monitoring on-line bullying with slang translation software
Program used at 1,400 schools, which also tracks self-harm, checks internet communications against dictionary of slang
More than a thousand British schools are monitoring pupils' online communication for bullying and self-harm using software that analyses andtranslates slang for teachers.
The software uses a constantly updated dictionary which includes words that most adults would not understand. These include acronyms such as "gnoc" (get naked on camera) and "dirl" (die in real life) and words such as Bio-Oil, a commercial product which can be used by children who self-harm to reduce the appearance of scarring.
The program also monitors more conventional vocabulary used in bullying such as homophobia and taunts of "terrorist" at children of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent.
The software is part of an education package made by Impero. Jonathan Valentine, a developer, said the program had alerted teachers to potential suicides.
"We originally developed the software to deal with misbehaviour, but we decided to focus on e-safety and came up with the idea of a dictionary of certain words and phrases," he told the Times Educational Supplement.
Weekly NDM #8
BBC targets social media users with Instagram video news
Corporation hopes to reach new audiences as mobile and tablet viewing figures overtake desktop
BBC News is stepping up its efforts to reach new audiences on social media platforms after mobile and tablet viewing figures overtook desktop use for the first time in December.
On 16 January, BBC News launched Instafax, a new short-form video news service delivered to Instagram users. The project is a month-long experiment, with three 15-second videos uploaded a day, intended to serve as a roundup of the day's news.
The name is a throwback to the BBC’s former Ceefax service – the world’s first teletext service that ran on UK television until 2012. This is described as the updated version of a text-based, short-form news service for the digital age
Weekly NDM #7
BBC news chief: problems facing local newspapers 'not our fault'
James Harding responds to calls for BBC to rein in coverage, telling press to focus on web rivals such as Google or Facebook
James Harding responds to calls for BBC to rein in coverage, telling press to focus on web rivals such as Google or Facebook
James Harding, the BBC News director, believes the corporation has an obligation to deliver local news and the problems facing local newspapers are"not the BBC's fault".
Harding, the former Times editor, in his first public speech since joining the BBC in August last year, said he thought the view that the corporation should limit its local news output for fear of damaging local newspapers was mistaken.
He added that the BBC thrived on competition with local papers and would do "anything to help" them, but they should be worrying about internet rivals such as Google and Facebook, not the corporation. As the internet is rising highly on a daily basis people today are more immune to finding out the news by themselves anytime any day of the week. Therefore, today newspapers locally aren't doing well. For example, the papers that are posted to my doors in the morning are now free. Previously, it used to be sold normally for 80p. But now, as there is no success of the newspapers they come to our door free of charge because only then would the house holds read the local news. In this article, newspapers were blaming the BBC.
Weekly NDM #6
There's been a big increase in the number of people who have stopped sending expensive Christmas cards this year and turned to video instead to express their greetings.
Holderness, couldn't resist putting on their Christmas jammies for a rap video, which also features their children, Lola and Penn Charles. Penn has just left his job to join forces with Kim to start a production company in Raleigh, North Carolina. With more than 3 million people viewing their Christmas effort on YouTube, it could be the best business ad they will ever make.
If that was a good day at the office for the Holderness family, KSN Wichita anchor Justin Kraemer had his worst one. Justin got the sack after turning into Ron Burgundy when he signed off at the end of the news on Saturday evening. Listen to what he says as the closing credits roll … (Caution: contains un-Christmassy language)
In the past few years as the internet has increased heavily, this has moved many people to convert to the internet even seasons such as xmas. As they hit instagram and twitter to show there family xmas pictures or to say a well wish to all the fans etc out there.
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