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Science.tv is a virtual community for people interested in science. It enables users to upload videos and categorize them according to subject matter and intended audience.
science.tv was founded by Matt Thurling, a digital media pioneer and film-maker based in Bristol, England. [1] Research and development work began in 2005 [2] and the site was launched in December 2007. [1] Thurling writes the science.tv blog, where he sets out the vision for the site and invites feedback and suggestions for improvements. [3]
The .tv ("dot-tv") extension is a Top-level domain name, originally associated with the Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu. The entire domain was purchased from the islands' residents in 2000 [4] and the suffix is now increasingly being used for sites featuring, or relating to, video content. [5]
A look at the source code of science.tv reveals a front-end built with Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript. Video is delivered using the Adobe Flash codec. The back-end relies on a PHP interface to a mySQL content management system.
The focus of science.tv is user-generated content, and much of the content on the site is actually embedded from other video sites, including YouTube. The intended audience is broad, ranging from school students to academics and professional programme-makers. [6] Users are able to navigate for content via site-wide search, tags and by preset categories, which include: physics, chemistry and biology.
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BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on-demand video and radio services co-branded BBC iPlayer, the children's sites CBBC and CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize. The BBC has had an online presence supporting its TV and radio programmes and web-only initiatives since April 1994, but did not launch officially until 28 April 1997, following government approval to fund it by TV licence fee revenue as a service in its own right. Throughout its history, the online plans of the BBC have been subject to competition and complaint from its commercial rivals, which has resulted in various public consultations and government reviews to investigate their claims that its large presence and public funding distorts the UK market.
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Mininova was a website offering BitTorrent downloads. Mininova was once one of the largest sites offering torrents of copyrighted material, but in November 2009, following legal action in the Dutch courts, the site operators deleted all torrent files uploaded by regular users including torrents that enabled users to download copyrighted material.
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