===================================================================== WebProNewsUK - BBC Faces Probable Loss To YouTube June 22, 2007 http://www.webpronews.co.uk/ ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* You need to make a conference call, and you need it now. Whether you are a Fortune 500 company or a small business just getting on your feet, you need to meet when and where it’s convenient for you. Set Up Your Account For Free And Start Conferencing Today! Try ConferenceCall.com Now! http://aj.600z.com/aj/29877/0/cc?z=1&b=29408&c=29876 ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* BBC Faces Probable Loss To YouTube Doug Caverly | Expert Author Talk about new media versus old: a report from Hitwise indicates that YouTube may soon overtake the main BBC site in terms of UK visits. "Last week, BBC.co.uk ranked #14 among All Categories of websites with 0.82% of all UK Internet visits compared to YouTube’s #25 ranking with 0.81% of UK Internet visits," reports Hitwise UK’s Vice President of Research, Heather Hopkins. That’s a very small difference in percentages, but a reasonably big difference in rankings. Still, as Hopkins continues, we find that "[t]he gap between the two websites is closing rapidly. Last week, BBC had a 1.6% lead on YouTube in share of UK visits, down from 37% three months ago and 131% six months ago." Yikes. A graph provided by Hitwise then puts the problem (as fans of the BBC might see it) into more visible terms: BBC.co.uk’s market share has been pretty flat since June of last year, with only a slight upward trend. YouTube’s line, on the other hand, has moved up at something approaching a 45-degree angle. "Share[s] of UK visits to BBC.co.uk continue to grow, up 13% year on year in May, however it is far outpaced by gains from YouTube. YouTube’s share of UK visits were up nearly 7-fold (669%) year on year in May and up 140% in the past six-months," interprets Hopkins. Still, this may not be quite as horrible as it could seem (again, in the opinion of BBC followers); the BBC has been known to make mash-ups with Google, and has actually signed a deal with YouTube itself. So some of that YouTube traffic may well be related to BBC videos. After all, who wouldn’t want to watch the Stig tear around in a Lamborghini and a Zonda? To view article links go here: http://www.webpronews.co.uk/0622links.html ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* Call the Domain Experts Today Find the perfect domain name & great tools for growing your business. BuyDomains.com. Business Starts Here. http://aj.600z.com/aj/30050/0/cc?z=1&b=30048&c=30049 ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* LG Google Phone Will Soon Land In Europe Doug Caverly | Expert Author A Google phone will soon arrive. Unfortunately for many WebProNews readers, it will not (yet) arrive in America. And unfortunately for everybody, it doesn’t incorporate any breakthrough features or technology. "Slightly stumpy but technically not too frumpy, the LG KU580 phone is just about to hit Europe," writes Pocket Picks’s Caspar Field. "The trump card up LG’s sleeve is that its handset will ship with Google service applications pre-installed, including Google Maps and Gmail." Yet, setting aside the hardware itself for a moment, there’s the matter of the Google phone’s launch schedule to consider. "Apparently the KU580 will land in Italy, France, Germany, Romania and the Czech Republic first," continues Field. "What? Why are the Romanians getting this before the UK? Madness." There’s also the whole iPhone thing. After all, if Google and Apple are trying to become such good friends, should one really be undercutting the other like this? (Granted, LG may have an equal or greater hand in the Google phone’s release than Google itself.) In any event, the Google phone appears ready and able to compete with most devices out there. It "sports a red-on-black color scheme not unlike LG’s popular Chocolate phone, but it’s larger, sporting a 2in widescreen LCD, the better to view Google’s web properties, accessed through a fast 3G connection," reports Reg Hardware’s Tony Smith. "The KU-580 has an FM radio and an MP3 player - controlled with dedicated playback keys - along with Bluetooth stereo and 3D sound enhancement," as well, according to Smith, and "[t]here’s a two-megapixel camera on the back and a smaller snapper on the front for video calls." This Google phone may not be amazing - and it may be suffering from a strange launch schedule - but it looks like Google’s sortie into cell phones will do quite well. To view article links go here: http://www.webpronews.co.uk/0622linksb.html ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* About the Author: Doug is a staff writer for WebProNews. 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