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Graham Steel has asked me what I think about this: BBC shows including EastEnders, Heroes and Never Mind The Buzzcocks will be available to watch live online from next week, the BBC has announced. BBC One and BBC Two will be streamed live - just as BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies and BBC News are already broadcast on their channel websites. And the answer is: nothing. I have zero to say on the subject.

Marking a song as "Loved" or a "Favorite" on music discovery apps like Last.fm and Pandora doesn't help you a whole lot when you want to hear them again. Free mashup site Favtape bridges the gaps...

The Wired How-To Wiki details how to stream music from your home computer or a web host to any PC over the internet. The guide suggests several methods for creating playlists, including M3U, XSPF,...

iPhone/iPod touch only: Free music discovery service Last.fm has launched its own iPhone/iPod touch 2.0 app, and it does exactly what you'd hope it would, with a few caveats. The interface is...

Cross-platform media player VLC is often referred to as the "Swiss Army knife of media applications" for good reason: Not only does VLC play nearly any file you throw at it (you even voted it the...

Windows only: Send videos, pictures and music between Windows PCs or any Universal Plug n' Play device (like a Playstation 3) with a simple Google Desktop Gadget called Google Media Server. The...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe Air): My Media Player, a free interface for the clips and full video content at Hulu.com, didn't quite make the cut for this week's 10 apps worth installing Air for, but it's...

Blogger David Glover built a DIY Slingbox out of the Mac mini under his television, a DV camera, and the freeware QuickTime Broadcaster application. What's it do? In a nutshell, David can stream live...

Add interactive comments to your YouTube videos with the new annotation feature. To annotate to any video you've uploaded, just head to your uploaded videos page and click the Edit annotations...

Need empirical proof that you're listening to the same old artists over and over on music discovery site Last.fm? LastGraph, a slick little API app coded by Andrew Godwin, takes your Last.fm username...

If you've got more than three computers you want to watch streaming video on with video rental service Netflix's "Watch Now" service, or you've just finished a re-format, you normally need to make a...

One intrepid Ubuntu hacker has written up a little script that allows your XBOX 360 to locate and stream music from any computer running Ubuntu. Downloading, setting up, and activating the script...

If you've got a home server running, or just a computer that controls music and video playback, the Simple Help blog has a guide that might make your digital life a little more convenient. Using the...

Webapp Muxtape lets you upload MP3's into a streaming playlist for anyone on the internet to hear. Register for a free Muxtape account, and start uploading MP3's (which you have permission to share),...

Accordent Technologies, a provider of enterprise-wide rich media communications solutions, has been selected by the editorial staff of Streaming Media Magazine as one of ten stand-out products of the streaming media industry in 2007.