Ian Scott

Visitors can look around the Cabinet Room….Number 10 Downing Street has opened its famous front door to the public after more than 270 years, with a virtual tour for web users.

Visitors can look at rooms, find out historical information and click on objects such as paintings and furniture for extra details.

Tony Blair told the BBC the tour was “an excellent way of showing the tremendous history of this building”.Number 10 has been used as a home by prime ministers since the 1730s. [via BBC News]

AirportMonitor is a dynamic, interactive display of air traffic and flight information available on many airport Web sites. AirportMonitor tracks flights from approximately 100 miles from the terminal right down to the runway. View information such as flight origin, destination, aircraft type, altitude, and flight ID. AirportMonitor has a ten minute delay and filtered information for security purposes, but replays with full flight information are available for the previous three months. [AirportMonitor]

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…

Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England which is funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways:

• Providing network security services, including fraud detection, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
• Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the Internet.

Google has developed an extension for Firefox that integrates with the social network Joga and allows you to view the latest scores from the World Cup, videos of the best goals, and talk with other fans about your favorite teams.

You can view the score of the latest match in the status bar. The extension will alert you when a goal is scored.

A small Welsh computer company has won the right to include the word “spam” in a trademark, despite objections from a multi-national food corporation. NetBop Technologies developed a filter it called “bopspam” aimed at combating unwanted e-mails, known as spam.

But US-based Hormel Foods, which makes the meat product of the same name, initially objected to its registration.

Experts believe the Swansea company is the first in Europe to secure such a written trademark using the word spam. [Via BBC Technology]

All of the BBC’s 2006 World Cup matches will also be broadcast exclusively live on the BBC Sport website. The service will be available to UK broadband users and will mirror terrestrial and interactive coverage.

In addition there will be four-minute highlight packages from every single game of the tournament on demand. [Link: BBC World Cup]

Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, now keeps a diary on the intermablogomosphere. Snip:

In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute. The first browser was actually a browser/editor, which allowed one to edit any page, and save it back to the web if one had access rights.

Strangely enough, the web took off very much as a publishing medium, in which people edited offline. Bizarely, they were prepared to edit the funny angle brackets of HTML source, and didn’t demand a what you see is what you get editor. WWW was soon full of lots of interesting stuff, but not a space for communal design, for discource through communal authorship.

Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn’t crazy to think people needed a creative space.

"By all means visit Stonehenge and Buckingham Palace, but if you want to see what real life in Britain is all about, you have to go to the pub. Pub-going is by far the most popular native pastime. The 61,000 pubs in Britain have over 25 million loyal customers. Over three-quarters of the adult population go to pubs, and over a third are ‘regulars’, visiting the pub at least once a week. The pub is a central part of British life and culture. If you haven’t been to a pub, you haven’t seen Britain." [Link]

The venerable BBC has opened portions of their vast video archive for consumers to not only download, but create new video projects. What’s taking so long for advertisers to release components of their campaigns, such as jingles, graphics and more to citizen marketers? If the BBC can do it, so should marketers.