In a move that seems to run contrary to recent trends, YouTube has
actually come to an agreement with a major content provider. The
BBC announced on Friday that it has struck a deal with the popular
video-sharing site that will see the UK based broadcasting company
share in advertising revenue generated by YouTube traffic.
After highly publicized breakdowns in negotiations with CBS and
Viacom, it looks like Google and YouTube have finally managed to
court a suitor into the video-sharing fold, avoiding any potential
copyright snares that might ensue with current BBC content on the
site.
The BBC’s Tim Weber has more on the particulars of the agreement:
“One of the BBC’s two entertainment channels will be a “public
service” proposition, featuring no advertising.”
“It will show clips like trailers and short features that add
value - for example, video diaries of David Tennant showing
viewers around the set of Dr Who or BBC correspondent Clive Myrie
explaining how difficult it is to report from the streets of
Baghdad.”
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WORD or WordPerfect document. Excel spreadsheet. PowerPoint presentation. These are familiar terms for anyone who has worked in an office in the past 15 years.
The software to produce these kinds of files can cost hundreds of dollars. OpenOffice.org is a completely free Open Source office software suite that not only can read and write to the various commercial office software file formats, but also writes to the now-standard OpenDocument format.
OpenOffice.org consists of six programs: Writer, for word processing; Calc, for spreadsheets; Impress, for presentations; Draw, for editing or creating graphics; Base, for using data-bases; and Math, for complex calculations and formulas.
International support is strong, with 93 different languages supported to some degree. OpenOffice.org will run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems.
OpenOffice.org was originally a German commercial software package called StarOffice, developed in the mid-1990s. Purchased by Sun Microsystems in 1999 to reduce their own in-house office software costs, the source code was made public a year later.
StarOffice still exists as a low-price commercial product from Sun, but it’s now based on the OpenOffice.org source code rather than the other way round, much like the way the Netscape web browser is now based on offshoot Mozilla’s Firefox web browser source code.
Using OpenOffice.org is similar to using any other office software package. The controls and options will be familiar to anyone with experience using other office software suites and there are online support forums and documentation.
Files created by other office software programs can be opened in OpenOffice.org and will look almost identical to the way they looked in the original program. Since the original commercial file formats are proprietary, meaning the details of the format are not public, there can be some minor differences in appearance and some files may need to be modified slightly to look the way they did in the original program.
It can take up to a minute for OpenOffice.org Calc to open complex spreadsheets created by other software. Ma-cros, or scripts designed to automate repetitive tasks, are currently not well supported though work on improving this situation is ongoing.
OpenOffice.org prefers to save files using the OpenDocument format or ODF, an open international standard that is designed to make it easier to access structured information such as document files and spreadsheets.
Governments and corporations around the world are switching over to the ODF standard since it means that information is not locked away in proprietary data formats only some programs can understand.
In particular, the archiving of information so that future software might easily access it is a driving force behind the growing movement toward ODF.
Even Microsoft is joining the bandwagon by paying for the development of an ODF plug-in for Microsoft Word. OpenOffice.org is a free download about 100 MB in size.
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News Released: November 20, 2006
(PRLEAP.COM) Sg Web Designer (www.sgwebdesigner.com), Singapore’s premier web hosting provider, have incorporated PayPal Payments for its web hosting subscribers to facilitate subscriptions.
Sg Web Designer said the addition of PayPal as another payment option for its customers was prompted by its ever growing customer base who would like to experience a hassle-free payment mode.
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